Maintenance of Event Creators (SAP Library - WebFlow Engine (BC-BMT-WFM))

Maintenance of Event Creators

Use

Use an event creator if you want to publish an event from a workflow. This event can be used as follows:

To start other workflows or tasks.

For this, the event must be entered as a triggering event for the relevant workflow or task.

As a terminating event of a task.

For internal communication and synchronization.

To react to an event in a workflow, you use a wait step.

In the workflow definition an event creator is represented with the symbol This graphic is explained in the accompanying text .

Features

At runtime the system creates an event in accordance with your specifications. The system caters automatically for the workflow system elements in the event container as well.

If the event container contains other, non-standard elements, you must define a binding from the workflow container to the event container.

Activities

On the tab page Control you enter a name for the step and for the outcome. The other fields are as follows:

Container element

This container element of the workflow container must contain an object reference. The referenced object is the object to which the event refers.

If the event is created at runtime, the system writes this object reference into the container element _Evt_Object in the event container.

BOR Object type or Class

In the left screen area, the system displays whether the type of object referred to in the container element is a BOR object type or an ABAP class. The right screen area contains the name of the object type or class.

Event

This event is created by the system at execution time of the workflow. The event must be defined for the object type or class.

Select This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to see whether all the receivers you expected were started. For more information, see Event Simulation.