Defining Responsibilities

Use

Specifying responsibilities is always optional. You can specify them as follows:

  • Using a user

    This is a static assignment to an SAP System user.

  • Using an organizational object ( organizational unit, job, position, work center)

    This is a static assignment to the organizational plan of your enterprise.

  • Using a role

    This is a static assignment for users who have the roles entered.

  • Using a rule

    This is a dynamic assignment to the organizational plan of your enterprise.

  • Using an expression

    This is a dynamic assignment in which an organizational object is established from the workflow container.

Procedure

  1. Choose a responsibility type.

  2. Enter the ID or the name of the responsibility.

Specifying a responsibility using a rule

You must define the binding from the task container or workflow container to the rule container according to the environment of the responsibility definition. Two functions are displayed if you choose rule as type.

Choose Binding. Assign parameters from the workflow container or task container to the rule parameter elements required for the rule resolution. Depending on the rule, it may not be necessary for all the rule parameter with elements to be linked with parameters from the task container or workflow container. The container element _RULE_RESULT of the rule container refers to the object type AAGENTS and contains the result of the rule resolution. You can define a binding for a suitable container element of the workflow container to further use the result in other steps of your workflow.

If you choose Define binding automatically, the system proposes a binding definition. You can edit and confirm this proposal or reject it. For more information, see Rule-Based Proposal for Binding Definitions.

Specifying a responsibility using an expression

The responsibility cannot or is not to be determined until runtime using an element from the workflow container. Use the F4 input help to specify the expression and keep in mind the color coding of the container elements.

You use the field WFSYST-AGENT as data type reference if you want to extend the container.

Result

If you do not enter any responsibility, a recipient is established by the system in accordance with the responsibility rules.