Workflow Wizards for Circulars

Use

This folder contains Workflow Wizards which define workflows for the forwarding of any documents (circulars).

This enables you to ensure that the circular reaches all recipients and does not remain for too long with the individual recipients.

Features

All workflow definitions for circulars have the following properties in common:

• The object type of the circular is determined, for example:

  • Office document (object type SOFM)

  • Parked document (object type FIPP)

  • Notification of absence (object type FORMABSENC)

  • Material (Object type BUS2001)

• The processing task (and therefore the method) is determined, with which the circular is displayed or processed.

The workflow definitions for circulars can be differentiated as follows:

• Static or dynamic

  With the static variant, all recipients of the circular are determined in the workflow definition. This specification then applies to all workflows which refer to this definition.

  With the dynamic variant, the recipients of the circular are not specified individually for the respective current workflow until runtime.

• Parallel or sequential

  With the parallel variant, all recipients can access the circular at the same time.

  With the sequential variant, the circular is presented to the recipients for display purposes in sequence. Only when one recipient has finished, does the next recipient get the opportunity to access the circular. With the help of the Workflow Wizard, you can define deadline monitoring so that the circular is forwarded after a specific period of time automatically or the workflow initiator is notified.

The following combinations result: