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CATS Workflow

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Our original CATS workflow designers have recently left and we are now having issues where workflows are hanging, even though they have been approved.

The workflow is putting item into inbox and users go through portal to view and approve the time sheet per pernr field. The workflow seems to hang even though I can see on CATSDB where an approval was done. The workflow just seems to stall instead of going down the approval path. It eventually goes through a deadline monitoring step which creates a delinquent approval event, that the workflow will end 2 days later. We are on ERP2005. An ABAP is running that creates these CATS workflows every 15 seconds. Probably around 200-250 getting created and program runs about an hour.

Any idea how to trouble shoot? Could it be a buffering issue, or lock entries, etc..

Is too much activity happening with CATSDB? One could actually be bring up same work items at the same time as another person, but either one that approves it seem should go down the work item approval path of the workflow. Not all workflows stall. Some work correctly as they should. We just don't have a pattern of the problem to concentrate on.

Has anyone experienced this or may have some idea as to what to monitor on the next run of the program?

Thanks.

Dale

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Former Member
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Hi Dale,

I have the similar requirement of sending the entries entered for two levels of approval. I has to happen in portal as ur case.

Is it posible? If so plz tell me how to do it....

Thanks,

Sivagami.R

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The problem seemed to be related to the way users were exiting the portal screen.

former_member184067
Active Contributor
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hi Dale,

could you please tell me the workflow no that you have problem so i can help trace the problem from my system.

regards

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Eddhie,

Not sure exactly sure what you are asking for. We developed our own workflow definition and delegated the CATS business object to our own as well.

Thanks.