Whether you're running on-premise SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, get the tools you need to automate your business processes with workflows! Build methods and tasks, define workflows and triggering events, and create notifications with SAP Business Workflow. Walk step by step through standard and custom workflow development using SAP S/4HANA's flexible workflows. Design and deploy cloud-ready workflows with SAP Business Application Studio and SAP Build Process Automation. This is the only workflow guide you need!

Highlights include:

1. SAP Business Workflow
2. SAP Build Process Automation
3. Flexible workflows
4. Tasks, methods, and steps
5. Business rules
6. Notifications
7. SAP Business Application Studio
8. SAP Master Data Governance
9. BRFplus
10. Migration
11. Administration
12. Integration

Develop cloud-based workflows with SAP Build Process Automation

Autorentext
Kiran Viswanathan is a technical architect and senior consultant with more than 21 years of extensive experience in sap user experience, mobility, and sap business technology platform. He has played the roles of user experience and extensibility solution consultant, and technical delivery manager for multiple client engagement across industries in their sap s/4hana implementations. He leads and manages the SAP UX, mobility, and SAP BTP practice at the IBM India global delivery center. In addition, he is an architect and the realization lead in IBM's strategic Evolution Program for developing intelligent workflows for several industry use cases. He can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiran-viswanathan/

Inhalt
... Preface ... 19

... Target Audience ... 19

... Objective of This Book ... 20

... How to Read This Book ... 21

1 ... Getting Started ... 23

1.1 ... Workflows in SAP S/4HANA ... 23

1.2 ... Workflows in SAP Business Technology Platform ... 32

1.3 ... Workflow Development Tools ... 34

1.4 ... Identity and Access Management ... 45

1.5 ... Summary ... 48

Part I ... SAP Business Workflow for SAP S/4HANA ... 49

2 ... Introduction to Classical Workflows ... 51

2.1 ... Evolution of Classical Workflows ... 51

2.2 ... Standard Workflows ... 53

2.3 ... Configuring the SAP Business Workflow System ... 56

2.4 ... Activating and Deactivating Standard Workflows ... 70

2.5 ... Configuring Agents for Standard Workflows ... 72

2.6 ... When to Develop a Custom Workflow ... 73

2.7 ... Summary ... 75

3 ... Building Methods and Tasks ... 77

3.1 ... Business Object Repository Approach ... 78

3.2 ... ABAP Class Approach ... 116

3.3 ... Task Definition ... 130

3.4 ... Summary ... 137

4 ... Defining Workflows and Adding Steps ... 139

4.1 ... Workflow Builder ... 139

4.2 ... Common Workflow Steps ... 144

4.3 ... Adding Tasks ... 154

4.4 ... Containers and Bindings ... 160

4.5 ... Multiline Elements and Dynamic Parallel Processing ... 167

4.6 ... Deadline Definition ... 169

4.7 ... Summary ... 176

5 ... Defining and Triggering Events ... 177

5.1 ... Event Triggering Techniques ... 178

5.2 ... Event Creators, Receivers, and Event Linkage ... 198

5.3 ... Start Conditions in Workflows ... 203

5.4 ... Terminating Events and Instance Linkage ... 207

5.5 ... Check Function Module and Receiver Function Module for Events ... 210

5.6 ... Summary ... 212

6 ... Agent Determination ... 213

6.1 ... Different Types of Agents in Workflow ... 214

6.2 ... Agent Determination Rules ... 220

6.3 ... Possible Agents in Tasks and Default Rules ... 234

6.4 ... Organizational Structure Definition and Linking to Workflow Agents ... 237

6.5 ... Summary ... 239

7 ... Email Notifications and Other Runtime Jobs ... 241

7.1 ... Prerequisites for Setting Up Email Notifications in Workflow ... 241

7.2 ... Classical Work Item Email Notifications via Program RSWUWFML2 ... 244

7.3 ... Extended Notification Configuration with Program SWNCONFIG ... 252

7.4 ... Adding Inbox and Work Item URL Links to Workflow Work Item Notifications ... 262

7.5 ... Additional Workflow Runtime Jobs ... 264

7.6 ... Summary ... 265

8 ... Workflow Administration, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting ... 267

8.1 ... Workflow Log ... 268

8.2 ... Workflow Administration ... 274

8.3 ... Workflow Error Diagnosis and Resolution ... 279

8.4 ... Workflow Inbox and Features ... 283

8.5 ... Substitution and Automatic Forwarding ... 289

8.6 ... Display Dynamic Labels for Tasks to Display in Business Workplace ... 299

8.7 ... Event Trace and Event Queue Administration ... 301

8.8 ... Process Incoming Documents with ArchiveLink ... 305

8.9 ... Summary ... 310

9 ... Application Link Enabling and Reporting ... 313

9.1 ... Error Handling during IDoc Processing ... 314

9.2 ... Active Monitoring ... 327

9.3 ... Common Workflow Data Tables ... 329

9.4 ... Common Workflow Application Programming Interfaces ... 330

9.5 ... Workflow Reporting ... 331

9.6 ... Implementing Program Exits to Capture Data from Workflow Steps ... 335

9.7 ... Summary ... 339

10 ... BRFplus ... 341

10.1 ... Introduction to BRFplus ... 341

10.2 ... Integrating BRFplus Applications in SAP Business Workflow ... 347

10.3 ... Summary ... 356

11 ... Integrating Workflows with User Interface Applications and External Applications ... 357

11.1 ... My Inbox App Overview ... 357

11.2 ... Workflow Task Integration with User Interface Applications ... 359

11.3 ... Email Templates in SAP S/4HANA ... 373

11.4 ... Integrating External Applications with SAP Business Workflow ... 373

11.5 ... Summary ... 374

12 ... Migrating SAP ERP Workflows to SAP S/4HANA ... 375

12.1 ... Migration Options from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA ... 376

12.2 ... Conversion Projects (Brownfield) ... 378

12.3 ... New Implementation Projects (Greenfield) and Selective Data Transition ... 384

12.4 ... Summary ... 389

13 ... Workflow in SAP Master Data Governance ... 391

13.1 ... Introduction to SAP Master Data Governance ... 392

13.2 ... Business Partner Workflows ... 419

13.3 ... Finance Workflows ... 431

13.4 ... Material Workflows ... 436

13.5 ... Summary ... 437

Part II ... Flexible Workflow in SAP S/4HANA ... 439

14 ... Introduction to Flexible Workflow ... 441

14.1 ... Authorizations and SAP Fiori Applications Required for Development ... 442

14.2 ... Flexible Workflow Scenarios ... 443

14.3 ... Migrating to Flexible Workflows ... 446

14.4 ... Setting Up a Standard Flexible Workflow Scenario ... 447

14.5 ... Extending the Standard Flexible Scenario ... 460

14.6 ... Summary ... 461

15 ... Custom Scenario Development ... 463

15.1 ... Workflow Class Development ... 463

15.2 ... Business Objects ... 470

15.3 ... Scenario Development ... 473

15.4 ... Create a Workflow Template Using the Manage Workflows App ... 490

15.5 ... Initiating the Custom Flexible Workflow ... 497

15.6 ... My Inbox Integration ... 498

15.7 ... Troubleshooting ... 501

15.8 ... Summary ... 504

16 ... SAP Fiori Applications for Flexible Workflow ... 505

16.1 ... Adaptation Transport Organizer Setup ... 505

16.2 ... Maintain Email Templates App ... 507

16.3 ...…