Automatic Workflow Customizing 

Use

You can use this function to carry out the activities necessary for executing the workflow, and to check the current status of workflow customizing.

Integration

Automatic Customizing does not cover all areas of Workflow Customizing. For example, it does not cover maintaining the organizational plan or customizing standard tasks and workflow templates.

Features

Automatic workflow Customizing is made up of several areas:

·        In the Runtime area, all activities are executed that are necessary for the execution of workflows.  

·        In the Definition time area, activities are executed that are necessary for a smooth modeling of workflows.

·        In the Maintain additional settings and services area you find activities that are needed to use specific special functions of the workflow.

·        The area Classify tasks as general has various sub-areas in which tasks of a function area can be set to general.

The activities checked automatically upon calling are displayed. The result of the check is shown with a graphical symbol. The overall result of the check of an area is also assessed.

If an activity is shown as having errors, execute automatic Customizing. To go directly to maintenance of the relevant activity, select .

Automatic Customizing

Automatic Customizing covers all the activities that concern the technical basic settings. The following standard settings are amongst those made:

·        Configuring a client-specific RFC destination

If there is not one already, a user (including password) is created for the logical destination WORKFLOW_LOCAL_<client>. Specify a user that was created in the current client with the user type background and that has the authorization SAP_ALL. If this function is executed automatically, the user WF-BATCH is created. If it does not exist already, this user is assigned your authorization profile. To facilitate error-free running of the workflow system, ensure that the user WF-BATCH is assigned the authorization SAP_ALL.

·        Scheduling all background jobs for the workflow system

·        Setting an active plan version

The active plan version is set to 01 if no active plan version has been maintained yet.

·        Classifying SAP tasks and SAP workflows as general tasks

The generic decision task (standard task for user decision) and other tasks that are used in the SAP workflows that are supplied are classified as “general tasks”. Some SAP workflows can also be classified as general.

·        Maintaining a workflow system administrator

If no workflow system administrator has been maintained yet, your user name (the current SY-UNAME) is entered as the system administrator.

After automatic customizing, carry out the following tests.

Start verification workflow

Select  Start verification workflow to start a workflow that tests some of the basic functions of the runtime system. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Test event linkages

Select  Event linkages to carry out a consistency check for existing event linkages.

Activities

You can access this function by choosing Tools ® Business Workflow ® Development ® Utilities ® Automatic Workflow Customizing.