Workflow API

Hi Folks,
Are there any workflow API that could be used in third party tools (java based), basically we want to monitor workflow notifications from third party tools and send the notifications to different channels like email, SMS and other applications.
Thanks in Advance,
Anil

Sheesh... I am sorry my original post offended you and I did not know that there was a rule against answering someone's question after someone else had answered it.
This is not to prove that I am right, it's about SDN community and correct information appearing in a searchable forum that is not misleading. Please do not see this as a personal attack. If I have a different opinion I will say I disagree, if I know something is wrong I will say so. If you post on a public forum you should be prepared for criticism when wrong (as I have been too).
In my first post I made no reference to your post whatsoever but merely responded to the original question in a polite and helpful manner, yet you responded to me that "Everyone knows what WAPI stands for..." (complete nonsense and a little rude) and misleading information about remote-enabled functions. (BTW, I did have a look on my present system and found only one that wasn't).
For the record (and to help Anil and anyone reading this):
WAPIs, BAPIs and whatever xAPIs should follow certain rules, amongst others: no dialog, no exceptions, no COMMIT WORK, be remotely callable, should not access memory or call transactions or reports. You can research this yourself. As APIs are released for customer use, SAP are obliged to correct their functions if they don't follow the rules.
Concerning SRM-Wapis, I have never seen them so I may be technically incorrect here (and a little surprised to find out they are in an ECC system) but should still only be used in an SRM context.
Then again I did say "unless the sap doc is incorrect" and curiosity got the better of me so I had a look in the help. Accordingly "The released function modules of the SAP WAPI interface are in the development class SWR .". I guess SRM WAPIs are in the SRM docs... go figure
Cheers,
Mike

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Matt,
It looks like another person had a similar question before, see the following thread:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/9697836/can-use-axl-or-other-api-get-calls-progress
Also, according to the comments seen on that post, I was able to find the JTAPI developers guide, see more information below:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/jtapi_dev/8_6_1/jtapidevguide/overview.html
If this still does not satisfy your question then, the best you can do is post this inquiry on the Cisco Developer Network on the following link:
https://developer.cisco.com/site/devnet/home/index.gsp
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ITEMKEY IN VARCHAR2,
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RESULTOUT OUT VARCHAR2
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l_delivery_name VARCHAR2(30);
x_return_status VARCHAR2(10);
x_error_message VARCHAR2(2000);
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PW Warehouse Change
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l_organization_id org_organization_definitions.organization_id%TYPE;
l_ship_from_org_id oe_order_lines_all.ship_from_org_id%TYPE;
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x_return_status
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itemkey,
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resultout := 'COMPLETE:FAIL';
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I'm opening up an old thread, because it seems reasonably relevant to my problem.
If I'm using database users as my workflow users, can I send them e-mail notifications? The view wf_user populates the e-mail column with contents of the column username from dba_users -- so clearly this column will never contain a valid e-mail address (unless there are varying versions of this view and I have the wrong one installed for my purposes).
And can anyone point me to the relevant documentation on this. I've gone through the Admin Guide and the Developers Guide.
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I have a bunch of Human Tasks in a BPMN process. Each task is pretty simple -- for assignment a single stage only; parallel approval; list of participants is passed in -- via the task payload -- as a comma-delimited list. When the task is initiated it produces a root task, and one child task for each participant. So, say we have participants "fgolfer,atreyvaud" we get three task objects: the "master" or root task and one each for fgolfer and atreyvaud.
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Regards
Edited by: C.Karukkuvel on Aug 5, 2010 1:00 AM

Hi Philippe
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