SAP WORKFLOW A TUTORIAL

work flow..

Work flow sending data from one personnel to nother or from one transaction to another.
Workflow will be triggered mainly when a transaction is saved or some even occures in any transaction. When an even t occurs all the data will be bundled and sent to a
Business object.
From this business object we can manipulate the data, change according to our requirements and trigger a workflow.

A business object is basically object oriented repository in SAP.

Components of Business object
it contains business object type, interface type and components such as methods , attributes and events.,

when a workflow is triggered it starts from the transaction. when a user saves the transaction
the data goes to a business object send the data out as event and methods will genearte the data
and send it to work flow.

most of the sap transaction have business objects. but we can also do some customization to get new business objects and we can do with out business objects also by
using some sap function modules..


Scenario:

For the scenario we have to first look if there is any standard workflow is available, if available we can use it and if not we have to build one.

ex: Work flow for sap hr system.
when an employee is hired or rehired, a supervisor will be informed through an email.
Here in this scenario we are using a sap smart form as a email that has to be sent to the supervisor. we can send a simple mail but why we are using a smart form is ,
the mail that goes to a supervisor should ave a standard format. for this purpose we are using a smart form.

In sap hr for hiring we use the transaction PA40.

in the transaction PA40 give the personnel number and Select the HIRE action and then execute.