Maintaining Task Texts 

Prerequisites

You enter the following information on the tab page Description:

You can describe the task or make notes and recommendations for processing. The task description is displayed in the work item display.

These texts are sent as notification to the message recipients for completion or missed deadlines.

Procedure

  1. Switch to the tab page Description.
  2. Select the text type that you want to create or change.
  3. Select .

If you are looking at a task in display mode, whose original system is not the current system, you can change the existing texts. This creates an extension of the task definition.
  1. Compose your text.

To add text variables to your text, choose Include ® Expression. You can add as many text variables to the text as you want. For further information, refer to Text Variables and Replacement and Text Processing with the SAPscript Editor.

You want to display the number of the accounting document currently being processed in the task description for a standard task. The document number is defined under the name DocumentNo as a key field for the object type BUS2068 ( accounting document).

The reference to the processed object (of type BUS2068 in this example) is located in the task container under the element _WI_Object_ID . To reference the document number in the text, write &BUS2068.DocumentNo& at the appropriate point in the text.