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SAP Business Workflow – How to Learn

Andy — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:53:04 +0000

I’m learning the SAP business workflow these days for my next project. I didn’t develop any SAP business workflow before in the real project and just have some basic concept of it. In order to help myself as well as other SAP workflow beginner to learn it, I divided the whole monster into below pieces. There are many roles involved into the SAP business workflow – process consultant, developer, administrator and end user. People doesn’t need to become the expert in all these components and just the components used in your daily work will be sufficient. I will try to explain each component. Please correct me if I was wrong. I’m also the freshman to this area.:-)

SAP Business Workflow – Starting workflows manually

Andy — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:46:23 +0000

There are several ways to start the tasks and workflows. Starting workflows manually means that the workflow is not started by a triggering event but manually. It is irrelevant whether triggering events are defined for the workflow.

Note: you can only start workflow manually if you are entered as a possible agent or the workflow template is marked as the ‘General Task’.

Step 1. Set all the involved task to ‘General Task’ to allow all the users to be the possible agents.

ABAP Tutorial – Create a custom Object Type in BOR from scratch

Andy — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:48:06 +0000

SAP Object Type is the object-oriented modeling of business objects such as sales order, customer, vendor. All these Object Types are stored in BOR (Business Object Repository) which acts as the central repository for all the object type definition. BAPIs are defined as methods of SAP business object types (or SAP interface types). The Object Type is also the foundation of SAP business workflow.

Below is a great tutorial on how to create a custom object type in BOR step-by-step. I finished this guide today and found it is quite useful. I would like to share it with my blog audiences.

Tutorial: Workflow Programming

Generate Business Object Event in the program

Andy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:52:03 +0000

An event is created from any application program and published system-wide. Any number of receivers can react to the event. For example, the create event of sales order may trigger an approval workflow. Events that you want to use must be defined as components of an object type. Events are published without the creating application knowing whether a receiver reacts to them. The event manager checks whether there are active linkages for the published event.