SAP Workflow - Definition and Use of Customer-Specific Workflows

Course Content

• Introduction
     -Describe the workflow architecture
     -Name the steps involved in a workflow project
     -Describe the general procedure for design and implementation
     -List the different options for using organizational units in a workflow
     -Create an organizational unit with positions
     -Describe the different ways of assigning possible agents to units in the organizational model
• Workflow Definition in the Workflow Builder
     -Create a workflow template with a workflow definition
     -List the possible step types in a workflow
     -Use the Workflow Builder
• Business Objects and Business Object Repository (BOR)
     -Describe the use of the Business Object Repository
     -Explain the difference between an object and an object type
     -Describe the use of object types in workflow
     -Create a subtype for a standard object type in the system
     -Delegate the subtype, thus making it available in the standard system
     -Extend the subtype by adding attributes, methods, and events
• Task Structure and Use in Workflows
     -Define a task
     -Name the components of a task that you always have to maintain
     -Understand the different ways in which synchronous and asynchronous methods are processed
     -Integrate a standard task into a workflow step
     -Create and maintain task groups
     -Use the Business Workflow Explorer as an administration tool
• Container – Interfaces in the Workflow
     -Name the various containers of the Workflow Engine.
     -Describe the possible binding directions between the containers
     -Explain the example binding in the notification of absence workflow.
     -Create a workflow container element
     -Create a task container element
     -Understand and check container bindings
     -Create container bindings when required
• Determination of Recipients of Work Items
     -Name the different ways of restricting possible agents
     -Describe the rule types that can be defined
     -Explain example for the application of rules
     -Define a rule with responsibilities
     -Use this rule in a workflow
     -Ensure that a workflow step never has the status "No agent found".
     -Describe how the system determines the recipients of a work item.
     -Explain what happens if the system cannot find an intersection between possible and responsible agents
• Ad Hoc Processing Options
     -Determine agents dynamically at runtime
     -Define tasks for a business process step dynamically at runtime
     -Use the ad hoc anchor step type to extend the workflow definition by adding an additional workflow
• Monitoring Steps in Business Processes
     -Define and test a simple deadline for a workflow step
     -Insert a modeled deadline into a workflow definition
• Events and Workflow
     -Explain the logic behind how events generated by applications and find the workflows or tasks that use them
     -Name the steps that you have to carry out in order to work with events
     -Define an event as a triggering event for a workflow
     -Activate the event linkage
     -Trigger the event on a test basis in the system, to check whether the workflow starts and runs correctly
     -Name the options for triggering events in the different applications
     -Use different methods to trigger events
     -Define additional start conditions for workflows
     -Explain the event queue
     -Use transaction SWU0 to check the event linkage
     -Use the transaction SWUE to test the triggering of events in the system without using the application
     -Use the transactions SWELS and SWEL to activate and display the event log
     -Develop a procedure for testing workflows
• Special Step Types and Methods of Processing
     -Use the step types Fork and Document from Template
     -Process multiline attributes of an object type
     -Use the step types loop and form
     -Enter conditions affecting the start and end of a work item in the
• Workflow Builder
     -Using the step type BLOCK
     -Options for assessing the SWITCH construct
• Wizards
     -Use wizards to define complete workflows for approval and circulation procedures
     -Create a workflow that calls the Customizing transaction or tables in a prescribed order
     -Use wizards that model missed deadlines
     -Call reports
     -Dynamically assign agents
     -Generate object references
• Tutorial
     -Define a workflow with all its components
     -Trigger a workflow using events
     -Test a workflow process
• Further Topics (Optional)
     -Explain technical settings
     -Explore transaction codes, menu paths, and the data sheet

Notes

• This course is not an introductory course.
• Customers, who are using an SAP System which is on a support level higher or lower than ERP 6.0 EHP 7 can successfully participate this course.

Course based on software release

• SAP ERP Central Component 6.0, EHP 8