SAP Workflow

SAP Workflow : A comprehensive guide to Troubleshooting and Debugging

Apart from the Begineers guide to workflow, this is an another comprehensive guide to know more about workflow.

SAP Workflow: Troubleshooting and Debugging (PDF File)

Contents :

1. Introduction
2. Primary Components
3. Base Line Configuration
4. Event Debugging1
5. Problem1 Event Linkage
6. Resolution to Problem 1
7. Problem 2 Event Parameters
8. Resolution A to Problem 2
9. Resolution B to Problem 2
10. Additional Event Information
11. Agent Resolution Debugging
12. Problem 3 Agent Resolution
13. Resolution to Problem 3
14. Workflow Task (Method) Debugging
15. Foreground (Dialog) Tasks
16. Background (Synchronous) Tasks
17. Summary of Trouble Shooting Transactions

SAP Workflow for Begineers – Step by Step Guide

Workflow is nothing but the path a process takes based on a certain set of procedural
rules. They may be very simple as approvals or rejections or very complex as getting
many levels of approvals based on conditions for the release of a purchase order where
many departments are involved…

Download the entire article from SAP Workflow for Begineers .

SAP Workflow Scenarios

Here is a compiled collection of docs on SAP Workflow. These are sap help documents compiled for easy use.

SAP Business Workflow
SAP Business Workflow Demo Examples

General Logistics Workflow Scenarios
Integration with SAP Business Workflow
Real Estate Management: Workflow Scenarios
Sales and Distribution (SD) Workflow Scenarios
Treasury: Workflow Scenarios
Cross-Application Components: Workflow Scenarios
Materials Management: Workflow Scenarios
Personnel Management: Workflow Scenarios
Plant Maintenance & Customer Service: Workflow Scenario
Production Planning & Control Workflow Scenarios
Quality Management: Workflow Scenarios

Other Workflow Docs to learn
Archiving Application Data (FI)
Entering Planning Data in the Workflow (CO-PA)
Expert Mode

SAP Workflow Training Reference

Learn the tools and associated components of SAP Business Workflow

• Create workflow definition
• Use templates that are delivered
• Understand options for task routing and responsibilities
• See the power of workflow and obtain a realistic view of what it can do for you
• Monitor the runtime environment

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Course Contents on SAP Workflow Contains

1. Course overview
2. Introduction
3. What is Workflow
4. Business Workplace
5. Workflow Architecture
6. Organizational Structure
7. Templates & Workflow Definition
8. Business Objects and its Builder
9. Tasks
10. Containers & Bindings
11. Routing
12. Deadlines
13. Events
14. Workflow Wizards
15. Reporting
16. Workflow Integration with Different Platforms
17. Programming in Workflow
18. Reference & Glossary

Creating an SAP Distribution List

This procedure will be used to email report(s) alerting various departments/persons: Sales Engineers, Pricing Analysts and/or the Plant.

Due to the ability of this process to impact multi distribution lists, access to performing this task should be limited to specified personnel.

Download the Guide to Create SAP Distribution List using SBWP.

Workflow for Dummies

Workflows Introduction gives the basic details about the workflow usage as a tool and the features involved. The details about the workflow builder will be covered. In the subsequent parts, more details about the runtime analysis tools of workflows will be discussed.

Using SAP Business workflows, one can define the business processes that are not yet mapped into SAP system. Workflows are suitable for the situations where the given task is executed repeatedly or when the large number of people is involved in the completion of that work. Workflows can be used in conjunction with the existing business scenarios e.g. during the standard functionality errors or exceptions occurs then workflow can be triggered on these actions. There are lots of standard workflows available from SAP for different areas like Sales & Distribution (SD), Travel Management (TV), Treasury (TR), General Logistics (LO), and Personnel Management (PA) etc.

Download the PDF document on Workflow for Dummies (2892)

SAP Workflow Tutorial

SAP workflow tutorial on working with Object Definition and Implementation, Standard Tasks (Pftc), Event Definition And Implementation, Rule Definition and Implementation, Triggering an Event Explicitly by programming, process a work item in exceptional cases and starting a workflow via the work item manager API. When implementing a workflow in SAP you will often notice that the object types supplied by SAP do not meet your requirements fully. In these cases, you must extend an existing object type by creating a customer specific subtype for it.

Have a look at the simple tutorial with screenshots which explain in detail all the steps involved in get extending an workflow object to meet the client requirements. Download the tutorial here (2492).

SAP Workflow Troubleshooting Guide

This article focuses on practical techniques used to assist in the debugging and resolving workflow issues during the development and production support phases of SAP implementations. The SAP Workflow application incorporates the use of several components, i.e. graphical editing tool (workflow builder), some object orientated concepts (use of the Business Object Repository), ABAP, and a hook/trigger mechanism into one of the SAP application modules (FI, CO, MM, etc). As business requirements are mapped into a workflow process definition and prototyping starts, debugging becomes an essential tool to expedite the implementation of workflow process.

We will concentrate on using debugging techniques to resolve real world workflow implementation and production support issues. Before we begin let’s list some preliminary assumptions and guidelines:

• The workflow engine has been enabled
• We are working with SAP Release 46C. There are significant changes and enhancement in release 6.1/6.2 SAP workflow technology
• The user should be familiar with basic workflow configuration and development, e.g. the workflow type ‘TS’ is a single step task and type ‘WS’ is a multi-step task.

Since workflow has many different elements, starting the debugger is not as straight forward as with a stand alone ABAP program. To illustrate the best way to step in and resolve issues by debugging we will start by looking at a COPY of the standard SAP workflow template for the overall release of MM purchase requisitions.

The debugging principles applied may be used with any workflow templates (customer defined or standard). A custom workflow template (WS) is being used to illustrate the use of debugging concepts on background tasks. A new custom single step task (TS) has been created for notifying the creator of the purchase requisition release and replaces the DIALOG FOREGROUND TASK that requests the creator manually confirm a work item.

Download the manual which will teach you about Event debugging, Agent Resolution Debugging and Workflow task(method) debugging.

View/Download the SAP Workflow troubleshooting manual (2071).