Creating a Personal Substitute

This action creates a personal substitute for a Workflow item. To do this, you must execute a POST request on the Substitution collection.

To create a personal substitute:

1. On the SAP Gateway system, go to transaction SPRO, open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to  SAP NetWeaver  SAP Gateway  OData Channel  Administration  General Settings  Activate and Maintain Services .

2. Select the Workflow service.

3. Choose Call Browser.

4. Execute a POST request on the SubstitutionCollection.

5. Fill in a request body, as shown in the example below:

            <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 
        <atom:id />
        <atom:author /> 
         <atom:content type="application/xml">
                <m:properties xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
                        <d:user><user_name></d:user> 
                        <d:activated></d:activated> 
                        <d:profile><profile name></d:profile> 
                        <d:full_name></d:full_name> 
                        <d:begin_date m:Type="Edm.DateTime">2011-11-15T00:00:00</d:begin_date> 
                        <d:end_date m:Type="Edm.DateTime">9999-12-31T00:00:00</d:end_date> 
                </m:properties>
                </atom:content>
        <atom:title>Substitution</atom:title> 
        <atom:updated></atom:updated> 
  </atom:entry>
         

• The field user is mandatory.

• To obtain the profile name to use for this action, follow the steps described in the Substitution Profiles Collection section. The use of a profile is optional.

• If there is no begin date, the default value used is the current date.

• If there is no end date, the default value used is 9999-12-31.