Personal Object Worklist (POWL)

Question

Hi Everyone,
I'm a newbie in Portal content so please give an answer in the simplest of english.
Q : What does a POWL in the context of an Enterprise Portal User mean/offer??
Thanks and Best Regards,
Sai

Answer 1

>>what POWL is all about>>
The Personal Object Worklist (POWL) provides you, as an Enterprise Portal user, with a general overview of your work environment and all related business objects that you would be interested to work on. It enables you to manage your work efficiently and aids in decision-making. POWLs are most suited to assignments that are not a part of a workflow.
>>its use>>
Function
Gives you a unified and centralized way to access your work and the relevant information
Aggregates non-workflow task items from multiple and different systems in one universal list
Displays additional information as required from document and object repositories, including attachments and other details such as worklist type dependent actions
Provides easy entry into business object handling in detail and also in presentation of work items
Example
Consider a production order-related worklist; based on a predefined selection variant the Production Supervisor (portal role) gets a worklist with planned orders for his or her section of a plant, including a workshop, which is represented by all materials belonging to the same material class.
The Production Supervisor can now select one or more planned orders, convert them to production orders, release the orders, print the work instructions, and distribute the worklists to the responsible operator groups.
>>whats it based on>>
You can find the settings and configurations here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/42/d6652b755c1630e10000000a1553f7/content.htm
>>its use in contrast with WEB DYNPRO>>
It is an ABAP Webdynpro Application and part of Netweaver 2004s so you can create a Webdynpro iView for ABAP in Portals using the following link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/44/451e7582190a64e10000000a422035/content.htm
A POWL (Personal Object Work List) is an individual list generated by query that provides an overview of the user's working environment by presenting one or more list of objects, as a set from which the user can select items to work on. There are some POWLs which are already predefined and delivered together with the applications available in the SAP NetWeaver Portal. However, if the default POWLs do no meet the customer requirements, it is possible to change the query values or to assign different POWLs to the application you like.
Configuration Settings in the Backend System:
1. Log on to the backend system <System ID> you want to configure
2. Start the transaction ‚POWL_QUERY’
3. Click on button ‘New Entries’
4. Enter a name for ‘Query ID’ and the corresponding ‘Description’.
5. Select an available ‘Type’ via F4 help
6. Save your query definition
7. Go back to the „Main Table View: Initial Screen“ and select the Query you’ve already created
8. Click on ‘Details’ or <Ctrl-Shift-F2>
9. Click on button ‘Query Parameters’
10. Fill in some values for one/more selection criteria
11. Save your changes
You&#61550; may need to assign the POWLs you would like to display for a specific Application (e.g. Customer Fact Sheet). In order do this, you should do the following:
12. Start transaction ‘POWL_QUERYR’.
13. Click on button ‘New Entries’
14. Select as ‘Application’ via F4 help the application you would like to assing the queries to (e.g.value ‘O2C-CUSTOMER_FACT_SHEET”) and as ‘Query ID’ the query you’ve already created. (Note: Not all the POWLs may work for the application you want)
13. Mark the checkbox ‘Activate’ and save your entry
To test if the POWLs you've defined display correctly on the SAP NetWeaver Portal:
1. Log on to the SAP NetWeaver Portal
2. Open the Application you would like to test and for which you assigned the POWLs (e.g. Customer Fact Sheet’) and, check if the queries are available.
Please follow the following steps to create a powl worklist and see it using the powl application .
1) implement the feeder class IF_POWL_FEEDER. Details about this can be found here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/42/d6652b755c1630e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
2) Maintain an application id using the transaction FPB_MAINTAIN_HIER
3) Go to transaction POWL_TYPE to define a powl type. point it to your newly created class.
4) Next in the transaction POWL_TYPER maintain the newyl created powl type with the application id.
5) Using transaction POWL_QUERY create a default query. In this step you will have to specify the type of query (again the powl type). Here you will be mentioning the type of query.
6) using POWL_CAT maintain a category. The category is used to group multiple queries of the same type.
7) In POWL_QUERYR maintain the default query created with the application id and the category.
8) call the powl application with the applid.