Personal Worklist

Definition

The Personal Worklist is a system-generated worklist. This worklist contains details specific to a user role.

Each worklist contains business objects specific to a department. For example, you can call a worklist with incomplete sales orders or a worklist with sales orders that are blocked for delivery.
The worklist also contains specific functions. You can use these functions to process respective business objects.
Note

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) and other documents, the Personal Worklist is also referred to as follows:
- POWL (Personal Object Worklist)
- POWER List (Personal Object Work Entity Repository List)

Use

Process Business Objects

Each worklist of a business object provides special functions. You can use a single worklist and complete all the business operations related to this work item. For example, you can change incomplete sales document to update missing pricing data.

Format List

You can represent data from a worklist in several ways, based on the special functions provided by the worklist. You have the option of saving the data in a worklist as an MS Excel file. You can thus use the format option available in MS Excel to sort or filter the data in a worklist.

Function	Description
Export to Excel	You use this function to export a worklist to Microsoft Excel. The column headers and data are exported.
Create Print Version	You use this function to print a worklist.

Structure

The worklist has a tabular structure. The contents of the table are as follows:

The rows contain records for a business object. You can select these records for further processing.
The columns contain the data for a business object. You can display the data to suit your requirements.

Integration

Query

A query is defined by a query type. Each query defines the content of a worklist. For more information, see Defining a New Query. You can use the following specifications to customize the selected business data to meet your current task requirements:

Personalize a query layout using the Personalization option. For more information, see Personalization.
Use the selection criteria options Define a New Query or Change a Query over the predefined criteria. The business application provides the predefined criteria. For more information, see Defining a New Query and Changing a Query.

Technical Settings

For technical information, see Developer's Guide.