terminating event (SAP Library

terminating event

SAP Business Workflow (BC-BMT-WFM)

Event whose occurrence terminates a task.

If the indicator Confirm end of processing is set for the task, the end of processing must be confirmed by a recipient after the event has occurred as well.

The event is entered as a terminating event in the task definition. A task can have several terminating events.

Tasks that refer to an asynchronous method must have at least one terminating event. Tasks that refer to a synchronous method can have terminating events.

Tasks with terminating events are terminated as follows:

If the terminating event occurs

If a recipient executes the work item and (if applicable) sets it to 'Done' (only for tasks that use a synchronous object type method)