Designing a Web Form to Start a Workflow or Task (SAP Library

Designing a Web Form to Start a Workflow or Task

Purpose

You want to be able to design a Web form to start a workflow or task in the SAP System.

Prerequisites

A namespace template and a package must be defined in Customizing. To do so, execute the activity Name range maintenance for task-related transactions in Customizing for SAP Business Workflow.

Process Flow

You define the workflow or task that is to be started by a Web form. Elements of the workflow or task container that are to be filled with values from the form must fulfill the following conditions:

Indicator as import element

Data type reference to an ABAP dictionary field

Multiline elements or elements that reference an object or structure are not supported.

Allow the system to generate a Web Transaction. If this transaction is executed, the import elements of the workflow or output container are filled and the workflow or the output is started.

A Web transaction is an SAP transaction that must be designed in a way that the screen layout can be called from an HTML page. For more information, see Generating Web Transactions.

Following this, you generate an ITS Service and four HMTL Templates from this transaction in the Object Navigator.

An ITS service essentially comprises an ITS service description, HTML templates (one for every screen in the SAP transaction) and language-support files. For more information, see Generating HTML Templates.