Workflow explanation

Hi guys,
I have a potential customer that tells me he wants to automate some processes by getting the info (docs, scanned papers, id papers, etc.) from his customers, then it will start an approval or declined subprocess for that customer.
After that, he wants to check those documents via Content management, and he thinks that UCM could be the solution for his needs.
What I think is that he's asking for a BPM and the UCM (Workflow) is for getting approval or decline for the publishing of the documents in a portal for example.
Am I right?
Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
Part of the functionality of UCM is Document Management and workflow's . I am guessing that your client needs to direct these documents into his business processes. DM in UCM is just a thing for that.
BPM is used when integrating several solutions through one business process.

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I work for a large publishing company that publishes thousands of titles per year. Several divisions use Indesign, but only our Publishing Division uses the Indesign/Incopy workflow, and they are the only division experiencing widespread crashing in CS5. The divisions who do not use Incopy are not crashing. Here's what we know causes the crashing in Indesign CS5:
1. Exporting stories to Incopy. This is a widespread, yet inconsistent problem. One time you crash, the next time you don't. We've done the IDML export to CS4, reopened the files and saved as CS5. This helped with some files, but not others. I talking about hundreds of different publications and files. All people are patched to the newest version. Some are on Snow Leopard and some are not. However, I'm on Snow Leopard and the crashing does happen on my computer too (sometimes). The problem continues. I've found workaround for some problems, but there's no workaround for exporting to Incopy. It's something you have to do in this workflow.
2. Saving an Indesign files with an Incopy story checked out. This will cause a crash almost every time. We've been in the Indesign/Incopy workflow since CS2 and never had this problem in the past. This is an easy fix; just make sure you check in stories before saving, but it's a hard habit for some to break.
These issues have been reported to Adobe, with absolutely NO explanation or resolution. After six years in this workflow, I'm at the point of having to consider abandoning Incopy -- not an easy thing to do in such a large organization.

After 2 days straight, I FIGURED IT OUT!!!! I was trying everything, especially related to font book and fonts and resetting prefs, etc...
I narrowed it down to 1 constant variable: it's happening on the 2012 macbook's, so I reset my mac and held command + R and re-installed Lion, then I DID NOT INSTALL THE UPDATE FOR THE MACBOOK 2012. Then I tried exporting a smallest file size pdf with overset text and also tried deleting a page with an object on it and BAM! No blank warning dialog and even more importantly: NO MORE CRASHES!!! Hey, I might not lose all my clients afterall!
got the good ol' warning box we all love and missed:
Again:
- power off mac and turn back on while holding down Command + R (dont do it on an external keyboard just to be safe)
- choose the re-install Lion option (I'm sure there is another way to re-install Lion, this is just the way I did it, not saying its the best or only method)
- DO NOT INSTALL MACBOOK (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0 - THIS SCREWS ADOBE UP!
After you guys try this please let us know how your system is operating, I am noticing my macbook pro is so slow and when trying to send an email and choosing an email to reply to and attach something,etc.. each click triggers the beachball and I gotta wait a few moments..?? I'm sure we might be missing out on some good updates from not updating to the 1.0 software update....but....
So my final question is:
is this Apple's problem or Adobe's and who needs to do what here??? Why can't we all get along...

HCM = FI: Posting an IDOC via Workflow

Hello,
I hope I'm right here in this part of the forum. In addition I hope my explanations will be good enough to understand.
Every month the HCM-System send IDOCs (payment of salary) to the FI-System. Everything works well (in partner profile (WE20) we used message types ACC_EMPLOYEE_EXP, ACC_EMPLOYEE_PAY, ACC_EMPLOYEE_REC, PDTCO_POSTPRIMARY und PLANDATATRANSFERCO_POSTKEYFIGU (all inbound parameters) and process code BAPI is attached). Every payment is automatically and fully posted in FI.
Latter the FI accounting clerks do not want. They do want to decide when the IDOCs are posted into the FI. What we've done so far ist that we've changed the process code BAPI at the above mentioned message types into ED00. ED00 uses the standard task TS30200088 for generating a workitem in the BWP of a or some users. That's exactly what we want, no instant posting but self-decided action through the clerk. The only problem is that the standard task only displays the IDOC as seen in BD87. The process then can be terminated via the menu and the status of the IDOC changes to 53, but no FI posting has been processed what's not very amazing 'cause the standard task only displays the IDOC. Now my questions:
1. Is there any process code which comes with an appropriate SAP-Standard-Workflow to fulfil the request of the FI users (keeping the IDOC in Workflow status until the user executes the workitem which leads to posting of the IDOC)?
2. If not, do I have to create a new process code and do I have to create an own Workflow?
3. If all that would not help what else can I do?
In advance many thanks for your help.
Kind regards,
Frank
Edited by: Frank Zieger on Oct 21, 2011 11:40 AM

Hi,
U have to use the lookup.
1) pass the customer no to R3 system as input to function module.
2) IN function module check whether that customer no present or not?
3) Based on that u send a result back to Xi and go ahead.
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chirag

Approval status not captured in the workflow...

Hi,
In my 4 tier approval workflow, I have a user decision loop , before which a user decision step is there for approve or reject.
There are two paths under user decision, one says when reject or approve and another says till last layer which then leads to container operation to collect the next level of agent.
Under when reject or approve step, there is a condition step that checks if user has approved or rejected.
Now I need to store in a custom table status R if rejected , status A if approved.
So I have added 2 steps under each path (approve and reject), but it so happens that when the first tier agent rejects it, the status gets recorded in the custom table but when he approves it , A status is not updated.
If the first agent approves and second one (final) approves only then A is updated.
I want the status to be recorded like this
agent1     Submitted for approval
This should change to agent 1    approved and then another entry should be added in the custom table with submitted for approval for agent 2.
My code is in a custom class and it looks fine as it wors for submitted for approval as well for reject. But not for Approved. Container objects in both reject and approve are same except that I pass A or R.
What can be wrong ??
thnks

HI
First let me give a breif explanation about how and where the result of the decision step is captured.
While creating a decision step in the workflow you would be giving some texts for each outcome, let say in your case you said that For both approve and reject you are using one branch (Assume that id of this branch is 0001) now the other branch is for reading the next level agent (0002) so now when you click on the first button then the Decision workitem standard container element WIRESULT will be populated with 0001 and let say if you clcik on the second button to read the next level approver then WIRESULT will be populated with 0002..
    Here your design is conflicting ( Assuming that what I said above is what you have implemented) Instead what you can try to do is Just have two outcome in the decision step as 1. Approve(0001) 2. Reject (0002) , now two braches will be coming out of decision step , now getting the next level agent keep it in a different background task, by creating a separate BOR method. Insert this task in both the branches.....
The remaining activities what ever you are perfoming to update the table you do it normally... as you did
Regards
Pavan
Edited by: Pavan Bhamidipati on Dec 7, 2010 11:05 AM

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