Implementing Your Own Process Type

Purpose

If you:

• write your own application log to be displayed in the Process tab strip for the Logs for a Process in Process Chain Maintenance, or:
• have implemented your own monitor, or
• have implemented a Customizing interface that goes beyond the parameters of a program, or
• want to access preceding chain processes in your program, or
• want to take errors when executing your program in modeling into consideration or are aware of multiple end states (see process type Decisions)

we recommend implementing your own process type.

Prerequisites

Good working knowledge of the ABAP object-orientated language enhancement, see ABAP Objects.

Process Flow

1. In the SAP menu, choose Tools → ABAP Workbench → Development → Class Builder. Define a class here and implement the interfaces that you need.

   The following IF_RSPC_* interfaces are available:

   Interface IF_RSPC_*	Description	Method is called in ...	Implementation is ....
   EXECUTE	Executes the process. This interface is the main interface used to implement your own process type and is the only process chain maintenance interface that is obligatory. Note that a non-initial instance and a status must be returned in the EXECUTE method. Otherwise the process terminates with an error during execution.	Runtime	Obligatory
   GET_INFO	Passes information about a process to the successor.	Maintenance and runtime	Optional
   GET_LOG	Returns the log for a variant and an instance to the process chain maintenance, either as a title and text or as a list of messages	Runtime and log view	Optional
   MAINTAIN	Enables process variants to be created and maintained in the process chain maintenance. It also determines the header information for a variant so that it can be displayed in the process chain maintenance.	Maintenance	Alternative or in addition to interface IF_RSPC_GET_VARIANT
   GET_VARIANT	Provides input help (F4) for variants. You need to implement this interface and/or interface IF_RSPC_MAINTAIN, in order to be able to add process variants to a chain.	Maintenance	Alternative or in addition to interface IF_RSPC_MAINTAIN
   GET_DEFAULT_CHAIN	Indicates the default chain for a process. For each variant to be scheduled, you can propose which additional processes it would make sense to schedule before or after the process.	Maintenance	Optional
   CHECK	Consistency check at scheduling time for the process/chain You can carry out a check to determine: the consistency of a process dependencies with regard to other processes in the same chain and dependencies with regard to other processes in other chains authorizations of current user to execute process	Maintenance	Optional
   GET_STATUS	We recommend implementing this interface for distributed processes. With distributed processes, such as loading processes, a number of different work processes are involved in the relevant tasks. The interface allows you to request the status of the instance in the process chain maintenance(for distributed processes when follow-on events are not sent). This makes it possible to recognize terminations in distributed tasks as well.	Runtime and log view	Optional
   CALL_MONITOR	Calls up the process monitor from the log view in the process chain maintenance.	Log view	Optional
   TRANSPORT	Returns TLOGO entry.	Maintenance	Optional
   CONTEXTMENU	Adds functions to the context menu for a process in the process chain maintenance.	Maintenance	Optional
   VARIABLES	Declares whether the process can process runtime variables	Runtime	Optional
   SIMULATION	Passes on and displays the simulation result	Runtime	Optional
   MULTI_EVENT	Declares the possible end states of the process	Maintenance and runtime	Optional

    

2. Enter the process type under Settings → Maintain Process Types (RSPROCESSTYPES view) in the process chain maintenance transaction.

   To do this, choose Edit → New Entries, enter a technical name, short and long description for the process type, enter the name of your class and choose ABAP-OO Class as the Object Type. Make the other settings for your process type and save the entry.

   See also:

   Maintenance of Process Types

3. If using service class CL_RSPC_APPL_LOG, enter your process type as a sub-object to log object BW_PROCESS.

Result

Your process is available in process chain maintenance for the process category you assigned.