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SAP Workflow EVENTS

Added by Prabhakar Dharmala, last edited by sachin sharma on Feb 11, 2009
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Event
An occurrence of a change of state in an object, w hich is published throughout the system.
An event is an object type component. The list of possible events is defined w ith 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 w orkflow s. Examples of events are:
Invoice entered
Purchase order released
Triggering Event
Event w hose occurrence starts a task or a w orkflow . The event m ust be entered as a triggering event for the task or w orkflow that is to be started. The event linkage m ust be
activated. A task or w orkflow can have several triggering events. Inform ation from the event creation context can be passed in the binding from the event container to the task
container or w orkflow container. The event m ust be defined as an object type com ponent in the Business Object Builder.
Use of the event
You use an event in a w orkflow 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 term inating event.(The task is terminated w hen ever a event is occured)
In version dependent basic data of the w orkflow .
In a w orkflow defintion for steps of types Event Creator and Wait for event.
A event is created from any application program. Multiple receivers are possible 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 w orkflow w hen a event is triggered by specifying the business object and its associated event in the basic data of the w orkflow .
In the Basic data of the w orkflow w e can even specify the name of the class and its related event as the triggering event.

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