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Function documentation Automatic Workflow Customizing  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

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 This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

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

The workflow runtime required the RFC destination WORKFLOW_LOCAL-<Mdt.> based on the user WF-BATCH.

Therefore, first create a user WF-BATCH of type Background and assign it the authorization profile SAP_BC_BMT_WFM_SERV_USER according to SAP Note 1251255. If you then execute this customizing activity you only need to enter the password for WF-BATCH.

Comments:

                            a.      If the user WF-BATCH does not yet exist, then it is created automatically as part of this customizing activity. In this case the authorizations of your own user are transferred to it (SY-UNAME).

                            b.      To make it possible for the workflow system to work without errors, ensure that the user WF-BATCH has the basis profile SAP_BC_BMT_WFM_SERV_USER as well as the application authorizations.

●      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 This graphic is explained in the accompanying text 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 This graphic is explained in the accompanying text 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.

 

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