
Maintenance of a Web Activity
Purpose
You use this step type to send an XML document from the workflow to another system. The recipient can process the XML document according to their requirements. This XML document can start a workflow in another system for example.
If the receiver is also a SAP System, a
service is available, which can be used to start a Business Workflow automatically.In the workflow definition such a step type is represented with the symbol
.
Prerequisites
The SAP System must be appropriately configured for a workflow containing this step type to be executed. For more information, see
Defining the Web Server.Process Flow
The maintenance is spread across several tab pages. You can process properties on them, such as:
The order of the tab pages defines the recommended sequence of processing. To create an executable Web activity, you only have to process the tab page
Call .Result
The system inserts a step of the type Web activity into the workflow definition. To ensure the consistency of the workflow definition, all active outcomes are inserted with the actual step. The system adds a branch to the workflow definition for each outcome. To ensure the consistency of the block structure, all branches created are brought together before the next step of the workflow definition.
The tab page
Change data displays when the step was last changed, and by whom .