How to set Background Activity state as error

Question

HI Experts,
                In case of foregruond activities,i know we can make the status as ' in progress' by exit_cancelled.What I want to do is,in case of background activity, if some error comes,i should be able to generate some sort of message, seeing which administrator can come to know that there is some problem.If I use exit_cancelled ,that doesnt solve the purpose.I think something should be there but I'm totally unaware.Please help me know how is that done .

Answer 1

Hello Vivek,
position your cursor in the object builder on the method declaration; then push the button "Exception".
Declare an exception 9001 or greater, which is marked as "Application" or "System" error (both of these types will result in a error state of the work item, later on). Choose some useful message id.
In the implementation of the object's method, use the macro
exit_return 9001 <var1> <var2> <var3> <var4>.
If you're not using any variables, use SPACE.
Instead of setting the error state for a work item immediatly, you could also set the exception type to "temporary". If you do so, the workflow runtime system will re-execute the work item 3 times after every 20 minutes (if you're using the SAP standard settings). Only after the third exception the work item will be set to error state.
Best wishes,
Florin