Pop up Box while workflow executes an activity step

Question

Hi Folks!
I dont know whether this is feasible or not, but please shoot your suggestions.
I want to display a pop up box in SAP GUI when a workflow executes a particular step. Basically, once my workflow starts, I have included a condition step (it checks the document type). So if the document type is 'X', then the workflow should proceed as usual. However, when the document type 's 'Y', the workflow should throw a pop up message over the screen and the workflow should terminate.
Now the reason why we want the pop up screen rather than an email/workitem is because we have two workflows that utilize the same business object (FIPP). There was a situation where an end user manually started *(thru 'services for object'-> start workflow) the wrong workflow for a document, due to which the document got posted without getting any approvals.
So what we would like to achieve is when the user manually starts the wrong workflow, the workflow should proceed and then when the check condition fails the user should get a pop up box immediately in SAP itself saying that the wrong workflow was started.
Your inputs/comments are most welcome.
Regards,
Anwar.

Answer 1

I am sorry but it is not possible to throw pop up every time, actually workflow consists of background task which got executed without user intervention and in those cases no pop up will come up.
You can get pop up box for dialog task (such as user decision etc)you have to write down business object method code for that.
there are many ways you can handle your situation:
1. Write down the Check FM for FIPP-Posted Event where you can check it whether it is approved or not, If not then do not complete the workflow and start some dialog WI and send across to approvers
(It is just outline, you have to formulate the solution around this outline).
2. Also you can check for BAdi or user Exit and directly can write down message for that, It seems more easy.
Cheers
Jai