Process flow email task

Hi all,
I have a scenario like i am running one process flow which is having 3 maps. I needs to send out email for the below condition.
1.If there is no record in the source.
2. If there is no record in the target.
I want to implement these scenario in the process flow and not in the map level.
Could you please help in this scenario..
Thanks in advance,
Ashis

Hi,
I have the same scenario. I have written a function, it returns a boolean value 0 or 1.
For the transition operator i took a complex consition, but it is not working.
My function looks like this
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION err_message(result OUT number)
RETURN NUMBER IS
L_MESSAGE VARCHAR2(200);
BEGIN
L_MESSAGE := 0;
SELECT distinct(run_error_message) into L_MESSAGE
FROM owbrep.rab_rt_exec_act_run_errors
WHERE ERROR_TIME = trunc(sysdate)
IF L_MESSAGE ='ORA-12541: TNS:no listener'
THEN
RETURN (1);
ELSE
RETURN (0);
END IF;
END;
function in the process flow always returns 0 even the condition is satisfied.
any suggessions.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi!
I need some assistance regarding my email process flow.
Lets say I have process flows. One process flow runs a single mapping . If it ends in error it launchas another process flow.
This other process flow is my email process flow. Its just a process flow(killing my self writing process flow) which just sends out an email.
So if my 1st PF is failed, I get an email.
What Im trying to do now is use global variables. So I have a varible in my PF1 with value = Error in PF1. And I now want to bind this variable to my EMAIL variable in my EMAIL PF.
This means, if PF1 Error = Send this varible into PF2.
I have tried using IN/OUT parameters, trying to bind variables.. But I cannot get to to bind my EMAIL variable to my PF1 variable.
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Si

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REFERENCES
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PAGE 57 - Adding new business process flows -> To add a step -> Select the current view type
SAP BPC 5.1 ADMINISTRATION USER'S GUIDE can be found on [BPC Instalation Guides and User Guides|http://service.sap.com/instguidescpm-bpc].
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Is your process flow showing any error regarding email ??
Create a simple process flow with email activity only.
Set FROM_EMAIL , TO_EMAIL , SUBJECT ,MESSAGE_BODY, SMTP_SERVER , PORT
SMTP_SERVER and PORT values are very important.
Check connection to SMTP_SERVER by running the following command on dos prompt
telnet smtp_server_name port
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Email utility activity in process flow

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Hello Swapna,
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I thought I posted this Friday, but I just noticed I never hit the 'Post Message Button', ha ha.
This info below will help you translate some of the information in the tables, etc. You could report on it from the Audit tables directly or move them to another appropriate data table for analysis later. The concensus, though I disagree, is that you will suffer performance issues if your audit tables get too big, so you want to move them periodically. You can do this using a scheduled Task, manual process, etc.
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union all
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0     Idle
1     Rules Load
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3     Rules Extract
4     Consolidation
5     Chart Logic
6     Translation
7     Custom Logic
8     Allocate
9     Data Load
10     Data Extract
11     Data Extract via HAL
12     Data Entry
13     Data Retrieval
14     Data Clear
15     Data Copy
16     Journal Entry
17     Journal Retrieval
18     Journal Posting
19     Journal Unposting
20     Journal Template Entry
21     Metadata Load
22     Metadata Extract
23     Member List Load
24     Member List Scan
25     Member List Extract
26     Security Load
27     Security Scan
28     Security Extract
29     Logon
30     Logon Failure
31     Logoff
32     External
33     Metadata Scan
34     Data Scan
35     Extended Analytics Export
36     Extended Analytics Schema Delete
37     Transactions Load
38     Transactions Extract
39     Document Attachments
40     Document Detachments
41     Create Transactions
42     Edit Transactions
43     Delete Transactions
44     Post Transactions
45     Unpost Transactions
46     Delete Invalid Records
47     Data Audit Purged
48     Task Audit Purged
49     Post All Transactions
50     Unpost All Transactions
51     Delete All Transactions
52     Unmatch All Transactions
53     Auto Match by ID
54     Auto Match by Account
55     Intercompany Matching Report by ID
56     Intercompany Matching Report by Acct
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61     Lock/Unlock IC Entities
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Does anyone know if you can trigger the start of a process flow once an email has been received?
thanks ...

alternatively what you can done is:
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create an SMTP service on unix/linux
have the email coming into unix/linux
write a unix shell scrpt to read he mails on a regular basis
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I've created a boolean variable VAR1 (default is FALSE) which I want to assign depending on warning/failure of 2 mappings (not sure if using a variable is the correct way to go).
So in my process flow, I call MAPPING1. On success, it calls MAPPING2.
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Hi,
Have you tried using conditions on your transitions?
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