HFM - Process Control

Hi
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to get the process flow history details on Hyperion Smartview.
For example: Process Control - Entity promotes data to submitted - the date and time of this.
Regards

This is not possible using the "out of the box" features. Certainly the HFM API would allow you access to the process management details, but I don't personally know how this would be accessed from smart view. Likewise, Financial Reporting does not provide this detail either since the ADM driver for HFM does not support process management detail.
--Chris

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HFM Process Control and Process Flow History

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When I review the Process Flow History for top parent members of the consolidation, the POV shows <Scenario> <Year> <Period> <Entity> <Entity Currency>. For all other applications and entities, the <Entity Currency> member shows but I've built a new application and the <Entity Currency> shows as "EUR Total" (EUR is one of the currencies) except that EUR is not the default currency of application or the entity's value. Could anyone explain to me why it would show that way or where it could be coming from?
I'm using HFM v11.1.1.3.
Thanks in advance.

did you add new metadata?

HFM process control alerting only while submitting

Hi,
I want to use the email alerting for process management. All settings are done and everything works fine.
But I want to limit the alerting to the submit process. It means, the system should send a mail only if the user submits the process to the admin.
There are no settings in Shared Services or anywhere!!?
Is it possible to manipulate a asp or jsp file to limit this functionality?
Version is 11.1.1.3
Thanks in advance!
Stefan
Edited by: StLanger on Jul 25, 2012 4:59 AM

Hi,
thanks, but this is not my problem.
The system only should send a message if the status is changing to "Submitted".
Example: User Frank has the roles Reviewer3 and Submitter. Normally he gets 2 mails. The first one if the process switch to RL3 and the second if the process switch to Submitted. But he dont want a mail if the process switch to RL3, only if Submitted.
Is there a way to do this? Can i "hack" a special asp file?
Edited by: StLanger on 25.07.2012 11:32

Admin unable to reject entities in process control/process management

Hi this is in HFM v 11.1.2.1. We have a small hierarchy which has one security class assigned to all seven entities. The end user sees that all entities except the top parent are "green" when she looks at it in the process control screen. The top parent, however, is orange. She can't consolidate it although she has rights. She can calculate and consolidate all of the entities and sub-parents below. Even though the top parent is orange, she can promote it, as well as all of it's children. Just to make this even more interesting, the administrator is UNABLE to reject the base entities in this structure back to First Pass - instead they remain at Review Level 1. Has anybody heard of bugs in the Process Control for this version (11.1.2.1)? Thanks for your help.

For your rejection concerns, there are instances wherein the users tried to expressly promote an entity, at times including its base level members to a higher review level. Doing so makes it hard to reject. As a suggestion, it is always a best practice to promote entities one step at a time. In the aspect of rejecting, verify if you have the EPM Utilities Menu enabled, go to Auto Promote and reject.

Validation Account in Process Control

Hi,
Every time I try to enter in Process Control in a application in HFM 9.3.3 receive this error:
"Cannot perform process flow action because the Validation Account is invalid. ALL cannot be specified as a top member for the Validation Account."
Can anyone help me, please?
Thanks

In fact, they are clear, but in all accounts the property SubmissionGroup is set with 1 as default. And the other apps that work in this same environment have an account assigned to the property ValidationAccount. The question is: Isn't it mandatory to have an Account assigned to this property to access ProcessControl?
Thanks again.

Error when attaching Documents during Process Control to Submit Data

Hi,
In HFM 411 the user's were able to attach documents (that were earlier uploaded to Custom Documents) in the Process Control while submitting the Data. In 931 they receive an error message that says it is unable to change the review level. However tehy are able to submit the data without attaching documents.
The security set-up seems to be fine, as the admin receives an error message as well, but this time it says "Invalid Javascript returned by the server".
Anyone any idea?
Thank you so much for your help.

Hi,
I (as administrator) manage to attach document at every step of review level process.
Can you check that MaxNumDocAttachments and MaxDocAttachmentSize are correctly set up in the metadata (application settings).
Besides HFM User Guide stands : "To attach or extract any custom documents to or from the server, you must be assigned the Manage Custom Documents security role."
Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Lionel.

Unable to open data process control

Hi,
While I open Data Process Control, it prompt error as below. How to fix it?
An error occurred while initializing POV data. Confirm that metadata has been loaded and that you have sufficient security rights.+

Hi
According to Oracle Support, the cause of the issue is:
The file HsvWebSessionWSP.dll was not registered properly. This file will be in HFM Webserver under the location <MiddlewareHome>\EPMSystem11R1\products\FinancialManagement\WebServices.
And the solution is:
Re-registering the HsvWebSessionWSP.dll file should resolve the issue, by using this command: regsvr32 "<MiddlewareHome>\EPMSystem11R1\products\FinancialManagement\WebServices\HsvWebSessionWSP.dll"
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Lu

Phased Submission (Process Control)

Hi,
I want to use the phases submission in process control and I have a problem regarding the submission group and the order in phased submission ...
In application settings is submission phase activated for accounts, custom1 and custom 4.
The follwoing issue ...
Phase 1:
Accounts: Gross Margin (from P&L) --> Group 10
Custom1: [None] --> Group 15
Custom4: Input1 --> Group 50
Phase 2:
Accounts: Rest of P&L --> Group 20
Custom1: [None] --> Group 15
Custom4: Input1 --> Group 50
Accounts: Balance Sheet --> Group 30
Custom1: Movements --> Group 30
Custom4: Input1 --> Group 50
Phase 3:
Accounts: P&L --> Group ??
Custom1: CostCenter --> Group 45
Custom4: Input2 --> Group 60
How can I do it???
Thanks for help!
Stefan
Edited by: tyranny242 on Oct 19, 2010 12:08 PM

So I understand your problem, I'm just really confused as to how that happened. Can you share the Process History of the two phases(Feel free to remove names, the times are the important parts).
To go from Published in Phase 1 to RL3 means that you were somehow able to reject Phase 1 twice. Either that, or Submitted is not considered higher than RL 3.
Try seeing if you can reject phase 1 down another level and then reject Phase 2. I don't know if HFM considers Submitted to be the 2nd highest RL or not, but if it doesn't, then this might work.
Again, the process history for the entity would help greatly.

Issue in Process Controlled workflow for Shopping cart in Quality system.

Hello All,
I ahve configured a Process controlled workflow in SRM 7.0 with custom resolver, and I am facing an issue taht the Workflow works well in Development but in Quality the approvers are dropped after SC is ordered in Quality system.
The SC Workflow drops the approvers picked up from the Interface method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVERGET_AREA_TO_ITEM_MAP and IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVERGET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID of BADI /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER. The approvers can be seen in the shopping cart Approval preview Tab until the SC is ordered.
I have compared the OSS notes relevant for Workflow, all of them have been transported, Also I compared and checked general Workflow settings, BRF Config and Process level settings in Dev and Quality, everything is same.
Also while debugging; the approvers can be seen in the decision set table in the create_process_forecast method of class /SAPSRM/CL_WF_PROCESS_MANAGER.
Kindly let me know what else i can check to find the root cause.
Thank you in advance for help!
Regards
Prasuna.

Hello Vinita;
Thanks for the input and sorry for the not so "ASAP" reply;
From what I'm seeing in from your 2 screenshot, i strongly believe that the problem is even before the Z implementation /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID (in which the FM i ZSRM_GET_USER_FROM_PGRP is called. I think the problem could be in the process level determination ZSRM_WF_BRF_0EXP000_SC_APP100. Let me explain:
In your cases where not buyer is determined, in the approval tab there is not even a process level for buyer approval. If the problem were indeed in the implementation /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID then the process level would be there, but the system will display, instead of the name of the buyer(if the buyer determination fails) a red label with the message: "With the strategy "Buyer determination" an approver could not be determined (or something like that..please check the image at the end of the text)".
I can propose a way to discard this: Implement the method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_FALLBACK_AGENTS of class ZCL_BADI_SC_WC (in case you didn't know, in this method you can specify an "default" approver in case that the determination of approver in GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID fails). The idea is to specify an default approval and see how it behaves:
If the user you indicated in the method GET_FALLBACK_AGENTS appears as approver, then yes, the problem is arises from implementation GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID, in which case it could be a data problem (peharps in pposa_bbp?). You could also check in TX SU53 with the users with this problem to see if there's a missing authorization objetc.
If, in the other hand, the "default" approver is not shown, it means that the process level buyer determination is not even called, so you should check in more detail ZSRM_WF_BRF_0EXP000_SC_APP100 and /SAPSRM/CL_WF_PROCESS_MANAGER > Determine process restart –method ----- (i have never used this method, so i could not tell if it could be the source of the problem).
Also, you could implement the method GET_FALLBACK_AGENTS in this way so the default approver would be the WF administrator indicated in the customizing (or you could just append directly any user you want):
METHOD /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_FALLBACK_AGENTS.
   DATA: lv_admin_expr TYPE swd_shead-admin_expr,
         lv_admin      TYPE swd_shead-wfi_admin,
         lv_admin_type TYPE sy-input,
         ls_agent      TYPE /sapsrm/s_wf_approver.
   CALL FUNCTION 'SWD_WF_DEFINITION_ADMIN_GET'
     IMPORTING
       default_admin_expr = lv_admin_expr
       default_admin      = lv_admin
       default_admin_type = lv_admin_type.
   ls_agent-approver_id = lv_admin.
   APPEND ls_agent TO rt_agent.
ENDMETHOD.
Error of agent determination:
Please let me know the result of the test with the implementation of method GET_FALLBACK_AGENT. By doing this we could ensure if really the problem is in method GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID or before. I just made the test in our system and I'm almost sure that you wont get the default approver, but i could be wrong.
Any question please let me know.
Best regards
Cristian R.

SRM 7.0 Process-Controlled (BRF) Workflow -- Error message to Shopping Cart

I am modifying a BRF Expression used to calculate approval levels. During this calculation, I may run into error conditions (e.g. Currency tranlsation not found) that I want to display to the user (in the Shopping Cart).
I have tried raising the following exceptions:
/sapsrm/CX_WF_RULE_ERROR.
/sapsrm/CX_WF_RULE_ABORT.
Raising these exceptions do result in SLG1 log entries being written, but the User is not informed of the error (ie. at top of shopping cart where other messages display).
I can probably jump out of the Webdynrpo to read logs, but thought there MUST be some standard way of passing error conditions from the BRF, back to WF, and then back to the Webdynpro Window.
Anybody raise error messages back to the online user from Process-Controlled Workflow?
Thanks,
- Tim

>
Saravanan Dharmaraj wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I am not sure about your business requirement, but if you want to display custom error message while user create a SC, SAP has provided a standard BADI - BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI. You can implement this Badi to raise a custom error,warning message. You can build your brf logic in the BADI implementation..
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Saravanan Dharmaraj.
Hi Saravanan,
I am actually modifying the Approval Limit Checks (for multi-currency translations) that you recently coded in Maryland. It can occur that errors occur in determining limits (new Currency translation I just added), or during the lookup of agents (ie user config is inconsistent).
In these cases, I can make the shopping cart Dump, by raising untrapped error messages, or assertions. However, I would like to raise exceptions that get trapped (such as the ones I identified in original post), and then make their way to the shopping cart.
Unless I am missing something, I don't think the WF BADIs, or BRF are gonna communicate errors back to the shopping cart, even though these components are called during cart creation and checks.
I realize that I can recode the Agent Determination BADIs, BRF calls, or even read BRF logs within BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI. I mentioned this in my original posting as well.
Anyway, any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
- Tim

Workflow error in fork step, process control, wait event

I am using fork step in workflow which has 2 parallel branches. In 1st branch i have a user decision step followed by a task for posting PO document in case of approval. In the 2nd branch of fork step I have a wait step to wait for an event followed by the same task for posting document with a process control step after that in the end to cancel the workitem(workitem generated by user decision step in the 1st branch of fork). I created the event by using a custom BOR object.
After the fork step is triggered, i have both a wait event running and workitem generated. When i raise the wait event from SWUE by entering the event, object key etc it works fine i.e., the workitem in the other branch is set of logically deleted and workflow ends.
But if the wait event is triggered from the program i.e., using FM SWW_WI_CREATE_VIA_EVENT, both get an error message in workflow log(SWIA). The message is: Error when executing the binding between work item 000000XXXXXX and flow item 000000XXXXXX where workitem number is the workitem id of the posting document task and flow item id is the workflow parent id

hi,
message is self explanatory.
Activate the event trace SWELS, then do the event with SWUE and within your program (als please use SAP_WAPI function modules).
Now compare the 2 events in SWEL to see what the differences are .
Kind regards, Rob Dielemans

Approver not determined process controlled workflow in SAP SRM 7.0

Hello all,
I have setup process controlled workflow in SAP SRM 7.0 EHP3 for shopping cart approval.
I have 4 approval levels.
I have used item-based Decision for entire document because for some items i want system approval.
In implementation of BADI /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER, in the method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_AREA_TO_ITEM_MAP, i am skipping the items for which i want system approval.
Also in method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID of BADI implementation class, i am keeping the approver table empty for the step which i want system approval.
For example i have 1 item in shopping cart and for 1st step, based on some accouting criteria, i want system approval for 1st level and the workitem should go directly to 2 approval step when shopping cart is ordered. This is not happening.
But if i have multiple items, and one item should have system approval based on some criteria and the 1st approval level should be system approval and other item should go to the 1st approver. This is happening and showing 'system' approver for item1 and 'appr_xyz' for item 2.
For shopping cart having only 1 item, If i approve the shopping cart in this state only, it doesn't go to any approver and is not usable.
am i missing anything in BADI /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER??
Please let me know.
Regards,
Yayati Ekbote

Hi Adrian,
Yes it is possible to display custom workflows in the Universal Worklist, However, I am not sure what you are trying to do with a routing table. If the workitems are of type decision, you can use UserDecisionHandler (action handler) configured in the XML file to use the Approve/Reject functionality - we are talking about webflow connector here correct? R/3 connector?
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Dead Line Monitoring for Shopping cart approval(SRM 7.0 Process controlled)

Hi Friends,
I am using SRM 7.0 Process controlled Workflow. I need to do below.
Dead Line Monitoring details are given below.
If the approval workitem is not addressed in 3 business days by Approver, the approver would get reminder email notification. If approval Workitem is not addressed in 5 business days by the approver, then an email notification is sent to requester,approver and the workflow administrator.
How to obtain this. Please help me.
Thanks,
Balaji.T.

Hi Masa,
Thank you for your input.
You mean, shall we use BADI BBP_ALERTING for deadline monitoring.?
Infact, i have used
SRM Server->Cross-Application Basic Settings=>Event and Event Schema for Alert Management->Define Event Schema
In that i specified
WF_COMPL_LATEST_END->Message(low)->APPROVAL_DEADL_NOTIFIC_NEW : 24 hours.
But it is not triggering for dead line Monitoring(24 hours Later).
If any body faces this same problem, Please let me know.
Thanks,
Balaji.T.

Process-controlled workflow hang due to dump

Hi all,
due to a temporary dump in an SRM 7 system, some document-related workflows are stucked... in other terms, these workflow processes have been started, the the dump occoured and by now, they seems to be stucked in "in process" state.
Tecnically, these are not workflow in error, so SWI2_DIAG is not helpful.
We'd like to unlock this situation and -eventually- restart the workflow process. How can we do it?
Thanks in advance for your help and support.
edit: system dump is now solved, which means, triggering the same workflow process will result in a success.
Edited by: Matteo Montalto on Jun 30, 2011 4:34 PM

Ok. There used to be OSS Note 1458380 - Process Controlled Workflow Restart Program, if the document is in "Awaiting Approval" Status.
Or do the manual restart by using tcode SWUE (Event trigger)
Object Category - ABAP Class
Object Type - /SAPSRM/CL_WF_PDO_SC
Event - READY_FOR_WORKFLOW
Object Key - <DOCUMENT_GUID>
Event Parameter - <SC Creator User ID>
and Click "Create Event" button
Use SWI1 to check whether the event is created and see whether the document is submitted for workflow triggering or use SWI6 to check for that SC document

Process Controlled workflow

Hello experts,
We are trying to use process controlled work flow for SC approval. Approval process will be multiple based on the amount of shopping cart. Somebody has already activated BC set for one step approval in the system. If i want to have my own process schema ( multiple approval ),what i supposed to do? Do i delete the existing schema attached to BUS2121 or create my own schema ?
How system will determine which schema needs to be picked up after creation of SC?
Regards,
Sagar

Hello Bharat,
Thanx for reply.
I have below cases for process controlled workflow.
1. No approval
2. One step approval
3.Multi level approval.
All the above scenario will be decided based on the Z field which we have added to SC header. My understanding in this case is to have three process schema for above cases. Name of schema will be decided by Evaluation ID.
Once the schema is decided then i need to define process level for each process schema.
Please let me know if i am on the right track??
Regards,
Sagar

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