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Function documentation Roles in Workflow  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

SAP Business Workflow can be used on the basis of roles and a number of roles are supplied for this purpose. The roles supplied cover the activity fields of the groups of people that work with SAP Business Workflow. There is role-specific documentation for each of these roles. This documentation contains only the sections that are relevant for the holders of the role in question.

Features

The workflow roles in this part of the documentation are based on the assumption of a particular way of working with SAP Business Workflow. It is assumed that IMG activities are already complete.

The workflow roles used are stylized. But they can also be used in your organization if you work in a different way.

The role-based procedure model

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The process consultant identifies the business processes in a organization, which are to be mapped with workflow technology. The workflow developer then implements these processes using the definition tools of SAP Business Workflow.

At runtime, the workflow is evaluated and managed from a technical perspective by the workflow system administrator. The process controller caters for this from a business perspective. The end user in the workflow context is the workflow agent, who processes the tasks assigned to them in their workflow inbox.

A role-specific procedure model is also described for each role, meaning that the overall role-based procedure model is derived from the overview model and the individual models.

The documentation also contains a general procedure model for working with SAP Business Workflow.

Relation to reference documentation

The workflow roles are intended for specific users of SAP Business Workflow. Specific users mostly only require some of the information available. The role documentation is an application-specific and hence also a limited view of the reference documentation.

The reference documentation is intended for those persons who require a complete and detailed overview of the functions available.

Activities

Read the documentation for your role. If you require further information on a topic, you can refer to it in the reference documentation.