Peculiar behaviour in GP workflow

Question

Hi Experts,
I have 5 actions in my GP
1) Create Request (Adobe Interactive Form)
2) 1st Approval
3) 2nd Approval
4) Call RFC
5) Display Summary
In the GP runtime only actions 1, 2, 3, and 5 show up, I'm guessing this is because the external service action (Call RFC) is a background process?
Anyway, after 2nd approval process the RFC does get invoked and data is written to the backend, however, in Action 5, I'm trying to display a Message out of a structure, so what I have is a Display Form callable object with one input parameter called 'Message'. I have consolidated this parameter with the Message field from the exporting structure from the function module. However, nothing is displayed. What I'm trying to do is display the document number that the exporting parameter from the BAPI returns...no such luck. When I test the BAPI, I see the document number successfully. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

Ram,
Thanks, I have been using this monitoring tool...though its not always so straightforward.
Two more things that I'm finding troublesome to debug:
1) The output structure in the complete( ) function is empty. Here is some of the code:
//@@begin complete()
    try
         IGPStructure output = executionContext.getOutputStructure();
         String userid = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getUUserId();
         String ufname = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getUFirstName();
         String ulname = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getULastName();
         String uemail = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getUEmail();
         String apprid = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getAUserId();
         String afname = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getAFirstName();
         String alname = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getALastName();
         String aemail = wdContext.currentOutputElement().getAEmail();
         String vendor = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getVendor();
         String entity = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getEntity();
         String cstctr = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getCostCenter();
         String glacnt = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getGlAccount();
         String intord = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getInternalOrder();
         String amount = wdContext.currentFormInputElement().getAmount();
         output.setAttributeValue("userId",          userid);
     output.setAttributeValue("usrFirstName",    ufname);
     output.setAttributeValue("usrLastName",     ulname);
     output.setAttributeValue("usrEmail",        uemail);
     output.setAttributeValue("approverId",      apprid);
     output.setAttributeValue("appFirstName",    afname);
     output.setAttributeValue("appLastName",     alname);
     output.setAttributeValue("appEmail",        aemail);
     output.setAttributeValue("vendorNo",        vendor);
     output.setAttributeValue("entityNo",        entity);
     output.setAttributeValue("costCenterNo",    cstctr);
     output.setAttributeValue("glAccountNo",     glacnt);
     output.setAttributeValue("internalOrderNo", intord);
     output.setAttributeValue("amountNo",        amount);
         executionContext.setResultState("Success");
         executionContext.processingComplete();
And here is how I am creating the output structure inside getDescription( )
IGPStructureInfo out = techDesc.getOutputStructureInfo();
IGPAttributeInfo outUUserId       = out.addAttribute("userId", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outUFirstName    = out.addAttribute("usrFirstName", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outULastName     = out.addAttribute("usrLastName", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outUEmail        = out.addAttribute("usrEmail", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outAUserId       = out.addAttribute("approverId", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outAFirstName    = out.addAttribute("appFirstName", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outALastName     = out.addAttribute("appLastName", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outAEmail        = out.addAttribute("appEmail", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outVendor        = out.addAttribute("vendorNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outEntity        = out.addAttribute("entityNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outCostCenter    = out.addAttribute("costCenterNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outGlAccount     = out.addAttribute("glAccountNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outInternalOrder = out.addAttribute("internalOrderNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
IGPAttributeInfo outAmount        = out.addAttribute("amountNo", IGPAttributeInfo.BASE_STRING);
outUUserId      .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outUFirstName   .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outULastName    .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outUEmail       .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outAUserId      .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outAFirstName   .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outALastName    .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outAEmail       .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outVendor       .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outEntity       .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outCostCenter   .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outGlAccount    .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outInternalOrder.setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
outAmount       .setMultiplicity(IGPAttributeInfo.MULITIPLICITY_1_1);
When I do a test to see that the context actually contains any data, it shows that it does, but for some reason the output structure is always empty. The only way I can get a successful result is if I fill all the parameters when I initiate the process, which I think is silly because the parameters are supposed to come from the Adobe form, not the initiation process.
2) The RFC that I invoke to write to the backend returns a structure with a message. I want to display this message to the user. So what I have done is created a Display Form CO, and created a Message parameter of type string. I have then consolidated the message parameter of the structure with my message parameter, but it always shows empty also.
What am I doing wrong? Please help.
Kunal.