Work Flow Variable Scope

What is the scope of the variable defined in the workflow.
Is WF variable accessible in the form which is being referenced from a form which is present in a subprocess which is called from the workflow activity.
c c c
WF --- Subprocess --- Form ---- Form1 ( I want to access the WF level variable in form1)
c stands for Calls.
Can any one explain variable scoping concept in XPRESS.

Hi,
A workflow variable has its scope in all subprocesses forms, rules, and email templates that are being referenced or invoked from this main process.
Say u have task definition named wotkflow1, and a variable a.
and Form form1. this form1 is displayed in an activity from workflow1. Variable 'a' can be referenced in the form. one more subprocess named subprocess1 is invoked from workflow if will also has variable a in scope to access.
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Developing a simple application using steps "User Decision" and "Mail"
Basic terminology used in the workflow:
The workflow definition is the set of rules that determine the path that the process takes. For example, how a purchase requisition is processed, from the initial request to the creation of the purchase order
A Workflow Instance, which is often simply referred to as the workflow, is a single workflow run. For example, the processing of a single purchase requisition for computers.
The Tasks are the steps in the process, which have to be performed either by people or automatically by the software. For example, to check for the availability of the spare computers in the company.
A Work item is the task instance that is performed as a single workflow step. For example, check that there are no spare computers available in the company.
Agents are the people who process the tasks (via the work items). For example, requisitioner and a member of the purchasing department.
Container is the place where all the data used in the workflow is collected.
Binding is the set of rules that define which data is passed to which part of the process.
Building a simple workflow application
The central tool for creating, displaying and processing a workflow is the workflow builder (Transaction SWDD). Within the workflow builder you can create all components of a workflow, including all the containers you need for getting the data from one step to another.
Generally, most of the workflows are started by an event (for example, when a material is created or when a new purchase requisition arrives). You define which data from this event needs to be passed to the workflow via binding.
However you can also start any workflow directly. Let us create a simple workflow and start the workflow directly, using the testing tools.
Call transaction SWDD. When the workflow builder is called for the first time, a newly created initial workflow definition appears or else last created workflow appears. In such cases you can opt to create a new workflow by pressing Create New Workflow(ctrl + shft + F5). The following screen appears.
The initial workflow screen has the following parts:
a. The start of the workflow definition, indicated by .
b. The end of the workflow definition, indicated by .
c. The area in which you insert the new workflow definition is indicated by .
Now select the undefined step and select Create step or double click the undefined step. Now among the different steps chose the User Decision by double clicking on it.
Developing a simple application using steps "User Decision" and "Mail"
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Now enter the title for the user decision Please make a decision. Also enter the decision texts as Approve and Reject. On pressing enter, the outcome values default to the Decision texts but you can specify your own names, if desired. Now we need to select the agent. Agent is the person to whom the work item needs to be sent.. Since this is just a beginning, we would hardcode the user name. Select the User from the drop down list and enter the user name to whom the work item needs to be sent. In general, this type of agent assignment is not done. Agents are generally assigned using the expression, agent assignment rule or organization object (job, position etc.).
Now select Transfer and to graphic button. Following screen appears:
Now we need to include a mail step to be sent to the requestor. Now select the line Approve and do a right click. Different options on shown on the context menu. Select Create.
Now select the step Send Mail from the list.
Developing a simple application using steps "User Decision" and "Mail"
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Now enter the subject and the body of the message for the mail to be sent.
Do not change the recipients. Our mail is intended for the persons who triggered this workflow. &_WF_INITIATOR& contains the value who executed the workflow. Since this is a test object, we are using &_WF_INITIATOR&. But we wouldnt be using this variable in real time scenarios. We would discuss about this in the coming documents.
Now select Transfer and to graphic button.
A popup appears requesting for the abbreviation and the name for this task. Enter the same and press enter.
Now enter the package as local object and press enter.
Follow the steps 5 through 9 for the step Reject. The following screen appears:
Press SAVE to save the workflow application. You need to enter an abbreviation and name for your workflow as shown below. You can change any of these at any later point. After saving, a number is assigned to your workflow starting with WS, as shown below.
Developing a simple application using steps "User Decision" and "Mail"
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To execute the workflow, activate it by choosing the activate button.
Test the workflow by choosing Test. The following screen appears.
Now choose Execute to start the workflow.
Now the recipient would receive a work item in his SAP® inbox (Transaction SBWP).
Now execute the work item by pressing Execute. The following screen appears:
Choose one among Approve or Reject as part of the user decision. He can select the third option to retain the work item in his inbox and make the decision later. Now suppose that the recipient has chosen one of the first options. Now a mail would be sent to the requestor with the status of his request.
Creating a Container element
This document details about creation of a container element in workflow and using it in the step "Mail".
Pre-requisites:
It is assumed that the reader of this Tutorial is aware of creating a workflow definition with the step Mail. If not, please go through the document on creating the same available, by clicking here.
Steps:
1. Create a workflow definition using the transaction SWDD.
2. Lets create a container element for Carrier id. Click on the Workflow Container on the left side of the screen (as shown in the screenshot below):
3. Now double-click on Double-Click to Create
4. Enter the details pertaining to CARRID here.
5. Click on tab Properties and select Import.
6. Click on Confirm (Enter).
7. Now the element created could be seen on the left side, below the Workflow Container.
Creating a Container element
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1. Create a Mail step by double-clicking on Undefined step in the workflow.
2. Enter the recipient details in the Recipients box.
3. In the subject line, enter Carrid value entered is: and click on Insert Expression.
4. Select the element Carrid from the list.
5. Similarly enter the content in the Body area.
6. Save and activate the application.
Testing the Workflow application:
7. Test the workflow by clicking F8.
8. Enter the value of the Carrid as shown above and press execute.
9. A mail would be sent to the recipient mentioned earlier with the carrid value entered.
Condition Step
Agenda:
This document details about the steps Condition.
Pre-requisites: It is assumed that the reader of this document has a preliminary understanding of workflow and has worked with the container elements earlier. If not, please go through the first two Tutorials of workflow available in this site. (More details)
Procedure:
1. Create a new workflow definition.
2. Create a container element, CARRID (as demonstrated in tutorial 2).
3. Now click on undefined step and create the step Condition.
4. Enter the step name of your choice.
5. We would have the following condition here:
If carrid = AA.
Do this.
Else.
Do this.
Click on Click here to create a new condition. Following screen appears.
Double click on Carrid. Next click on = and enter the value AA in the constant field and press ENTER.
Enter the outcome names of your choice as shown above.
Click on Transfer and go to graphic.
As shown above, there are two branches here. One navigates to true, if CARRID = AA else the control takes the branch False.
Test the above scenario by inserting mail steps in the above 2 branches and by passing different CARRID values.
Condition Step
Agenda:
This document details about the steps Multiple Condition.
Pre-requisites: It is assumed that the reader of this document has a preliminary understanding of workflow and has worked with the container elements earlier. If not, please go through the first two Tutorials of workflow available in this site. (More details)
Procedure:
1. Create a new workflow definition.
2. Create a container element, CARRID (as demonstrated in tutorial 2).
3. Now click on undefined step and create the step Multiple Condition.
4. Enter the step name of your choice.
5. We would have the following condition here:
If carrid = AA.
Do this.
Elseif carrid = AH
DO this.
Elseif carrid = SQ
Do this.
Else.
Do this.
Select the CARRID using the F4 help for the comparison basis field.
Enter the values of the carrid under the Comparison values with the corresponding outcome name (of your choice)
Double click on Carrid. Next click on = and enter the value AA in the constant field and press ENTER.
Click on Transfer and go to graphic.
As observed above, there are different branches for each value of CARRID mentioned above.
Test the above scenario by inserting mail steps in all the branches and by passing different CARRID values.
Using "Container Operation" step
Agenda: Usage of step Container Operation.
Pre-requisites: It is assumed that the reader of this tutorial has worked in the concepts that are dealt in earlier tutorials. (click here for more details)
Scenario: In this tutorial, we would deal about how to work with the step Container Operation with an example of calculating the available seats by subtracting occupied seats from the maximum seats at the workflow level.
Procedure:
1. Create a new workflow definition using the transaction SWDD.
2. Create two container elements MaxSeats, Occ_Seats with the import property set. You can use the reference fields sflight-seatsmax, sflight-seatsocc for this.
3. Create another container element AvailableSeats without setting either import or export property as this is calculated within the workflow and used within the workflow. You might use any of the above reference fields as data types.
4. Define a new step Container Operation in the workflow definition by double-clicking on the Undefined step.
5. In this step, we would calculate the available seats from the max seats and seats occupied.
I would recommend entering all the container elements from the F4 help instead of typing them manually.
6. Return to the main screen.
7. Create a mail step after this to send the available seats information.
8. Test the above functionality by passing some values to the maximum and the seats occupied.
9. Result would be as follows:
Triggering Events Programmatically
Purpose: This document details the procedure in triggering the business object events programmatically.
Pre-requisites: It is assumed that the reader of this document is aware of the business object concepts and good in ABAP.
Procedure:
In this document, we would take an example of the business object BUS1001006 (Material) and the event CREATED. In general, this event is triggered whenever a material is created using a standard procedure like MM01 or any others. Now we would trigger this event from our own programs.
Following are the screenshots of the business object BUS1001006 and the event CREATED. Go to transaction SWO1 for more information of the business object.
Double-clicking on the key field parameter gives you technical information of the field.
In order to trigger an event programmatically, we would use the function module SWE_EVENT_CREATE.
Following is the sample code to trigger the events programmatically:
REPORT ZDEMO_TRIGGER_EVENT.
DATA: KEY LIKE SWEINSTCOU-OBJKEY.
KEY = '1163'. Material Number (hard-coded)
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EXPORTING
objtype = 'BUS1001006'
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event = 'CREATED'
CREATOR = ' '
TAKE_WORKITEM_REQUESTER = ' '
START_WITH_DELAY = ' '
START_RECFB_SYNCHRON = ' '
NO_COMMIT_FOR_QUEUE = ' '
DEBUG_FLAG = ' '
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EVENT_ID =
TABLES
EVENT_CONTAINER =
EXCEPTIONS
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In order to test whether the event is getting triggered or not, we can make use of Event Trace. Switch on the event trace using the transaction SWELS.
Press Switch On.
Now execute the program developed earlier. Now switch-off the event trace using the same transaction SWELS.
Now go to transaction SWEL. Here you can list out the events triggered in the particular period of time. Here is the event-trace list:
Deadline Monitoring in SAP Workflow
A major advantage of workflow is the ability to monitor the workflow steps according to a predefined schedule. Following are different deadlines that can be monitored against each workflow step:
Requested Start
Latest Start
Requested End
Latest End
In this example, we will define a deadline to the User Decision example created earlier (click here). Following is the screenshot of the application developed using the User Decision example:
We would extend this example to the deadline monitoring.
In the User Decision step, click on the latest end tab.
By default, No deadline monitoring is active (as seen in the above screenshot).
Choose the Work Item Creation from the list box.
After selecting Work Item Creation, chose an offset of 5 minutes. This means that the work item must be executed within 5 minutes of the creation, if not this would trigger.
Deadline Monitoring in SAP Workflow
Enter recipient details to whom the message to be escalated, if the work item is not executed with in 5 minutes after work item creation.
Save and activate the workflow definition.
Testing the workflow application:
Execute your workflow.
Check for the work item in the SAP Inbox. This time do NOT execute the work item.
Wait for the deadline to be triggered. After that, a deadline message is delivered to the recipient mentioned in the Latest End tab. See the screenshot below.
Dont worry if the deadline message doesnt appear immediately after 5 minutes. This depends on various factors including how the deadline monitoring program is scheduled and also on the availability of the background processors.
Use SWWA to check how the deadline monitoring program is scheduled in program.
For example, assume that our work item has been created at 09:10 hrs and the deadline message is expected to trigger at 09:15 hrs. From the above screenshot, it is understood that the background program is scheduled to execute for every 3 minutes. Assume that the last run of the program is at 09:14hrs and the next run is expected at 09:17hrs. So even our deadline expires at 09:15, the deadline message would appear only at 09:17hrs after execution of the background program.
Some more points
In our above example, we have used the deadline on the Work Item creation time. i.e., 5 minutes after creation time, the deadline message would be sent. Now we would check the other option Expression. Here we can mention the date and time, when the deadline message should appear irrespective of the work item creation date/time.
As seen in the above screenshot, we can provide the target date and time by which the task should be finished. Container elements could be used in this case. Please refer to our example on creation of container elements (click here).
Personal Substitute in Workflow
Requirement: Need to have at least one substitute who can act upon work items in your absence.
Important: The appointed substitute would be able to see all your work items. A substitute cannot be assigned for only particular area of organization or any other item. So need to ensure that the substitute have the necessary authorizations to act upon the work items.
Procedure:
1. Go to SAP Business Work Place (TCode: SBWP)
2. Now from the menu bar, select Settings à Workflow settings à Maintain Substitute
3. Highlight/Select the name on the window, in this case SAPDEV02 and click on Create Substitute.
4. List of users available in the system are displayed.
5. Select the required substitute user name. Following screen appears.
Validity field describes about the period in which the setting would be active. Note that the dates on the screen would range from the current date to 31st Dec 9999.
Regarding the checkbox Substitution active, it is advised to leave this checkbox unchecked for system performance reasons. A check in this box indicates that the substitution is permanent and if left unchecked it is treated as as-needed. A permanent substitute will automatically receive the primary users work items in their own box. In the case of as-needed, substitute must manually adopt the work items from the primary users inbox.
6. Save the entries
7. Click Enter to leave the screen.
Adopting a Substitute in Workflow
If you have been designated as an as-needed substitute, you must manually adopt the substitution. If you are designated as a permanent substitute, the work items would automatically appear in the inbox.
Before adopting a substitution, there are 19 work items in the inbox. See the screenshot below:
To adopt a substitution, select Settings à Workflow settings à adopt substitution.
Select the corresponding User-id (if you have been assigned as a substitute for multiple people, then this option would allow you to select the user name of whom you would to check the work items)
The corresponding users work items would appear in our inbox now.
You can end the substitution, by selecting settings à Workflow settings à End substitution.
Note: Substitutes can only adopt work items that are directly routed to the person for whom they are a substitute. If you are a substitute for a user (SAPDEV02) who has been made a substitute for another user (SAPDEV01), you will only see work items for user SAPDEV02 and not of the user SAPDEV01.
Notification of Work Items via e-Mail
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1. Go to Transaction SO13.
2. Click on Automatic Forwarding tab.
3. Click on Create icon .
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5. Click ENTER to complete the entries.
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This document details about the procedure in filtering some of the work items from the SAP inbox using a BADi.
Following is the screenshot of the SAP inbox, before implementing BADi:
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Workflow tutorials with step-by-step and with screenshots are available at http://www.****************/Tutorials/Workflow/Workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/42/c14a9b55103116e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
http://www.sapgenie.com/workflow/
http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/3d/6a9b3c874da309e10000000a114027/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2857887
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2855919
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2735228
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMSTART/BCBMTWFMSTART.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMDEMO/BCBMTWFMDEMO.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMPM/BCBMTWFMPM.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
debug a workflow.
This has a step by step procedure :
http://fuller.mit.edu/workflow/debugging.pdf
www.erpgenie.com/sap/workflow/debugging.htm
http://www.erpgenie.com/workflow/debugging.htm?2b5de440

UCCE 7.2.7/CAD 7.2 SR1 Work Flow Action issue

Greetings,
This is on UCCE 7.2.7 with CAD 7.2 SR1.
Today, I created Agent Management Work Flow Action in CAD (via Desktop Admin). I want all of my agents within a specific Work Flow Group to be logged out at 9pm on workdays.
I choose the event "Time of day", create a rule and an action. The action is "Agent State Control" with value "AgentLogout". I choose to use automated reason codes. After configuration I hit "apply" and, just to be sure, I also sync the Directory Services.
The action is triggered, but the agent still has to choose the reason code to logout. Does this sound familiar to any of you or am I missing someting?
Regards

Assign it in the script.
Let's say you have created the ECC variable "userCADLayout" and you have been into CAD Admin and set this as the field index 252.
And you have created a number of layouts (e.g. Sales, Service) with different enterprise variables, ANI, DNIS etc.
Let's say agent Fred is in both the Sales SG and the Service SG.
Simply set the ECC variable in the script once you have decided its a Sales call or a Service call to the matching string "Sales" or "Service".
So a "Sales" call arrives at Fred's desktop and the arrangement (layout) is appropriate; ditto Service.
Once you have done this one time, you will realize how easy it is. Of ocurse, DON'T MAKE ANY SPELLING MISTAKES. ;-)
Regards,
Geoff

CAD Enterprise Data Association to new work flow

On cad 7.5 ver wanted to know how to associate an new Enterprise Data created to a Work Flow which is not the default.I presenlty have to edit the default Ent Data from Desktop Admin Console to have it reflected on the Agent Desktop.The agent desktop looks like the one attached.Is there a way also to change the names of the ICM Call Variable1 displayed on the agent desktop giving some appropriate name but using ICM Call Variables backend.

I don't know of a way - everyone does it as follows:
Create the ECC variable as (for example) userMyCADVariable and MyCADVariable will be available in Enterprise Data. On the ICM side, copy the contents of the PV into the ECC variable.
Why would this not be OK for you?
On the layouts - the normal way is to define an ECC variable for the layout - say userCADLayout and delete Ent Var 252. Then add CADLayout as 252. In ICM, as you go through the script you can set userCADLayout to (say) "Foo" and create a layout Foo in CAD.
This is all documented - now that you know what to look for, you will be able to understand the CAD Guide.
Regards,
Geoff

Javascript discussion: Variable scopes and functions

Hi,
I'm wondering how people proceed regarding variable scope, and calling
functions and things. For instance, it's finally sunk in that almost
always a variable should be declared with var to keep it local.
But along similar lines, how should one deal with functions? That is,
should every function be completely self contained -- i.e. must any
variables outside the scope of the function be passed to the function,
and the function may not alter any variables but those that are local to
it? Or is that not necessary to be so strict?
Functions also seem to be limited in that they can only return a single
variable. But what if I want to create a function that alters a bunch of
variables?
So I guess that's two questions:
(1) Should all functions be self-contained?
(2) What if the function needs to return a whole bunch of variables?
Thanks,
Ariel

Ariel:
(Incidentally, I couldn't find any way of marking answers correct when I visited the web forums a few days ago, so I gave up.)
It's there...as long as you're logged in at least, and are the poster of the thread.
What I want is to write code that I can easily come back to a few months later
and make changes/add features -- so it's only me that sees the code, but
after long intervals it can almost be as though someone else has written
it! So I was wondering if I would be doing myself a favour by being more
strict about make functions independent etc. Also, I was noticing that
in the sample scripts that accompany InDesign (written by Olav Kvern?)
the functions seem always to require all variables to be passed to it.
Where it is not impractical to do so, you should make functions independent and reusable. But there are plenty of cases where it is impractical, or at least very annoying to do so.
The sample scripts for InDesign are written to be in parallel between three different languages, and have a certain lowest-common-denominator effect. They also make use of some practices I would consider Not Very Good. I would not recommend them as an example for how to learn to write a large Javascript project.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by persistent session. Most of my
scripts are run once and then quit. However, some do create a modeless
dialog (ie where you can interface with the UI while running it), which
is the only time I need to use #targetengine.
Any script that specifies a #targetengine other than "main" is in a persistent session. It means that variables (and functions) will persist from script invokation to invokation. If you have two scripts that run in #targetengine session, for instance, because of their user interfaces, they can have conficting global variables. (Some people will suggest you should give each script its own #targetengine. I am not convinced this is a good idea, but my reasons against it are mostly speculation about performance and memory issues, which are things I will later tell you to not worry about.)
But I think you've answered one of my questions when you say that the
thing to avoid is the "v1" scope. Although I don't really see what the
problem is in the context of InDesign scripting (unless someone else is
going to using your script as function in one of theirs). Probably in
Web design it's more of an issue, because a web page could be running
several scripts at the same time?
It's more of an issue in web browsers, certainly (which I have ~no experience writing complex Javascript for, by the way), but it matters in ID, too. See above. It also complicates code reuse across projects.
Regarding functions altering variables: for example, I have a catalog
script. myMasterPage is a variable that keeps track of which masterpage
is being used. A function addPage() will add a page, but will need to
update myMasterPage because many other functions in the script refer to
that. However, addPage() also needs to update the total page count
variable, the database-line-number-index-variable and several others,
which are all used in most other functions. It seems laborious and
unnecessary to pass them all to each function, then have the function
alter them and return an array that would then need to be deciphered and
applied back to the main variables. So in such a case I let the function
alter these "global" (though not v1) variables. You're saying that's okay.
Yes, that is OK. It's not a good idea to call that scope "global," though, since you'll promote confusion. You could call it...outer function scope, maybe? Not sure; that assumes addPage() is nested within some other function whose scope is containing myMasterPage.
It is definitely true that you should not individually pass them to the function and return them as an array and reassign them to the outer function's variables.
I think it is OK for addPage() to change them, yes.
Another approach would be something like:
(function() {
var MPstate = {
    totalPages: 0,
    dbline: -1
function addPage(state) {
    state.totalPages++;
    state.dbline=0;
    return state;
MPstate = addPage(MPstate);
I don't think this is a particularly good approach, though. It is clunky and also doesn't permit an easy way for addPage() to return success or failure.
Of course it could instead do something like:
    return { success: true, state: state };
var returnVal = addPage(MPstate);
if (returnVal.success) { MPstate = returnVal.state; }
but that's not very comforting either. Letting addPage() access it's parent functions variables works much much better, as you surmised.
However, the down-side is that intuitively I feel this makes the script
more "messy" -- less legible and professional. (On the other hand, I
recall reading that passing a lot of variables to functions comes with a
performance penalty.)
I think that as long as you sufficiently clearly comment your code it is fine.
Remember this sort of thing is part-and-parcel for a language that has classes and method functions inside those classes (e.g. Java, Python, ActionScript3, C++, etc.). It's totally reasonable for a class to define a bunch of variables that are scoped to that class and then implement a bunch of methods to modify those class variables. You should not sweat it.
Passing lots of variables to functions does not incur any meaningful performance penalty at the level you should be worrying about. Premature optimization is almost always a bad idea. On the other hand, you should avoid doing so for a different reason -- it is hard to read and confusing to remember when the number of arguments to something is more than three or so. For instance, compare:
addPage("iv", 3, "The rain in spain", 4, loremIpsumText);
addPage({ name: "iv", insertAfter: 3, headingText: "The rain in spain",
numberColumns: 4, bodyText: loremIpsumText});
The latter is more verbose, but immensely more readable. And the order of parameters no longer matters.
You should, in general, use Objects in this way when the number of parameters exceeds about three.
I knew a function could return an array. I'll have to read up on it
returing an object. (I mean, I guess I intuitively knew that too -- I'm
sure I've had functions return textFrames or what-have-you),
Remember that in Javascript, when we say Object we mean something like an associative array or dictionary in other languages. An arbitrary set of name/value pairs. This is confusing because it also means other kinds of objects, like DOM objects (textFrames, etc.), which are technically Javascript Objects too, because everything inherits from Object.prototype. But...that's not what I mean.
So yes, read up on Objects. They are incredibly handy.

Urgent : Work flow in ABAP

Hi friends,
kinkly send me about Work flow. Also send me step by step procedure on how to do work flow. Thanks in advance.

Hi,
check the below links
REfer this link:
There is a good book from SAP Press that I would
recommend as a starting point.It's called Practical Workflow for SAP and it is by Alan Rickayzen.
http://www.sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H950
Workflow
http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a5/172437130e0d09e10000009b38f839/frameset.htm
For examples on WorkFlow...check the below link..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/3d/6a9b3c874da309e10000000a114027/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
Go through the following links on FORK :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/24/e2283f2bbad036e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8d/25f1e7454311d189430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://www.insightcp.com/res_23.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMSTART/BCBMTWFMSTART.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMDEMO/BCBMTWFMDEMO.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMPM/BCBMTWFMPM.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
Work Flow
1) Goto Tcode PFTC : Standard Task > Create Button>Workflow Templete
For Create Container
Element : ZBUS1001006
Name : ANy Name
Description
Data Type & Properties
Data Type:
select Object Type : BOR Object Type for BUS1001006
Properties:
Parameter Settingd : check all Import, Export & Mandatory Checkboxes
Basic Data :
Abbr : Create_View
Name : Some Name
Work Item Text : Create View Material & -
Click on DELE Button & Select Material From The List
Object Catagory : BOR Object Type
Object Type : BUS1001006
Method : View
Triggering Events
Obj Catagory Object Type Event
BOR Object BUS1001006 View
activate it
Enter on BUS1001006 Object Type you will get Quadratel<> Button after that
double click on Quadratel<> button you get green button
after that the system will generate the task No.
check in the Event linkage Tcode : SWETYPV
if you find an entry with your Workflow and linkage active
goto Tcode : SWEC click on New Entries
Change Doc Obje Obj Cat Obj Type Event on create
Material BOJ Obje BUS1001006 View Option Button(Checked)
save this
goto Tcode : SWEC
Change Doc Object : Material
Obj Catagoty : BOR Type
Obj Type : BUS1001006
Event : View
Check with On Create Button
Goto SWETYPV
Obj Catagoty : BOR Type
Obj Type : BUS1001006
Event : View
Receiver Type : Some Work Flow No: WS80000431 like this
Click on Work flow Builder
~~Guduri

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