Processing Workitems from UWL

Dear All
We are in the process of developing a custom recruitment solution which will allows users to raise such requests on EP(MSS) and then route these through an approval hierarchy. We are not using the ISR framework for this.
My problem is with the work item in the UWL. I am currently able to launch the custom (JavaWD) form and also update container elements back into the workitem but have so far been unable to 'Complete' the workitem and continue with the rest of the workflow.
I am using SAP_WAPI_WORKITEM_COMPLETE before which I use SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER.
The status being returned by SAP_WAPI_WORKITEM_COMPLETE seems to be incorrect - it is STARTED rather than COMPLETE (?).
Am I missing something? We are ECC5.0 and the portal is EP 7.0.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Ravi

Hi Ravi,
It should be like, after executing your code in RFC enabled Custom FM, you require to set the status of this Standard Task to COMPLETED using the above mentioned Function module.
I am not so sure what WORKITEM number you are trying to send to this function module as input, is it the workitem number of this standard Task or Workitem number of the Workflow?
That's the reason, I am asking you to test it manually.
Test it manually and check if the control goes to the next step.
Regards
Raja Sekhar

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Exception ID: 05:33_30/09/10_0010_24209150 is your exception id. Search for the log files in the default trace and see what the exact error message is. If you can post this here it would be great.
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[UWL Forums|SAP Enterprise Portal: Application Integration;
[Business Task Management|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/9e/ccf62fff3e4a45a634e592dabb45d5/frameset.htm]
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[JavaDocs UWL API|http://help.sap.com/javadocs/NW04S/current/uw/overview-summary.html]
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