MDM Workflow

[Former Member]

Hi,

Two questions for the MDM Workflow guru's...

(1) It seems that some of the repositories I have do have the workflow table while others don't. ( For example - I installed a copy of the GDS 1.0 repository and don't see a table called workflow in there.. ) What controls this behaviour ?

(2) I seems to have issues with the MS Visio plug-in. When I double-click my workflow in the Client/Data Manager, I get into Visio and see an empty page with the default chapes... but none of the shapes have any properties associated with them. Also, when I hit save.. my workflow is not really saved : when I doble click again in the Data Manager, I get a new blanc workflow.

Any ideas ?

Thx,

Dirk

[Former Member]

I have answer for second question: If you are working on a platform where database and server are present on different machine and you are working remotely from other terminal, please note that MS Visio must be running on the server. If it is not, then you will face errors while using the application.

Possible ways:

a. Check MS Visio is running on the server

b. Check version on your desktop and that on the server is same. (In case that is the case)

c. Check your Windows profile - if it is currupt, it do give error while using the application.

d. Standard delivery of repository from SAP (Material, vendor etc.) do not carry Workflow table. So if you are copying from that repository, it will not contain this table.

[former_member192347]

Here is the configuration that works.

I have MDM SP3 running on Windows XP Server with MS SQL Server database.

My laptop has MDM Data Manager and Visio 2003. I design workflow on my laptop and save it on the MDM Server.

Users have MDM Data Manager on their laptops and they can access their records and perform their task.

So, MDM Server DO NOT need MS Visio running on the server machine. MS Visio is required only for Workflow design purpose.

Abhay

[Former Member]

I managed to resolve my issues.

It seems that re-installing Visio did not help, but I used the option embedded into Office to restore the "registry" settings to the default. This resolved my problem. Unfortunately, this also ment I lost my outlook profile... but that could be resolved easily:-)

And yes, Visio is only required on the developpers' PC.

For the missing workflow table... it can be simply added trough the console.

Regards,

Dirk

[Former Member]

1) maybe you have to add the workflow table in the console. the sap standard repositories all come without workflow table, you have to add it manually.

2) this is new to me. the normal procedure is the double-click, then you see the visio window with just the mdm tools, build your workflow and save. do you have the right version? visio 2003?

[Former Member]

Regarding the second point : I have Visio Professional 2003 SP1 (11.4301.6360)

Re-installing visio and the MDM WF Client did not solve this...

Regards,

Dirk

[Former Member]

Hi,

1) If your repository was created prior to the existance of MDM Workflow and you "Updated" the repository in your newer MDM Version, then you will not be able to see Workflow table. Example: Repository A was created in SP1. Now you are mounting/unarchiving repository A in MDM SP3. In this case, Workflow table is not visible.

2) Try to unistall your Workflow and install again. Also, please chack whether you have any previous version of VIsio already installed. (I hope you know that MDM requires Visio 2003 Professional). In such case, please uninstall any other versions of Visio prior to installing 3003 Professional.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Rajani

[Former Member]

by the way, I only have Visio 2003 Standard (SP2), and everything works fine. So "Professional" is not necessary, at least for the basic functionality.