PLM Change Management Workflow Migration?

I understand from the documentation I can migrate workflow processes that are created in oracle Workflow Builder via the .wft files (custom workflows). I'm interested to know if there is a way to migrate workflows that are created using the change management tools inside of PLM. Do these result in .wft files and if so how do I find their names?
Any help would be appreciated as we are currently configuring the workflows in each environment (dev, test, ... prod) and this is a huge waste of our time and resources.

As for Oracle Workflow is concerned, it can be saved and ported as WFT files. The workflow definitions are created ONLY using Workflow Builder and no other tool. As far as my knowledge goes, no other tool really embeds the Builder inside it or for that matter can create Workflow definitions.
Please explain what you meant by Workflows created by PLM's Change Mgmt tools.
Thanks
Vijay

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Hello All,
Have two questions to understand latest trends in PLM.
1. What is the recommended tool we need to use for Engineering change management
as per latest trends in PLM. Is ECR/ECO CC31/CC32 still considered
part of best practice or has been Obsoleted ??
2. For Cad Integration, is CDESK obsolete. Has Engineering
Desktop overtaken CDESK. I used to work with CDESK in the past.
Thanks,
Sachin

Hi Sachin
Please find the replies for the query you have asked.
1. What is the recommended tool we need to use for Engineering change management
as per latest trends in PLM. Is ECR/ECO CC31/CC32 still considered
part of best practice or has been Obsoleted ??
It is still used in industries. But with PLM 7.02 you have more robust mechanism of Engineering
Records which has better capablities than ECR/ECO.
2. For Cad Integration, is CDESK obsolete. Has Engineering
Desktop overtaken CDESK. I used to work with CDESK in the past.
SAP Engineering Center Control is used .
Thanks & Regards
Satish

Engineering change management workflow

Hi Experts,
In our case ,Workflow should not be triggered by the event or from the IMG configuration . Workflow should be triggered manaually by clicking the start workflow option in transaction CC02.
Click the first icon in CC02, followed by selecting start workflow icon. Now you will get a popup screen displaying all of the possible sub workflows and a main workflow which are related to ECM workflows.
Now you will be choosing the main workflow followed by clicking the start button to trigger the workflow.
The client wants to trigger the workflow from the application like this . The creator of the ECR will start the workflow only after all of the objects are attached and if the creator finds ok then he starts the workflow for further process.
My question is :
Only the main workflow should come up in the pop up screen so that user won't get confused which workflow they need to start. if only main workflow displayed in the pop up screen then the user have only one option to choose and start the workflow. How to avoid all the subworkflows which is displayed in the pop up screen ?
Advance thanks for guiding me with the solution and surely points will be awarded .
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Jack.

Hi Nabheet,
That was a useful reply, I used swu_obuf but still it doesnt work.
Actually the workitem is visible in outbox (workflow) of the sender. it shows the recipent name in the assigned users and the his SBWP inbox icon, but it doesnt appear in his inbox.
I have found OSS note "sapnote_0001308276" which is very similar to the solution provided by you. I think it should work but i am not sure.
@ All : if some one has implemented with note pls let me know.
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Rohit

PLM - Engineering Change Management - ABAP Development

Engineering Change Management
Program: SAPMC29C
Transaction:CC02
Change Master Valid From date once expired (Protected Time Period) – Not able to change by the user
Requirement is to change the valid from date to New date from custom program even if it is expired to over right existing protected date
Let me know if any enhancement to change the validity date by restricted user
I required step by step ABAP development required for this change - pls help with your experience on PLM CC02 - Vaildity date change
Screen shot attached

Pass the following fields on input structure IN_AENRB:-
MANDT                          xxx                         "Client
AENNR                          123456789ECM
AENST                          41                            "Change no. status should be 41
AENBE                          PLANT
DATUV                          08/22/2014               "New valid from date
AETXT                          ECM DESCRIPTION
FLUSE                          X
AEDIF                          xxxxxxxxxx               "Get from AENR table for this ecm
VBKZ                           U

How to deactivate Change Request Management workflows task

We are in a situation where we are switching external SAP service
organisation and we cannot at this stage introduce any new procedures
regarding sceduling-tasklists/TMS/etc. Our ChaRM implementation project
must be set back in to a possision where we can maintain our normal
system maintainance processes without using a fully implementated
CharRM functionallity. The implementation of CharRM has to be realized
in 2 steps:
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servicedesk, implement this in our organisation
b) activate fully ChaRM functionality with interaction with
SLD/TMS/tasklists/etc after we have switched service organisation
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>Configuration->Scenario-Spesific Settings->Change Management->Change
Request Management->Standard Configuration->General Activities-
>Activate Integration with Change Request Management and related
settings.
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process.
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regarding administration and documentation of SAP changements.

Hi,
Find the guides : on help.sap.com
Change Management:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/0c/5b2160f6fa4b83a3674a210b1cdeb0/frameset.htm
Service Desk:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/45/51fbdbd4941803e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
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Siddhesh

Issue on Saving Changed List UIBB contents in PLM - Recipe Management

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I am having a requirement to enhancement the standard PLM Change/ Display Recipe Screen. Enhanced to have two buttons - Get Moisture Loss Button and Calculate Moisture Loss Button. On selecting Get Moisture, system will show a pop up where the user can enter Moisture Loss value. and on selecting the button Calculate Moisture Loss, system will perform some actions based on the value entered on the pop up and updates the Nutrient list in the Calculation tab.
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Rinzy Deena Mathews.

A note on Setup Manager - Application Change Management Pack

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Hi,
your note very interesting. Is there any other way to extract the configuration using SQL? not using Enterprise Manager? hope this will be fastest way then using GUI base.
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Setup Manager - Application Change Management Pack

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Integration with Change Approval mechanism – Execution of projects is integrated with change approval mechanism which means that you can control who executes what. Also, you have fine grain access control where you can control EBS targets assigned to a user.
Offline Transformation – I would say this is the most unique feature of Setup Manager and as an implementer you would welcome this feature very much. iSetup has got very limited capability on Transformation. Here we have gone way ahead and support Transformation on almost all Setup Objects. We present you the extracted data in excel sheets. You can download the excel template and work offline. All the attribute value fields in the excel sheet are editable which means that you supply your own value. For example, you can download Operating Unit data as xls file and change operating unit “OU100” to “OU200” and upload it back to system and load to target instance. Please note that any attribute of Operating Unit setup data can be edited. Also, system has got intelligence and once you upload the excel sheet, it automatically changes all the inventory organization which belongs to “OU100” to “OU200”. This behavior can be controlled using attribute mapping which you can create in Setup Manager. Hold on, this is not the end, also you can add more operating unit in excel, say OU300 and OU400 and load it to target instance. You can delete few Operating Units from extracted data in excel sheet and load the remaining to target instance. This gives you complete flexibility to manage (add/edit/delete) functional configuration data offline. This is fantastic feature and please have a look at how it works.
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Hi Mugunthan,
Can you provide links to any tutorial or example (screenshots) of using Setup Manager to transfer something between two environments (say Users or DFFs)?
Thanks,
Gareth

BPM - Change Management

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I am working on a document in which i need information about the process of change management for oracle bpm (for example versioning of projects and so on).
I have already the document for deploying in which is the information for versioning projects and deploying...
Does anyone know where i could get information related to change management for bpm enterprise???
I've been searching on oracle university and the web in general but i can't find any information.
Any information provided is really helpfull
Thanks in advance guys :)

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It's a good question and I hope this helps.
My short answer is that "it depends...".
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Hi,
We have a requirement to automate the change management process. Typical functionality needed is - input the change required, assign priority, organise risk assessment, change approvals, change implementation, send automatic emails to managers etc.
Is BPM a best fit to this kind of Change Management Process?
Thanks
Srikanth

Hi Srikanth,
It's a good question and I hope this helps.
My short answer is that "it depends...".
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Workflow - are there multiple people involved in the editing and approvals over some period of time?
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We do use Timesheets for time entry and
status of activities
Ok, in P6 we
are trying to track change management. Maybe not the full
workflow that passes from individual to individual. We are
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/>
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<br
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We have solution manager 7.0 with latest support pack stack. We have a requirement of configuring service desk with change management. I have configured service desk and it is working.
I am not bale to understand how to configure Change management and how will it works. Can you guys send me the link for configuring change management and how we will test it.
Is service desk configuration is required for change management??
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Bhanu Pratap Singh

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ChaRM is basically based on Service Desk. But if you do not want to there is no need to use Service Desk features.
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Hi,
> 1) Support Messages is created
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000035912008E.sim
> 2) Change Request is created from Support Message
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700002931432006E.sim
> 3) A project is created for the Change Request
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700005479242006E.sim
> 4) ??? What about the blueprint, configuration, testing, learning features? How do they integrate with CHARM?
> x) at the end, how does the project created for the Change Request integrate with the project that documents the business process? I mean, if the actual processes of an R/3 system are documented in a SolMan project, and a Change Request is processed, how do I modify the general project with the change project?
I am not quite clear what exactly is your requirement here. Change Request Management and Project management are different in their ways. You can handle the documenation tasks through your project management and ChaRM is used for the changes.
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000059722008E
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700006819152005E
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