Work Item Visualization in the Universal Worklist (UWL)

Use

There are various different working environments available to SAP users, for example, SAP GUI for Windows or SAP Enterprise Portal. You can use different UI technologies in the individual environment, for example classic Dynpros, people-centric UI, WebDynpro, iViews, and so on. For Business Workflow, this means that a work item may need to be processed with different applications: When using the classic SAP GUI for Windows, you might use a Dynpro-based transaction to process a work item from the Business Workplace. When using an application that is based on the SAP Enterprise Portal on the other hand, you might use a BSP-based application or an iView to process a work item from the Universal Worklist (UWL).

You can support these various different execution methods with work item visualization. Besides the usual way of executing a work item (direct execution of the object method, which is defined in the task), you can also define an alternative visualization type. The individual visualization types (WebDynpro, People Centric UI, iViews) have different parameters. Workflow visualization enables you to assign an alternative visualization type and the corresponding parameters to a workflow task or an object type. Using these parameters, the UWL creates the appropriate Web application call, for example, to start a BluePrint BSP application.

The system contains default settings for the visualization parameters of particular business objects. For example, Master Data Management (MDM) has default settings for the default methods for the objects Business Partner (BUS1006), MDM Business Partner (BUS1006300), Material (BUS1178001) and so on.

You specify the visualization parameters as a view cluster. For more information about working with view clusters, see: Creating a View Cluster.

Activities

Activities

You specify the visualization parameters for tasks, object types, or object methods in the view cluster. This gives you the option of defining the visualization parameters generically for an object method, or separately for a particular task. The visualization parameters for a task override the visualization parameters for a referenced object method.

Specifying Visualization Parameters for Tasks

  1. To specify the visualization parameters, choose Start of the navigation pathWorkflow Next navigation step Definition Tools Next navigation step Worklist Client Next navigation step Workflow Visualization MetadataEnd of the navigation path (transaction SWFVISU).

  2. In the Task Visualization view, specify the single-step task and choose the visualization type, for example BSP BluePrint.

  3. Select the task and in the Visualization Parameters view, define the parameters for this task.

    The choice of parameters varies depending on the visualization type that you select. The following table shows the possible parameters and appropriate parameters of the relevant launcher for the visualization types that are supported in the UWL.

    Visualization Type

    Parameter

    Launcher

    Launcher Parameter

    BSP BluePrint

    CRM_METHOD

    ObjectLinkLauncher

    ObjectMethod

    CRM object type; sub-type of the BOR object type.

    CRM_OTYPE

    ObjectType

    CRM Object Type: Subtype of the BOR object type. Sub-types such as these are sometimes required to divide up objects further, and to define them different BSP applications.

    CONFIRM

    SpecialConfirm

    Java WebDynpro

    APPLICATION

    SAPWebDynproLauncher

    WebDynproApplication

    PACKAGE

    WebDynproDeployableObject

    DYNPARAM

    DynamicParameter

    SYSTEM_ALIAS

    System

    ABAP WebDynpro

    APPLICATION

    SAPWebDynproABAPLauncher

    WebDynproApplication

    DYNPARAM

    DynamicParameter

    NAMESPACE

    WebDynproNamespace

    SYSTEM_ALIAS

    System

    iView

    ID

    IViewLauncher

    iview

    Portal Page

    ID

    IViewLauncher

    P age

    Object-Based Navigation

    OBJECT

    ObjectNavigationLauncher

    ObjectName

    OPERATION

    Operation

    VALUE

    ObjectValue

    SYSTEM_ALIAS

    System

Specifying Visualization Parameters for Objects

  1. Navigate to the Object Visualization view and choose New Entries.

  2. Select the object type, object method, and the visualization type.

    If you do not specify a method, the default method of the object type is used instead. The default method is defined in BOR by a relevant indicator. The default method for most object types is DISPLAY.

  3. Select the line and in the Visualization Parameters view, define the values of the parameters for this visualization type.

Example

A BSP Blue Print application of the People-Centric UI is called from the UWL for all work items that reference the object method BUS1006300.EDIT.

  1. Navigate to the Object Visualization view and choose New Entries.

  2. Define the following:

    • Object Type: BOR object type

    • Object Type: BUS1006300

    • Method Name: EDIT

    • Visualization Type: BSP Blue Print

  3. Select the line and in the Visualization Parameters view, define the values of the parameters for the visualization type BSP BluePrint, for example:

    • CRM_METHOD: DEFAULT

    • CRM_OTYPE: BUSINESS_PARTNER