How to capture workitem number

Question

Hi Experts,
We have custom workflow for creating material master. The main workflow contains different sub workflows and tasks. The workflow has 4 levels approvals and it has been triggering from Z transaction using event.
We have the requirement for report to know the Overview of all material requests currently open; (at which specific step are they pending?), Daily Overview  of  all requests currently open for more than 24 hours at a specific department: including assigned user.
But this data we are not capturing in the Z-tables. We can get it from workflow standard tables like SWWWHEAD. For all these standard table required workitem id which is unique and will dynamically generates the number.
My question is how to capture workitem number. Is there any function modules/reports/process to get the workitem number specific to object type/object key?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,

Answer 1

Hi ,
You can use the standard WAPI for getting the workitemids for specific material nos . But when you are going to  develop report for multiple material nos then you need to call the SAP WAPI in side LOOP and END LOOP , which will affect the performance  of the report .If the no of entries is less to be displayed in the report then you can use the SAP WAPI . Other wise you can try the below code for better performances -
Get all your material nos in one internal table  say ITAB1 .
IF ITAB1 IS NOT INITIAL .
    SELECT   top_wi_id wi_rh_task instid FROM sww_wi2obj INTO TABLE
    itab2  FOR ALL ENTRIES IN ITAB1
      WHERE instid = ITAB1-instid
                  AND catid = 'BO'
                  AND typeid = 'BUS1001006'
                  AND wi_release = '700'
                  AND wi_reltype = '99'
                  AND removed = '   ' .
ENDIF .
You will get the  workitemid of workflow specifc to all  materials in the internal table ITAB2 - The field is - top_wi_id
Just try this out . Hope it may help you .
Regards
Prabhudutta
Edited by: Prabhudutta Behera on Mar 13, 2009 12:20 PM