Definition of Workflows (SAP Library

Definition of Workflows

Purpose

You define workflows:

If you want to model business processes that include more than one step or more than one agent, and the workflow definitions of the workflow supplied by SAP are not sufficient.
If you want to extend or modify the workflow supplied by SAP.

The process description below assumes that you are creating a completely new workflow definition. Logically, it applies if you are processing or displaying an existing workflow definition.

If you only want to change the responsible agents and deadlines for a SAP workflow definition, then you can extend the workflow definition.

Prerequisites

Before defining a workflow, you must do the following:

Analyze the content of the process to be modeled
Check whether the objects involved and the methods they require are defined

The tasks you want to use in the steps of the workflow definition do not necessarily have to be defined beforehand. You can also define these tasks from the workflow definition.

Process Flow

Start the Workflow Builder. You can start with processing of the workflow definition and create the required container element of the workflow container in the container area. When saving for the first time you determine the abbreviation and the name.

For further information, refer to Calling the Workflow Builder.

You check, save and activate to conclude your work.

For further information, refer to Workflow Builder Functions.

If you require the triggering events, switch to processing of the relevant Multistep task. Here you define this including the binding definition.

For further information, refer to Definition of a Multistep Task.