Problem with a GP tutorial

Question

Hello,
I have a small problem with this tutorial:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/609c52aa-8f0a-2b10-d59e-b5248a7ac1e2
I've actually, been able to do the whole tutorial, but i have some issues when i try to change something in it.
What i want is for the info to persist when ever the SME desk rejects or the KO rejects and sends it to the Author Desk. Right now, everytime i go back to the Author Desk after a rejection, the fields are blank. I've tried playing with the block parameters, output and input, but it doesn't seem to work. So i'm now requesting some little help from you guys.
Thanks very much in advance
Regards.

Answer 1

Hi Khadija,
Nice to know that you were able to complete the tutorial and that now you are trying to do something more on it.
Ok what you are trying to do is not difficult. I will explain how you can achieve this. Follow these steps:
1) See page 29 in the doc.
2) In the picture you can see we have made the grouped parameters like First_Name_Ath_SME, Last_Name_Ath_SME,...., First_Name_SME_KO, Last_Name_SME_KO,....
3) Now select the grouped parameter First_Name_SME_KO as well as the input parameter First_Name of action Author Desk using the Ctrl key. Now click on the Add to Group button above.
4) This will add the input parameter First_Name of the Author Desk to the already grouped parameter First_Name_SME_KO. In the same way add the other input parameters of Author Desk to the corresponding grouped parameters which are ending with SME_KO.
5) Doing this will make sure that if you click the Submit button in SME Desk screen, the parameter values go to the KO Desk screen. And if you click the Reject button in SME Desk screen, the parameter values go back to the Author Desk screen.
6) Now you have to make groups for input parameters of the Author Desk and the Output Parameters of the KO Desk too.
7) Select the output parameter First_Name of action KO Desk as well as the input parameter First_Name of action Author Desk using the Ctrl key on your keyboard. Now click on Group button above. Give the name as First_Name_KO_Ath and click on Create.
8) Similarly group all the other input parameters of Author Desk with the corresponding output parameters of the KO Desk.
9) Doing this will make sure that if you click the Reject button in KO Desk, the parameter values go back to the Author screen. Do not worry about the options in the KO Reject Option callable object. As you can see on page 35, sending back to SME does not need any parameter mapping. And for sending back to Author, we have already done the parameter mapping in steps 6-8 above.
Now I have something for you. If you do not implement steps 6-9, even then you will see the input boxes filled in Author Desk screen when you reject from KO Desk to Author Desk. Can you tell me why?
Bye
Ankur