MDM Workflow and LDAP
Hi Junta,
We are on MDM 5.5 SP5 Patch2. Our MDM server is connected to LDAP for Authentication and Role to User assignment is stored in LDAP.
Problem 1. Check in/ Chek out is not working in the repository. I think this is a known problem and rectified in SP6. Correct me if I am wrong.
Problem2. I have created workflow. I am trying to assign a role to one of the step. This workflow checks out the record and pushes it to steps. When I trigger the workflow on a record, this gives me error saying that, a preluanched job could not be initiated. Is this because of the problem 1.
How does workflow resolves the users from the role to send the tasks to? Does it talk to LDAP and finds the assignments? Or it expects the assignments to be local on MDM repository.
After LDAP connection and restart of the MDM server, I lost all my users in the assignment list when I try to assign the user to the step instead of role. Any comments / solution.
Thanks,
Amber
Hi,
I think your issue is item visibility in Search UI. What can you see in search UI? Can you see Category and Supplier?
If approval is not required, you do not need to create any workflow.
I have done 3 customer projects but none of them use item approval because items are validated by Excel Macro when they get data from supplier.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/45/e9d8ef302704aae10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/45/efc5a9348a3112e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
Regards,
Masa
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