NW BPM 7.3 + Web Dynpro for ABAP + standard ECC txs

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm not experienced in Web Dynpro for ABAP, but a question came in mind when I first heard about NW BPM 7.3 supporting tasks UI built on WDA: does this mean I can (re)use a standard tx GUI (like Purchase Order creation) from ECC as a task UI? Can I map both input as well as output of this task UI?

Use case is: I need to implement a process where one human task is to create a PO. How I can accomplish that without implementing my own UI (since it is already available in ECC)?

A workaround I sketched (in case I cannot reuse an ECC standard tx GUI) is:

1) Model the human task in the business process and bind it to a Web Dynpro for Java UI

2) Embbed a transaction iView in the Web Dynpro for Java UI (I saw somewhere in this forum that this is possible and that I can map the input of the iView -- not the output)

3) Use an intermediate message event right after the human task, therefore orchestrating the ECC "process" with the BPM process

Would that work? Did someone implement similar use cases?

Best regards,

Ricardo Giacomin

[former_member182294 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You cannot use standard GUI as UI task in BPM. You can implement the solution in the following way:

You can implement an user exit in PO so that it triggers the BPM start process (Web Service) for further steps. In BPM, the process initiation task is not part of the overall process and it should be an external one. So you can create transaction iView through which PO can be created and that triggers the BPM process for further processing.

Thanks

Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhilash,

Thank you very much for your answer. The workaround you suggested is exactly what I meant, with a small difference that I need the PO creation not as a process trigger, but as a process inner task.

Best regards,

Ricardo Giacomin

[reinhard_weidner2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ricardo,

you can only use WebDynpro ABAP as BPM-Activity/Task not Dynpro ABAP, so standard PO will not work.

Calling Dynpros as Webgui inside a WebDynpro as workarournd is something I tried, but no success yet

Also, WebDynpro ABAP integration into BPM is quite new, I could not manage to give control back to BPM from WD-A yet, still waiting for an answer from SAP now.

So I suspect the thing is so brandnew so even the internals don't really know how to handle it ...

Could be the reason why no hype for BPM 7.30 is generated on SDN yet!

Out from Rampup for about 2 months now and still no word in SDN...

By the way, if you install it from scratch, you have to upgrade immediatly to SP03, otherwise you won't be able to deploy a BPM process.

best regards,

Reinhard

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

Did you come to know how to integarte WDA with BPM? If so can u pelase help me on this?

Regards,

Kris