How to WCM Operaional WCD items in Ztable

Question

Hello
There is requirement to store WCM Operaional WCD items in Ztable at time of creation and saving after flagging a user status.
We are trying the BADI -
" BADI_WCM_OPWC" but it is not helpful. Can any body suggest any other method or enhancement spot.
Regards
Sanjeev Dhavan

Answer 1

There is requirement to store WCM Operaional WCD items in Ztable at time of creation and saving after flagging a user status.
It is not clear to me what you really mean by at time of creation and after flagging a user status. Do you mean when the items are physically saved to the database - or earlier when the user creates an item or changes the user status of an item? I'll assume you mean when the items are physically saved to the database.
The update of the database of WCD items is carried out by the function module WCFZ_WCAIT_UPDATE. There you could by enhancement include additional functionality to update your own Z table. A word of caution  :whilst the enhancement framework allows an implicit enhancement of function modules - any implicit enhancement is likely to result in a semantic modification to the SAP program that can have unintended side-effects.
I have spend many years working in WCM at a technical level and never ever had to do something like this. Nor would I.
However, if you chose to do this - you must be aware that you should do absolutely nothing to interrupt the SAP update process. You may or may not be in an update task e.g. you cannot be sure other database updates are yet completed. You must not use status management. You must not change any of the SAP data. You absolutely must not use Commit Work. You must ensure that a failure of your update does not interrupt the SAP database update (Use appropriate try... catch for database operations).