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SAP Business Workflow Extended Notifications PDF
SAP Business Workflow Extended Notifications PDF
notifications
Motivation
Automatic Notifications
Motivation
The longest duration in a process is the wait time
Prod. Planner
Purchaser
Wait time
Accountant
Wait time
Additional Motivation
SAP MAPI and Lotus Notes Integration are being phased out
(see SAP Note 627397)
Reasons
Components above are highly groupware-specific and not vulnerable
to groupware patches operating system changes
Fat client installations are expensive and difficult to roll-out on a
large scale
Replacement is needed
Motivation
Automatic Notifications
collect workitems
Extended
Notifications
SAP GUI or Portal UWL
End user
send e-mails
process workitem
Email
Email client
Flavours of Notifications
RSWUWFML
Report RSWUWFML
Polling report
Uses SMTP/SAPconnect mail connection
Uses SAP Offices auto-forward address
Availability: >= 3.1I
Releases Supported
>6.40
6.40
6.20
Extended
Notifications
6.10
4.6
RSWUWFML2
<4.6
SAP MAPI
RSWUWFML
Individual Notifications
Individual mails
possible on a
work item by
work item basis
Or.
Index of
work items
Workitem
Description
Generic Decision
Shortcut links
Redefinable Text
Notification Framework
Application
Workflow
Notification Framework
User 1
User 2
User 1
Application Object
(Workitem)
User 2
Application Object
(Workitem)
User 2
Application Object
(Workitem)
SAP MAPI
RSWUWFML
RSWUWML2
Extended
Notifications
Generic decisions
Feature
Configuring System
SWN_SELSEN is the batch that has to be planned to run
periodically. You can run this directly for test purposes.
Transaction SWNCONFIG is for advanced configuration.
Transaction SWNADMIN is for basic administration.
Subscription
SMS
Selection A
Category
Selection B
Selection C
Tasks
Tasks
Tasks
(links the
collection to
the delivery)
Subscription
e-mailstyle 1
Subscription
e-mailstyle 2
Selection
Subscription
How recent
Update or all
Tasks
Frequency of arrival
Receiving agent
Plain or HTML
Individual mails or
summary
Decisions
Attachments and
URLs
General
Prefix/Suffix
Receiving Agent
Subscription
Subject, Prefix
General
Index of work
items
Subscription
Message Granularity
Task
Selection
Work item
Description
Subscription
Generic Decision
Subscription
Subscription
Customizing steps
1. Create a Category
All you have to do here is think of a name
and description
This is always the first step
Motivation
Automatic Notifications