Workflow changes - send reminder email on X - 1 days ... based on Molga

Question

Hello Everyone,
       I new to workflow and I came across a workflow scenario where I am confuse, that what should I do in order to make it work. Luckily we are running only one workflow in the system which is time off request, We copied standard workflow class u201CCL_PT_REQ_WF_ATTRIBSu201D to Z version and introduced some new method to send email to employees managers as well as employee and HR .
We also have something called workflow item cancel thing . Lets say if workflow is not approved by manger within X bossiness days it got cancel and employee has to submit the new time off request again. After doing a little bit research I came to know that there is standard job which checks and calculate the X days thing. Work flow is running fine from last 1 year.
Last week, we been asked to create reminder from X-1 day and sends to employee manager saying u201C This is a reminder and one day is left u201C  .
   I wanted to know how I can achieve that, I have to filter the employee by reading employeeu2019s molga as we want to do it for specific countries  then I have to read employee manager which I can do using different FM and then I have to send email to employee's manager .
Like I said It should happen BEFORE x-1 business days when employee submits the time off u2026   
Here what I am thinking , I  can read table u201CSWWWIHEADu201D  with field WI_TYPE = u2018Wu2019 .  and  pass work_id to FM " SWW_WI_CONTAINER_READ "  and read the container like the  INCLUDE  MWS20000081HO01
  CALL FUNCTION 'SWW_WI_CONTAINER_READ'
         EXPORTING
              wi_id                    = wi_id
            READ_FOR_UPDATE          = ' '                         *
         TABLES
              wi_container             = wi_container
         EXCEPTIONS
              container_does_not_exist =  1      "message from function
              others                   = 99.
    IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
      SWC_GET_ELEMENT WI_CONTAINER 'ACTUALSTATE' ACTUALSTATE130100.
    ELSE.
      CLEAR ACTUALSTATE130100.
    ENDIF.
    IF ACTUALSTATE130100 = 'N'.
      CALL TRANSACTION 'WS20000081M'.
      LEAVE PROGRAM.
    ENDIF.
From container I can read employee number and approver . Get molga via  pernr and can filter the employee ..who ever submits the request system date u2013 4 .. I can send out the reminder email u2026
Is there any other way around or any other efficient way of doing that u2026 I hope  you understand this thing is conditional u2026 As far as I am concern I new to workflow so please bear with me ..
Waiting
Khan
FYI- I have gone through several post which task about deadlines monitoring Etc .. using fork & wait blah blah .. but It didnu2019t get any clue where to start and how to start u2026

Answer 1

Mike,
        I think I am following you so for .. so here what I did ... I opened the "approve process" and slap in the same refer date/time in "Requested end date " with variables "&WFDATA.DEADLINEDATE&" "&WFDATA.DEADLINETIME&"  with 1- DAY . I didnu2019t find this what it says in help " It is possible to specify a negative time interval. Negative time   intervals should only be used in connection with an expression as a   reference date/time. You then have the option of "backward deadlines"
Any way after that I changed action to "modeled" and say "outcome "reminder from UK " .
it creates a node with clock sign , now like you said , I can do many  things here .. and I really need to do something for example , I need to check the employee if he/she is from UK , after that reads his/her manager and send an email to mangeru2019s outbox . UK gave us an email format which I have created in t-code SE60 - with Document Class "Dialog Text".
How to proceed further. Thanks for baby sitting me.
What I am thinking , I need to create a new activity as well as new method in my Zclass, in which I will check employee Molga  i.e. U.K and I have to send out email based on my email text which I have created in SE61.
Iu2019m able to write code in existing method , being on the safe side I copied the existing workflow and made changes in to it . Now it comes to debugging part , Iu2019m able to find posts on SDN talks about workflow debugging . When I am entering time off request from ESS , and it is not stopping at external breakpoint , Also when I am looking at "PTARQ"  to see submit WF items . It is showing me the old task "w90000012" which is original one and I copied it and my task is "w90000022" . What I have to do  so when I submit time off request via ESS it calls my task . I created Task in PFTC . But nothing is happening . Please let me know what I am missing ..
I found the table for ESS  leave request and able to see my task  , Table name is "u2022     V_T554S_WEB"
But still waiting for answers the of above questions ...
Edited by: Saquib Khan on May 27, 2008 9:36 AM