Trigger workflow from ABAP webdynpro and attach an Adobe interactive form

I have a need to create an ABAP Webdynpro that will upload a completed Adobe interactive form and then route the form to multiple approvers thru workflow. I am having trouble finding any documentation or examples of passing the Adobe form in the workflow. Do I have to save the content of every field on the form to an internal table and then have every workitem call an ABAP webdynpro to render the form? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Joyce,
This can be done as follows :
[pdf as an attachment|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/60ff6ad3-729b-2b10-6582-fedc82680a29&overridelayout=true]
Regards,
Geet

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Trigger workflow from ABAP webdynpro (having an adobe form)

Hello All,
I have developed an Webdynpro (for ABAP) component that has an Adobe Form integrated within it. Now I have been given a requirment that the form (once filled out on the portal) needs to be routed to 2-3 persons for approval and then submitted (or processed in SAP). The approving personnel will look at their UWL on the portal and approve/dissapprove.
I do not have much hands on experience on such a Workflow scenario as above. I have already completed the adobe form part and the webdynpro section.
I will really appreciate it if anyone can advise as to how I need to proceed here.
Thanks in advance, Liz

Hi Liz,
You can use the FM SAP_WAPI_START_WORKFLOW. In webdynpro you have the button like "Submit" right? All the process has done, the user can click the submit button to get the approval. Under the button you can call this FM.
Create one workflow based on your scenario, and pass the workflow number to this FM. So once the submit button is clicked then in back end workflow will getting triggered.
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Trigger a workflow from ABAP Webdynpro

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Step 1: When a user hits the SAVE button on the webdynpro form, check if that data is consistent only and trigger a message(I have a BAPI to handle this check).
Step 2: If the data is consistent, then trigger a workflow to send an alert to an agent along with the data user entered on the form.
Step 3: AGENT shall review the data(Same form from step 1 should appear here) and will have the option to SUBMIT / POST or REJECT. If SUBMITTED, data will be posted to R/3(I have a 2nd BAPI to handle this). If REJECTED, send an alert back to the USER who entered data in step 1.
I checked lots of threads from the forum, none gave me a complete idea. Can any one give me a good documentation to trigger workflow from webdynpro to handle my requirement.
I am new to webdynpro.
I checked this blogs & articles also...
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Best Regards,
Kiran

Hello Kiran,
I slightly misunderstood you requirement earlier. But if I am not wrong this time, here is what you need to do:
1) The Web dynpro form that you are creating is only for data entry purpose. But the agent who is going to review the data will need an access to this form. So this means that you need to save the content of this form to the database and provide a URL in the workflow workitem which the agent can use to open the web dynpro application with the form data on it.
2) To access the correct form, you need to save the form data in a Z-table with a GUID attached to it. Generate this GUID using GUID_CREATE function module. In the window controller of the Web dynpro component, there will be a handleDefault method where you can read the parameter'GUID' from the incoming request and use it to read the form data from the database to display the form.
3) You can use Object Oriented programming approach for creating Workflow. Check the following article to learn how to do that:
[http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0409e6c-d213-2d10-3cb6-c12d417626c1?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true]
4) Create a Z-class and use this class as object type in your workflow (instead of BOR object).
5) In the constructor of this class, pass a parameter GUID, which would be passed when you create an object of this class in the Web Dynpro forms "OnActionSave" method.
6) Create a method in this class which will do the task of calling the BAPI to save the Acct Document. This method will be used in a Background task in a workflow step (after the agent approves the workitem).
7) Create a method in the class which generates the URL to the webdynpro application with the GUID passed as parameter.
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   TRY.
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Please read through the workflow using Object Oriented document in the URL that I have mentioned above before you read through these instructions.
There would be a way to do this using BOR objects, but this is the way that I have tried and tested to use trigger workflows from Web dynpro applications.
Best Regards,
Gaurav
Edited by: Gaurav Salkar on Apr 6, 2010 6:13 PM

How to Trigger a Workflow from ABAP Webdynpro

Hi All Gurus,
I have the following urgent requirement, my client is implementing HR and there is a requirement, where is a ABAP Webdynpro component in which we have integrated a Adobe Interactive Form. When the user calls this from through Portal and fills out the relevant data and submits it, a Workflow in the backend ECC system should lauch,
I am not familiar with, this concept although I have worked in Workflow this is the first time I am interfacind with ABAP Webdynpro and Adobe Interactive From.
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http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/82/b6b94278560c31e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Saujanya.

GP and WD with Adobe Interactive form question - need some guidance.

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i have a user developed screen in which there is an option to approve (not a std tcode)
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/80/9a3cb3971c11d194c60000e82dec10/frameset.htm.
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I want to convert smartform to pdf from ABAP webdynpro and
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