What are the different types of WF Agents? 1.

Possible Agents Users who are authorized to execute the task 2.Responsible Agents the users to whom the work item was sent: The WI will be sent only to people who are possible agents. 3. Actual Agents Actual user who executed the dialog task 4.Excluded Agents Users who are not supposed to execute the dialog task (even if they are in possible agents)

What are the agent determination techniques? Rule Resolution with responsibility: Helpful when a set of static positions are responsible for action. Rule resolution with Function (FM): Helpful when agents are determined dynamically from business logic. Rule resolution with OM: Usually used in CRM. Have not used Rule resolution with Function, but asynchronously: This is through a class and a method. Initially WI is created in status ready without agent. Later agent is assigned. This is suitable for agent determination having complex logic. Users: Rarely used. OM objects (Position, Org Unit, work center) Expression: A container element containing the agents. Containers Workflow Container: Task Container: SWC_GET_CONTAINER SWC_GET_TABLE SWC_SET_CONTAINER SWC_SET_TABLE Event Container: Method Container: Rule Container: For resolving rules Business Objects Key Fields: Attributes: Database: Automatically gets populated by system code Virtual: You determine the content and use SWC_SET_CONTAINER to populate Methods: Can be created using FM, Transaction, Report, Dialog Module, Other Synchronous: Finish execution before handling the control back to the task. Asynchronous: Return the control back immediately. Cannot have export parameters. They

depend on events to return results back to the calling program. Dialog: Something to user Background: Cannot have messages or exceptions

what are the options to implement method of a BO? FM BAPI Tcode Dialog Module Report Other (BO program) How to extend a BO? Got SWO1 and enter a BO that you want to extend. Click on New Subtype Give all the details. Go back to SW01, enter the BO, and go to Settings Delegate. Example: BUS7051: Notification, BUS1001: Material, BUS2012: Purchase Order, BUS1065: Employee Various status of BO Modeled: Not accessible at runtime Implemented: Not ready to be used, Internal use only Released: For customer to use Obsolete: Dont use anymore To change attribute values from methods of a BO SWC_GET_CONTAINER SWC_SET_CONTAINER Events: How to create Events? HR Tables: SWEHR2/3 ABAP Code user Exit: SWE_EVENT_CREATE Change Document: SWEC Status management: Message Control: Event Linkage: SWE2 Subtype: Key field cannot be created. Methods and attributes can be created. Delegate: If you want to change the functionality of a method, define a sub type, redefine the method,

delegate the parent business object to child object. Interface Interface is a combination of Attributes, Methods and Events, to reduce the redundancy in definition. IFSAP: Common interface for all BOs. It has following methods Method: Display Method: Existence Check Attribute; Object Type Different Workflow Steps activities Condition: Multiple Conditions: Until Loop: Fork: Send Mail: Container Operations: Event Creator: Wait Event: Process Control Different deadline conditions Requested Start: When this date is met, only then the work item will start execution, or available for taking action (dialog). Latest Start: When a date mentioned here is met, it can send an email, or can be modeled to do something action. Requested End: Same as Latest Start Latest End: Same as Latest Start Important Tcodes Workflow Toolbox: SWUS Simulate Event: SWU0 Business Object Repository: SW01 Event Trace: SWEL (S) Work items per task: SWI2_FREQ SWUE: Event simulate SWEL: Event log SWELS: Set event log ON SWE2: Linkage between Event and Workflow SWEHR2: Event linkage in HR SWU3: Workflow customizing SWU_OBUF: Synchronize buffers SWI5: Look into other users SBWP What are the Important background Jobs for workflow?: SWWDHEX For deadline monitoring SWWERRE For error Monitoring

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Workflow experience: What are the workflows created by you? Worked upon by you? Function Module that creates workflow SAP_WAPI_START_WORKFLOW: SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT SAP_WAPI_WORKITEM_RECIPIENTS SAP_WAPI_GET_WORKITEM_DETAIL When an info type action is performed, an event should trigger, and a workflow subsequently. How can I configure it? Answer: Tcode SWEHR2 When an info type action is performed, an FM should trigger, and a workflow subsequently. How can I configure it? Answer: Tcode SWEHR2 Workflow is not triggering... what can be the reason? What are the different ways of triggering a workflow? Triggering Events, which are set up in SWE2 (generic), SWEHR2 (HR) SAP_WAPI_START_WORKFLOW Workflow triggered, but it did not come to the user, why? What are the difference between a Business Object and a Class? How to achieve dynamic parallel processing? There are three ways a parallel processing can be implemented Dynamic parallel processing using a multi-line container element Fork (3 out of 5) Work queue In dynamic processing the type of each entry in the table have to be of same type. Same task will be processed for each line of the multi-line container. It can be a dialog or background task. Deadline monitoring, binding, agent determination will be same for each work item generated To achieve, go to Miscellaneous in the activity, and enter the multi line container element.

How to notify a user immediately in R/3 that he has got an email? Mark the priority as 1 Express How can we debug a workflow? If it is a dialog task, you can set breakpoint in the method called by the task If it is a method that you want to debug, use SWO1, and create a instance of the object and debug the methods If it is a background method, and you are in development client, you can do the following. Create

an infinite loop in the method you want to debug. Go to SM50 (processes overview) and select the relevant item, and select debug from option.

Huge number of events is getting created in a short duration of time, and thus creating a huge load on the system and making it very slow. Solution? Enable event queue. It will ensure that triggered events are received in a phased manner. This needs to be done while providing event linkages. Why Process Control is used? What are its features? Process Control is used to manipulate another work item of the workflow during runtime. Process Control is usually used to model the workflow when deadlines are reached. SAP offers 4 standard behaviors as part of process control. Cancel Work item: Target WI is logically deleted. Subsequent tasks are not executed. Precondition is that Process control and the target WI have to be in different branches of the same fork. Set Work item to obsolete: The target WI is set to complete, and processing continues in the branch processing obsolete. Cancel Workflow: Current workflow is set to Complete. If this is the sub workflow, then the control goes to super-ordinate workflow. Complete (terminate) Workflow: Same as above, but the branch of super-ordinate workflow which contains the current sub-workflow will not be continued. Cancel Workflow including all callers: Same as above, but all callers also will be COMPLETEd. What is the integration point with ESS Portal? Tcode SWFVISU Portal config file for UWL what are the types of work items? Dialog Work item - W Background work item Workflow work item Work queue work item missed deadline work item: When a deadline is missed a missed deadline work item with the message appears in inbox What are the different statuses of a work item? Waiting Ready Reserved In process Executed (confirm end of processing in task definition) Completed Logically deleted Error

Difference between Asynchronous and Synchronous methods in a task A work item created as part of synchronous in locked until end of the method execution. But in asynchronous, work item is locked only until start of method execution. At least one terminating event is required for a task using Asynchronous task what is the use of secondary methods in an Activity? A modal call before work item executing after work item execution what is the BO method called for the task which calls UWL WD screens? Why? EXTSRV --> PROCESS what are Programmer exits? And why are they used? What is the use of Advance with dialog? If this indicator is set for an activity, workflow system checks if the processer of current task is also a recipient for next task. If yes, then the next task will be executed immediately