Business Workflow - Tutorials 

These tutorials introduce you to Business Workflow, its fundamental principles, its operation, and some of its functions.

Introduction

If you have no or only limited experience of Business Workflow, work through the following two tutorials first:

Tutorial: Workflow Modeling

Tutorial: Maintaining the Organizational Plan

We also recommend that you work through these tutorials as preparation for taking part in an SAP training course.

Events

If you are particularly interested in options for event creation, refer to the following tutorial:

Tutorial: Event Creation Upon Status Changes and Creation of "Mails"

Object types

Object type definitions are covered in a separate tutorial:

Tutorial: Workflow Programming

Programming knowledge is a prerequisite for this tutorial. It is therefore only suitable for advanced users.

Input conventions

At several points in the tutorials, you are requested to enter names, descriptions, or texts. These inputs are shown in bold letters. You can replace entries in pointed parentheses ( <example>) with your own texts.

You can choose your own IDs and descriptions. All of the abbreviations and IDs you use in this tutorial should start with the same character string, for example, your initials. This will help you to find your own definitions. The points at which an input is required are indicated by the character string ini.

Options and outputs from the SAP System are indicated in a different typeface.

Prerequisites

To work through this tutorial successfully,

You have to be familiar with the basic terms in Business Workflow.

You do not have to have any practical experience with Business Workflow.

You must be able to carry out all of the individual steps in the system directly.

Cross-client objects

You will be shown how to create cross-client objects. You will only be able to work through this tutorial on the system if you are authorized to create these objects.

Customizing

All of the Customizing settings must be defined for Business Workflow. To check these settings, choose Tools → Business Workflow → Development → Tools → Automatic Workflow Customizing.

For more information, see Automatic Workflow Customizing.

You do not need to check the settings if you are already using Business Workflow. You can use the automatic workflow Customizing function more than once, since existing settings are not overwritten.