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SAP Workflow EVENTS

Event

An occurrence of a change of state in an object, which is published throughout the system.

An event is an object type component. The list of possible events is defined with the relevant object type in the Business Object Builder. This list can be extended according to customer requirements using

the delegation concept. The actual creation of the events added must be catered for . Events can start, terminate or continue tasks and workflow s. Examples of events are:

Invoice entered

Purchase order released

Triggering Event

Event whose occurrence starts a task or a w orkflow.The event must be entered as a triggering event for the task or work flow that is to be s tarted. The event linkage must be

activated. A task or workflow can have several triggering events. Information from the event creation context can be passed in the binding from the event container to the task

container or workflow container. The event must be defined as an object type component in the Business Object Builder.

Use of the event

You use an event in a workf low under the follow ing circumstances

In a task definition or in the version-independent basic data of a w orkflow as a triggering event.

In task definiton as a terminating event.(The task is terminated w hen ever a event is occured)

In version dependent basic dataof the w orkflow .

In a w orkflow defintion for steps of types Event Cr eatorand Wait for e vent.

A event is created from any application program. Multiple receivers are poss ible for a event. When ever you w ant to use a event in your w orkflow then that particular event must be defined in the

appropriate Business Object (Object Type) or in the Business Class (ABAP classes that are supported by w orkflow s).

Start Workflow by Triggering a event

You can start a workflow w hen a event is triggered byspecifying the business object and its associated event in the basic data of the workf low .

In the Basic data of the w orkflow w e can even specif y the name of the class and its related event as the triggering event.

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