Designing an Electronic Form to Start a Workflow (SAP Library

Designing an Electronic Form to Start a Workflow

Purpose

An employee who does not have SAPGUI installed on his or her PC would like to create a leave application. A workflow for this scenario already exists in the R/3 System. This workflow can now be started with an electronic form either offline via a mail client or online by calling the form application directly.

Process Flow

In the process described here, it is assumed that you are using Visual Basic. This also applies to the individual sections in this chapter. However, you can also design forms with MS Outlook, MS Word or MS Excel.

To start a workflow in the R/3 System using an electronic form, the following steps are necessary:

In the R/3 System:

Choose or define the relevant workflows

Create the organizational plan and assign agents

Extend the container definition

Define the bindings.

Defining a task to be started with a form

In Visual Basic:

Design the electronic form

Call the SAPforms Designer as an add-in or

Use the Submit control.

Designing forms with Visual Basic