Default Work Status not working...(?)

[former_member201314]

Hi guys,

Question 1:

is it possible to define a Default Work Status as Data Entry for 'Managers' only?

Mind you that we considered all relevant SAP Notes in regards to the Work Status Concept (in partiicular note 1862768. which points to the Default State - order 0 entry of the table above).

Additionally, we also maintained the Owner property entries of our Owner Dimension accordingly.

Apparently, this concept seems to be working out for one model, but not for another one of the same Environment:

Jobs being scheduled by a manager continue to fail due to a work status error on a non owner dimension.

Hence my Question 2:

Is it somehow necessary to manually apply the DEFAULT WORK STATE to a data slice initially?

That would be strange since it is supposed to be the DEFAULT state.

And: Does the DEFAULT STATE apply to the Cartesian Product of all Work Status relevant dimension members?????

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Claus

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[former_member201314]

ref "Defining Work States" under Work Status Setup - Administration - SAP Library

[former_member186338]

"is it possible to define a Default Work Status as Data Entry for 'Managers' only?" - what do you mean? What do you want to achieve?

"Is it somehow necessary to manually apply the DEFAULT WORK STATE to a data slice initially?" - no, nothing in the work status table is equivalent to DEFAULT WORK STATE.

Vadim

[former_member201314]

Hi Vadim,

thanks for you answer!

What we're trying to achieve ist that by default (DEFAULT WORK STATE) data manipulation, such as Uploads via Data Manager Packages should be possible for Managers only as long as these packes are executed or scheduled by a manager or a manager team that a certain user belongs to (in the sense of the owner entry of the Owner Dimension). Someone, not belonging to the manager team, should not be allowed uploading data whilst the data slice remains in the Default Work Status.

I am asking this question since I somwhere read that the Default Work State can be set up as e.g. 'All' or 'Locked'. I am just a bit confused about the 'e.g.' being mentioned in this article. Not sure of how to interprete that. Normally, it should mean that Manager or Owner are valid settings as well. However, as I said: Since it hasn't been mentioned explicitly and since in fact the 'Manager' setting that we set up doesn't seem to be working for us, I am not sure if 'Manager' or Owner' are valid choices for the Default Work State.

Cheers

>Claus

[former_member186338]

"Uploads via Data Manager Packages should be possible for Managers only" - to my mind it can be done by moving the Upload DM packages to the specific team folder (manager team). Work status is not the right tool for this...

Vadim