Mass processing of Workitems in UWL

Question

Hi, Gurus,
i configured UWL for mass processing of decision steps, as shown in this blog - Mass/Batch Processing of Work items in UWL
Now I need to pass some parameters for all selected workitems to workflow container, i need to transfer date to container of each selected wi.
Standard action  "submitUserDecisions" working good, and before approval it shows window with 'Are u sure?".  I need to replace this window
with own window, where the user can enter the date, and then pass it to container and complete tasks. Is it possible?
I'm not familiar with UWL, an have no idea how to do this...
Maybe I need to add button to view wich starts my WD4Abap application, but how I can pass selected items (items where user select custom attribute - radiobutton) into it? please help....
Thank you.
Regard's,
Mayorov Oleg.

Answer 1

Hi,
Interesting question. I am a bit sceptical about that this would work. I see the following things that you should be able to achieve:
-You need to have your own custom application instead of the standard pop-up (somehow implemented within submitUserDecisions) -> might be difficult/impossible(?)
-You need to add a new container element to the task that will take the date value -> easy
-You should be able to transfer the value entered by the user to the container element -> again I see this difficult. Event with standard "single" user decision you don't have this kind of functionality (well you have an option to use a free text box, but you cannot for example define a date field), so I don't understand how SAP would support something like that with this mass approval functionality.
Not much help, but at least something. Maybe I would start investigating that what happens when you press the mass approval button (probably some function module is executed). Finally I guess that you should somehow be able to build your custom action & action handler, and when you would press that, a web dynpro application would pop-up, etc. I am not sure whether this is even possible. I hope someone else will have better ideas.
Regards,
Karri