Parallel approvals in the workflow
Hi,
Sorry, i am deleting this question as its already answered in a different thread.
Thank you.
Jim
Edited by: user578186 on May 25, 2009 7:15 AM
If you do not expand the role for a notification activity, Oracle Workflow sends one copy of the notification message to the assigned performer role and that notification is visible in the notification queue of all the users in that role. If one user in that role responds to or closes that notification, the notification is removed from the notification queue of all other users in that role. The flow will continue thereafter.
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How to hold save operation till the workflow approvals are completed ?
Hello,
The requirement is that on change of certain fields in customer master , an approval workflow should trigger and only after the chain of approvals is completed the change in customer master should be saved.
If standard provides the field eg in SWEC then its fine but otherwise is the following approach correct ?
1. Find a suitable user exit on save action
2. Determine whether the required field is changed or not using the std change history tables
3. if yes, trigger a custom event for the business object which wud be already linked to workflow.
that way the workflow will be triggered
4. now trigger another custom event in the workflow after all the approvals are completed
5. induce a wait for event for this approval-completed event in the user exit. so that till the time this event is generated, user exit processing is not completed (find if there is function module for wait event OR keep infinite loop)
Is this approach correct because its complete 'home-made' design and doesnt look very good to keep the user exit waiting for entire workflow which mite extend to even several days.
what should be the solution for this ?
thank you
BHi:
1. Find a suitable exit or BAdI on save action (even Enhancement point)
2. Check whether the required fields are changed or not, if yes- then display an information message saying, "Approval WF process started for the customer: XXXXX". Then after displaying the information message, system needs to behave like as an error mesaage was showned.
I mean, you need to come out of the current standard screen and the whole std. program (little bit tricky but it is possible to do), so we are not saving the data to database table.
3. Then after all approvals in WF, use std. FM or BAPI to update database tables for the changed data.
Vinoth -
Payroll area locked.How to Stop the workflow during this period ?
Dear experts,
In the travel workflows, after all the approvals, there is a standard task(Custom) with a custom method(BUS2089 Enhanced).
This method updates the infotype 2002 (Attendances). This works fine for the whole month except during the payroll run which will be for 3-4 days after 20th of every month.
We have maintained the exception for this when the control record is in the status '1' or '4', by passing a temporary error to the workflow.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM t569v WHERE abkrs = 'Z0'.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0 AND ( t569v-state EQ '1' OR
t569v-state EQ '4' ).
return-message_v1 = 'Employee Master data locked for Payroll'.
exit_return 1001 return-message_v1 return-message_v2
return-message_v3 return-message_v4.
As i understand the workflows can be restarted after solving the temporary errors.But this Temp error will only be solved after the payroll record is becomes 'Exit Payroll'.
The system attempts for 3 times in the period of 30 minutes and then the tempoarry error becomes a permanent error and this way the workflows goes into a permanent error which cannot be restarted even after the payroll is exit.Due to this may workflows are unable to update the Infotyp 2002 however their trips are approved at all levels.
This counter of 3 times and 30 minutes, I belive the system is taking from the error monitoring program (RSWWERRE / SWWERRE) in SWU3.
I am thinking of putting the workflow into 'Wait' state till the period when the Payroll is locked. This way , we can avoid the workflow even from going into temporary error.
Can anyone help in this regard ? Do we need to add a WAIT step in the WF Definition or control in the method code itself ?
Does WAIT UNTIL (ABAP Keyword) works for 3-4 days of payroll run if we implement in the method code itself?
-Anwar
Edited by: Sameer Anwar on Aug 20, 2011 9:44 AM
Edited by: Sameer Anwar on Aug 20, 2011 9:45 AMHi Sameer,
But , Can you pls put some more information on why we need to avoid WAIT UNTIL in Tthe ABAP ?
Wait Steps are only used where you have 1 event which the workflow would expect ...moreover this would require more effort in terms of implementation...( you will have to create an event manually after your payroll is open).
I would suggest create an virtual attrubute of the BO which will populate a whetherr the Payroll is locked or unlocked... then use this attribute as a start condition in the conditions tab of your step. this would stop the workflow until the payrol is open...
Regards
Gautam
Edited by: gautam maini on Aug 20, 2011 2:34 PM
Edited by: gautam maini on Aug 20, 2011 2:35 PM -
OIM 11g R1. Issue with parallel participant type approval workflow.
Hi All,
I have a request level approval with the human task assignment participant type set to parallel. There will be two participants in the workflow with approve and reject having outcome value as 50 each. When i submit a request, i can see the both the request is properly allocated to both the users. But when i log in with the individual users and search the approval tasks in the self service page, i cant see it properly assigned.
In the approval tasks table, i cant see the values for the following columns request ID, request type, beneficiary, request target. Whereas i can see the value for the requester as "Anonymour user" and it is assigned to a proper user. When i try to approve, i get the following error in the console.
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<25 Nov, 2012 1:49:09 PM IST> <Warning> <oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit
.rich.NavigationPaneRenderer> <BEA-000000> <ILLEGAL_COMPONENT_HIERARCHY : A chil
d component that is not a commandNavigationItem (or a separator when hint=choice
) was found.>
<25 Nov, 2012 2:22:57 PM IST> <Error> <oracle.iam.request.impl> <IAM-2050076> <N
o request found with the request ID .>
<25 Nov, 2012 2:22:57 PM IST> <Error> <oracle.iam.tasklist.agentry.task> <IAM-20
60009> <Error occurred while approving task from BPEL>
<25 Nov, 2012 2:22:57 PM IST> <Error> <oracle.iam.tasklist.agentry.task> <IAM-20
60013> <Exception thrown:
oracle.iam.request.exception.RequestServiceException: IAM-2050076:No request fou
nd with the request ID .
at oracle.iam.request.repository.RequestRepository.getRequestClone(Reque
stRepository.java:891)
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tServiceImpl.java:94)
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Source)
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inpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:310)
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dInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)
at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMetho
dInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)
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ctionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:131)
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dInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
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orImpl.visit(MethodInvocationVisitorImpl.java:37)
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allback(EnvironmentInterceptorCallbackImpl.java:54)
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dInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
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Please share any thoughts on this.
Thanks,
SriniHi Kevin,
Thanks a lot for the response. But, when i deployed the composite SAR in to the server from Jdeveloper, i checked the option to "Overwrite any existing composite with same revision ID". SO, i used the same revision ID (Say 1.0), will this also need to be disabled?
Thanks,
Srini -
How to implement this scenerio in the workflow - More details given Inside?
We are implementing a simple PO release workflow in ECC 5.0. The workflow just has a decision step and a release step. We have implemented the workflow in our system and it seems to be working fine.
Problem Statement:
The client has many Purchase Order Administrators or Purchasing clerks who needs to approve the PO. But the client does not have many user logins or license to have more users in SAP. So they are checking if it is possible to have the workflow in SAP but to execute the workflow from outside SAP by using one user login.
To be more specific, Here is what they are asking.
1). They want that SAP must send a work item to their lotus notes inbox with a URL link in the email.
2). The user will open the email from Lotus notes and then click on the URL link which might be something similar to the decision work item. The user will select YES or NO which is similar to clicking approve or reject
3). Once the user has made a decision by clicking on the URL in the email they want that the PO should be released in SAP with a common user ID say WF-BATCH.
4). We cannot use Extended notification as we would like to have only one user WF-BATCH for approval but send emails to all the Purchasing clerks. I believe that the extended notifications can only send emails to the id configured in the user master. Since the client wants to have only one user in SAP but many PO approvers outside SAP.
My questions:
1). Can we configure extended notifications in workflow such that the system sends emails to different purchasing clerks in their lotus notes inbox? If yes then how can I configure that?
2). If it is not possible then how do we achieve the requirement from outside SAP but still have the workflow?
3). If we need to implement some external bespoke solutions then what all things would be involved? Any guidance on how this scenario can be achieved and what issues we may have?
4). How can we trigger a workitem from outside SAP but still make it work as if it would have been triggered from SAP. Can we call some RFC FM to trigger the workitem and force a single user id?
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.
any idea guys?
Edited by: Workflow learner on Jul 28, 2008 11:22 AMWell, apart from the obvious licensing issues which you should definitely discuss with your account manager, that's going to fail any audit. The 'signature' on the approval is the user's login, so if approvals are done by a common userid you will need to put a new authentication mechanism in place.
The two major issues are:
Forwarding - how do you control someone forwarding it to someone else to approve?
Traceability - how can you prove who really approved it?
This is not a small project. Much of this depends on your internal infrastructure, you will need to get Basis, Security, Networks, and Mail people involved, we cannot really help you much at this point.
Sorry it's not the answer you want to hear.
Good luck,
Mike -
Hi All,
I have a question from my fellow colleague which I am not being able to respond to clearly. Hope someone can help me.
The question is about the usage of Parallel Approvals.
Can Parallel Approvals work ONLY when there is an approval group with serial also defined ?
Or do they work when Approvals are static ? Or with Single/Multiple Approval Groups ?
Thks
RaviCheck these reference Docs
Configuring Parallel Approvers Notification [ID 471125.1]
How To Set Parallel Approvers In AME for SSHR? [ID 389753.1]
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Dynamic parallel processing of the same object using asynchronous method
Hi,
Please can anyone help me?
I have to send the same DMS document to several agents for parallel processing. The number of agents is not known until runtime. Each of them should process the document and at least change the status of it. In next step I check if he has changed it.
I use dynamic parallel processing of subworkflows. Key task of this subworkflow uses standard method of object DRAW - DOCUMENT.EDIT (standard transaction CV02N) which is asynchronous. The task is finished by event DOCUMENT.CHANGED.
During the parallel processing the appropriate number of workitems is generated. However, when the agent who processes the document as first completes his workitem the event DOCUMENT.CHANGED is generated and all parallel workitems are completed, even those of other agents that were not processed yet.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Eva VahalovaHi all,
The process is used to approve incoming invoices. Each scanned invoice is attached to a DMS document and than sent to one or several agents in parallel. People from several departments can approve the same invoice for instance energy or mobile phone costs. We have no HR module fully implemented. Each agent may write some remarks and has to sets the document status to either approved or rejected. This status is temporary therefore the others see the original status for approving.
The process of incoming invoices was implemented by SAP consultants in 2003 on 4.6B and now runs on our 4.7 system. Now new company was established running on a new SAP system ECC 6.0 and our accountant department and some agents will deal with invoices in both systems. Therefore, the process should appear the same or at least very similar. The majority of the old process was realized by programming while I would like to use workflow features that are available now and reduce the programming part.
As I see, I will have to choose one of the solutions that Arghadip suggested.
I wonder if there is a possibility to use asynchronous method and control the end of each work item by means of u201CComplete Work Itemu201D or u201CComplete executionu201D Conditions. I have never used them and I do not know how they work and what condition to use. Maybe program exit might be used as well. While controlling the agents I think I will have to do some programming anyway because the work item can be finished by a substitute too.
Thanks for your help.
Eva -
Parallel Approvals -- How to send Input to Data preparation process
Hello,
I have created a parallel process with using gateways to send a form through 8 concurrent approvals; the problem is that the form only gets updated with the formdata of the quickest completed route; so ultimately data is lost from some branches when the gateway closes. (Rather than acting more so like a database where fields are locked while in use and updated with no data lost).
So I have looked into having each approval task (8 in total) use a custom action profile with a custom 'Data preparation process' which will run when a user opens the task and on the fly it will then load the latest form data (to minimize the risk of data loss; still not perfect though). But in order to do this I need to be able to pass the form data into the 'Data Preparation Process'; how can I do this?
So to summarize, 1) how do I pass variables (such as formdata) into the data preparation process; and 2) is there a better approach for parallel approvals?
Thank you everyone.Nith,
Thank you for setting me in the right direction.
How do I map the fields from the query into the xmlPrepareData output variable?
My query looks like this (so far):
Then I map that `initformvariable` to the taskContext - @InputDocument variable (then pass that to xmlParepareData)
No luck on it working; where am I going wrong? -
Approval Preview when the workflow is finished
Hello,
We have implemented the BADI to get multiple level approvals in Shopping Carts. When we display the approvers via Approval Preview the system works fine if the workflow is in process, but when the workflow is finished we donu2019t display anything.
We have SRM 4.00 and the support package SAPKIBKS13 for SRM_SERVER 500
Thanks in advance, Juan ManuelHi,
Please check for following excrepts from SAP help sites:
1. OSS Note 1093840, content here may help to debug.
2. You are using ad hoc agent objects to determine your agents, do not use rules directly as this limits the functionality
available especially during approval preview and can have knock on effects in the display
3. Mark any steps you have added that are not approval steps as "step not in workflow log" - the applet display is based on
the graphical workflow log and unexpected steps can cause unexpected effects in the applet display
4. Make sure you follow the same pattern based approach if you are adding extra approval steps, e.g. make sure the approval
step itself has the same group name as the other approval steps
Also additionaly check for workflow log(SWi6) . If WF is working fine.
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Parallel Approvals in R12 iProcurement
Has anyone set-up the AME for parallel requisition approvals in R12? New AME functionality for R12 indicates that parallel approvals should work (see note 362160.1), however the solution doesn't seem to work properly.
Take the example outlined in the above note:
Example
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Created Purchasing Requisition (PR) Approval Rules with PO Cost Center of Line Item Attribute.
Rule#1 is defined for Cost Center = 510
Rule#2 is defined for Cost Center = 520
And each Rule has a different chain-of-authority.
Approvers of 510 are 1) John and then 2) Jim
Approvers of 520 are 1) Ben and then 2) Brown.
Create a PR and allocate expenses to 510 and 520 cost center, when submitting for approval, the PR was sent to John and Jim, then was sent to Ben and Brown respectively. There are 4 serial levels of approval required. This is the current functionality.
Expect that AME should notify to John and Ben to approve the PR at the same time (instead of doing the entire approval list of 4 approvers in serial like is currently done) and then once John approves approval notification is sent to Jim (for Cost Center 510 approval) and once Ben approves approval notification is sent to Brown (for Cost Center 520 approval).
When we set this up, the AME does indeed notify John and Ben as expected, however, if Ben is the first person to approve the PR, an approval notification is not sent to Brown until John and Jim have both approved it. For true parallel approvals, I'd expect Brown to receive a notification after Ben's approval, regardless of the actions of John and Jim.
Does anyone know if this is standard functionality, or if it's possible to configure the AME so that parallel approvals works properly?Yes, there are two lines, with John and Jim are on one line, and Ben and Brown on the another. The set-up works becuase John and Ben are notified in parallel. The issue is that if Ben approves, a notification is not sent to Brown until Jim approves. It seems that the AME waits for the first line to complete before it progresses the second line. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced the same problem or been able to fix it.
Thx -
Short Dump when activating the Workflow
Hi,
I have a problem, when i try to activate the workflow I get a short dump with the error "SYSTEM_NO_ROLL". As I understand the error is because there is no enough memory to the transaction, this is not the case i have checked that, so the error must be from my workflow definition or from the SAP it self.
Here goes the description:
The location of the error is in the method "FIND_ELEMENTS" of class "CL_SWF_CNT_CONTAINER". By this I understand that the error was with my container elements in the workflow but I have reviewed all my elements and I cant find any fault element or error. I can check the definition but if i try to activate it i get the short dump.
In the Calls Stack, there is +/- 69297 calls to the above method, because that method is recursive the transaction just consume all the memory and then i get short dump.
I use many multi line elements, for parallel processing with block step mostly, maybe its my container elements but i can find no wrong bindings or faulty elements.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Diogo Silva.Hi,
Ok didn't know, thanks for the help, i will post in the other section.
PS: Could you tell me how to reach that component, I tried but without success.
Regards,
Diogo Silva.
Edited by: DiogoSilva on Jun 15, 2011 7:01 PM -
Attach the workflow process to portlet pages
Hi,
I would like to know the steps to attach the workflow process to portlet pages.
-- BabuWhat do you mean by "attach the workflow process to portlet pages"
if you mean to have approval withing pages this can be done using teh approvals and notifications functionality built in within portal and if you mean attaching external workflows from oracle portal or BPEl, that can also be done. -
I started getting these errors on one of my lists that has several workflows running on it. The strange thing is it has been running pretty much error free for 1.5 years and we have not made any changes to the workflows and no updates have been applied prior
to the errors staring.
It is typically always the same workflow but it doesn't always happen, only some of the newly added list items will error. If I simply cancel the current instance and manually start it again it runs fine to completion and it only seems to error out
at the start.
Most of the other workflows pause/wait for a status change but I will be reviewing all the workflows to confirm there is no locking conflict. I have added a Wait to one other workflow that I know will update the list item on startup, it is populating
the Title column but even after that I am still getting the error.
I noticed in the TraceLogs, 2 errors that started on Feb 2 and I could not find them in any previous logs (went back many days with no occurrences).
02/02/2015 07:15:55.93 w3wp.exe (0x1C50) 0x18D4 SharePoint Foundation
Workflow Infrastructure 88xr Unexpected WinWF Internal Error, terminating workflow Id# 6cbf1da4-fbf9-4dfe-ae48-b6d765cc6d03
02/02/2015 07:15:56.37 w3wp.exe (0x1C50) 0x2140 SharePoint Foundation
SPRequest 8l3a Medium Failed to cache field with id "{49af83c9-c5e3-47db-b055-bf18673bba67}", overwrite=0
The "Field ID"{49af83c9...} listed is a Lookup column to a Clients list on the same site.
Any suggestions on what could be causing the sudden errors. I will be reviewing all other workflows but as I mentioned previously, this system has been working great up until Feb 2 with no changes to the lists or workflows for 3-6+ months.
Thanks in advance.
Stunpals - Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.Thanks for the quick response Nikhil.
Our SPF 2010 server is relatively small to many setups I am sure. The list with the issue only has 4456 items and there are a few associated lists, eg lookups, Tasks, etc see below for count.
Site Lists
Engagements = 4456 (Errors on this list, primary list for activity)
Tasks = 7711 (All workflow tasks from all site lists)
Clients = 4396 (Lookup from Engagements, Tslips, etc)
Workflow History = 584930 (I periodically run a cleanup on this and try to keep it under 400k)
Tslips = 3522 (Engagements list can create items here, but overall not much interaction between lists)
A few other lists that are used by workflows to lookup associations that are fairly static and under 50 items, eg "Parters Admin" used to lookup a partners executive admin to assign a task.
Stunpals - Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties. -
Received this error (The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different type of information.) recently on a workflow that was
working fine and no changes were made to the workflow.
I have tried a few suggestions, i.e. adding a pause before any ‘Update’ action (which didn’t help because the workflow past this action without incident); checked the data type being written
to the fields (the correct data types are being written); and we even checked the list schema to ensure the list names and the internal names are aligned (they
are), but we still cannot figure out why the workflow is still throwing this error.
We located the area within the workflow step where it is failing and we inserted a logging action to determine if the workflow would execute the logging action but it did not, but wrote the same error message.
The workflow is a Reusable Approval workflow designed in SharePoint Designer 2010 and attached to a content type.
The form associated with the list was modified in InfoPath 2010.
Approvers would provide their approval in the InfoPath form which is then read by the workflow.
Side note - items created after the workflow throws this Unknown Error some seem to be working fine.
We have deleted the item in question and re-added it with no effect.
Based on what we were able to determine there don’t seem to be any consistency with how this issue is behaving.
Any suggestions on how to further investigate this issue in order to find the root cause would be greatly appreciated?
CheersHi,
I understand that the reusable workflow doesn’t work properly now. Have you tried to remove the Update list item action to see whether the workflow can run without issue?
If the workflow runs perfectly when the Update list item action is removed, then you need to check whether there are errors in the update action. Check whether the values have been changed.
Thanks,
Entan Ming
Entan Ming
TechNet Community Support -
I got error "The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different type of information "I found out the cause is Update Item action
I need to update item in another List call Customer Report ,the field call "Issues" with data type "Choice" to yes
then the error arise . please help..Thanks for the quick response Nikhil.
Our SPF 2010 server is relatively small to many setups I am sure. The list with the issue only has 4456 items and there are a few associated lists, eg lookups, Tasks, etc see below for count.
Site Lists
Engagements = 4456 (Errors on this list, primary list for activity)
Tasks = 7711 (All workflow tasks from all site lists)
Clients = 4396 (Lookup from Engagements, Tslips, etc)
Workflow History = 584930 (I periodically run a cleanup on this and try to keep it under 400k)
Tslips = 3522 (Engagements list can create items here, but overall not much interaction between lists)
A few other lists that are used by workflows to lookup associations that are fairly static and under 50 items, eg "Parters Admin" used to lookup a partners executive admin to assign a task.
Stunpals - Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.
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