Looping through Multiline list in Workflow

Question

We have a Workflow that sends an email with an Office document (ie., Excel) as an attachment to each Executing Service Engineer on service items that are relevant for planning. In an attempt to do that we loop through a multiline list, which is used to hold the relevant service items for processing.
1.     We created an activity step Initialize work items count to store the number of service work items, e.g. Work_items_count
2.     We use a loop step (loop until) to keep looping while work_items_count has a value greater than zero.
3.     Within the loop, we use another activity step Get install item ibase components that processes the first item of the multiline container element Work_items and returns the ibase components for the Executing Service Engineer. After processing has completed, we delete the item from Work_items and decrement the counter work_items_count by 1.
4.     As part of the final steps in the loop, an Excel document is created from a template using a standard object method WF_DOC-CREATE. The document is than converted to an SOFM object using standard object method WF_DOC-CREATE_SOFM, and than an email is generated with the SOFM object as an attachment using standard object method SELFITEM-SENDTASKDESCRIPTION.
The problem that’s occurring is that on the second loop pass, the status for activity step Get install item ibase components is set to ready expecting user intervention. I know that it’s a dialogue step, but why than does it execute seamlessly on the first loop pass? I’ve set the agent assignment on the Workflow and on the task to General task so that anybody can execute it so I don’t think it’s an agent assignment problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Do i need to use dynamice parallel processing in this case?

Answer 1

We have a Workflow that sends an email with an Office document (ie., Excel) as an attachment to each Executing Service Engineer on service items that are relevant for planning. In an attempt to do that we loop through a multiline list, which is used to hold the relevant service items for processing.
1.     We created an activity step Initialize work items count to store the number of service work items, e.g. Work_items_count
2.     We use a loop step (loop until) to keep looping while work_items_count has a value greater than zero.
3.     Within the loop, we use another activity step Get install item ibase components that processes the first item of the multiline container element Work_items and returns the ibase components for the Executing Service Engineer. After processing has completed, we delete the item from Work_items and decrement the counter work_items_count by 1.
4.     As part of the final steps in the loop, an Excel document is created from a template using a standard object method WF_DOC-CREATE. The document is than converted to an SOFM object using standard object method WF_DOC-CREATE_SOFM, and than an email is generated with the SOFM object as an attachment using standard object method SELFITEM-SENDTASKDESCRIPTION.
The problem that’s occurring is that on the second loop pass, the status for activity step Get install item ibase components is set to ready expecting user intervention. I know that it’s a dialogue step, but why than does it execute seamlessly on the first loop pass? I’ve set the agent assignment on the Workflow and on the task to General task so that anybody can execute it so I don’t think it’s an agent assignment problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Do i need to use dynamice parallel processing in this case?