Hi Expert,

Can any one provide me steps by step guide to use custom UI for SAP BPM human activity.

Also if possible share how to use SAP UI5 in BPM human activity.

I am currently using 7.3 EP1 SP08.

Regards,

Sunil Patil

Hi,

i tried to implement William Li's workshop NetWeaver BPM for System-to-System Message Orchestration (Including Migration of ccBPM to NW BPM)

The development was ok so far and did not show any error, neverthelesss during "build" (of the project) i got the error:

Cannot create DCProxy for DC that is either synchronized or local only: PI-SCP-BUILDT:sap.com/bie/sca/scdl/contributors/xi

The NWDS version is SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio 7.3 SP04 PAT0003

Thanks for your help,

Udo

Hello experts,

We are unable to start any new BPM processes, complete BPM engine status in Red.

Suddenly some of the BPM process definition showing in RED, that count reached to maximum Threshold.

We had tried restarting the server to clean up the count, but still we are facing the same issue.

Can you please help me how to analyze the process definition errors which are showing in ‘Process Instance Memory Threshold’

Attached file for more details.

Exception:

1. com.sap.glx.adapter.api.AdapterException: Process start failed due to TransitionException!

   Caused by: com.sap.glx.core.kernel.api.TransitionException: An exception occurred while executing the script "_SimpleProcess:START_EVENT_BPMN_Start(
         com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Request request,
         com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Event_0_Start_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499 event){
     initiator=request:initiator;
     kicker=request:kicker;
     instance=new com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Instance_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(initiator, null, kicker, false);
     bridge=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.Synchronizer:Bridge_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, null, null, null, null);
     bridge:setRequest(request);
     token=new com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Token_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, 0, null, null, null);
     delete event;
     exit=new com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Exit();
     exit:onActivation("E0E1B8C6C5CC519033E611DECB110050569E73BC", instance, token);
     delete exit;
     controller=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ExceptionAdapter:ExceptionController();
     controller:setContext(token);
     delete controller;
     scope=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.TypeRegistry:Scope_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance);
     role_1=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ContainerAdapter:View_0_Administrators_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, scope, -1, false, false, null);
     instance:setContainerObject("Administrators", role_1);
     scope=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.TypeRegistry:Scope_2_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance);
     role_2=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ContainerAdapter:View_1_SimpleProcess_ExcludedOwners_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, scope, -1, false, false, null);
     scope=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.TypeRegistry:Scope_3_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance);
     view_3=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ContainerAdapter:View_2_TextVariables_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, scope, -1, false, false, null);
     instance:setContainerObject("TextVariables", view_3);
     scope=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.TypeRegistry:Scope_4_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance);
     role_4=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ContainerAdapter:View_3_SimpleProcess_PotentialOwners_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance, scope, -1, false, false, null);
     payload=request:getData();
     mapper=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.Transformer:DataMapper();
     yves_in=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.Transformer:Data();
     yves_in:setData("sap.com/glx/", "$sap.com/glx/:Empty", payload, "03B52A6F6BA8CA710F0EFCC44F7C5AE4");
     yves_out=new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.Transformer:Data();
     mapper:map("E0E1B8C6C5CC519433E611DE90710050569E73BC_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499", yves_in, yves_out);
     delete yves_in;
     delete yves_out;
     delete mapper;
     new com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.LoggingAdapter:FlightRecorder_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(instance);
   }"
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.execution.transition.ScriptTransition.execute(ScriptTransition.java:83)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.execution.transition.Transition.commence(Transition.java:141)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.mmtx.DirectNestedTransaction.inPrepare(DirectNestedTransaction.java:67)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.mmtx.AbstractTransaction.do_prepare(AbstractTransaction.java:200)
   ... 110 more
   Caused by: com.sap.glx.core.kernel.api.TransitionException: An exception occurred while executing the script command "instance=new com.sap.glx.adapter.BPMNAdapter:Instance_0_SimpleProcess_40cf97feea7e82e95a52e04629485499(initiator, null, kicker, false)"
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.trigger.config.Script.execute(Script.java:803)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.execution.transition.ScriptTransition.execute(ScriptTransition.java:78)
   ... 113 more
   Caused by: com.sap.glx.core.kernel.api.TransitionRollbackException
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.mmtx.AbstractTransactionBase.rollback(AbstractTransactionBase.java:839)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.mmtx.AbstractTransactionBase.rollback(AbstractTransactionBase.java:848)
   at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.GalaxyClassImpl.create(GalaxyClassImpl.java:219)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.trigger.config.Script$NewInstance.execute(Script.java:368)
   at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.trigger.config.Script.execute(Script.java:798)
   ... 114 more
   Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: BPMN process could not be started; maximum number of 2000 allowed active processes reached; try again later
   at com.sap.glx.process.adapter.bpmn.impl.ProcessInstanceCountBrake.assertNotInErrorState(ProcessInstanceCountBrake.java:115)
   at com.sap.glx.process.adapter.bpmn.impl.ProcessInstanceCountBrake.assertProcessStartAllowed(ProcessInstanceCountBrake.java:105)
   at com.sap.glx.process.adapter.bpmn.impl.BPMNDisasterBrakes.assertProcessStartAllowed(BPMNDisasterBrakes.java:50)
   at com.sap.glx.process.adapter.bpmn.impl.BPMNInstanceHandler.onConstruction(BPMNInstanceHandler.java:115)
   at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.DockObjectImpl.creation(DockObjectImpl.java:203)
   at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.GalaxyClassImpl.create(GalaxyClassImpl.java:209)
   ... 116 more

(This will be a series of blogs on my experience turning on Process Observer)

The Mission.

A few weeks ago, I was given the task to prototype the usage of Process Observer in our SRM 7 sandbox.  This basically my own fault… over the past few years, I’ve gotten really annoyed at the fact that our current SRM5 workflows have to write to custom tables every step along the way so that this information can be pushed up to our BW system. So I say it’s my fault because after a few frustrasting days debugging a timing problem between SRM5/WF/BW, when one of my teammates came to talk about what we should do in SRM7, I said ‘Implement Process Observer and get rid of all this <junk>’.  

I didn’t make this recommendation lightly.  I had (I thought) learned a bit about Process Observer and it’s mighty big brother SAP Operational Intelligence (powered by HANA) thru various webcasts and TechEd Sessions, blogs on SCN, and generally drinking Peter McNulty’s Kool-Aid.

Step 1 – Gather the information!

So I gathered my learning materials, which I will provide to here.

First off, I had a copy of a TechEd Workshop that I had attended in 2011.  And I also had browsed around on SCN and found an extremely well organized series of blogs by the Process Observer team.  Basically, just type in ‘Process Observer’ in the search bar, and the first result will be an overview, which is also updated to reflect subsequent blogs and documents.  So for this well organized set of information, I would like to call out my thanks to:

Jens-Christoph Nolte

Bernd Schmidt

Matthias Saettele

I also did due diligence with the SAP Help Portal, but I will have to admit, I was discouraged when the number of hits showed up.   Fortunately, in the Workshop documentation, they have included the link to the right area (at the time) so you don’t need to search 11796 hits.

(NB: Did I really think I would only get 5 – 10 hits on the phrase ‘process observer’?  No, of course not.  That would be like Googling ‘cat videos’ and being surprised not to find your own cat immediately.)

At any rate, the Help is there, if you need it – and it is actually contained on the main Process Observer discussion page – so you don’t need to search the Help Portal at all.

Armed as I was, and having a pretty good idea of the Value Proposition of Process Observer (It’s using GPS while you drive, rather than a map) I was eager to get at it.  And I was probably even more eager, because I feel as though a person with SAP Workflow skills and an understanding of Business Object Repository objects and BOR events will have a sound footing with Process Observer, although I also don’t think that is a prerequisite.

I scanned the first 25 pages of the TechEd Workshop presentation in order to get to ‘Activate Process Observer’. I always feel that when I begin working in a new area, I need to click something, show something, activate something – in order to get a quick win and boost confidence. 

Step 2 – Turn something (anything?) on

In the case of Process Observer, it’s pretty obvious what your first step needs to be, because it is delivered as a component of SAP Business Suite – which means that you need to use transaction SFW5 (Switch Framework Customizing) to turn it on.  Once you do, then an additional source of information is available via the IMG. But there’s no IMG on Process Observer until you switch it on.

The first thing you get is this pop-up:

Go ahead, and continue.  On the next screen, if you hover over ‘FND_EPT_PROC_ORCH_1 you can see that this is a reversible business function.  Of course, it’s clear now that I needed to check the check box and select ‘Activate Changes’. 

You may notice from here on out that I stop referring to it as ‘Process Observer’ and start referring to it as ‘POB’.  We’re just on good terms like that. 

I always feel better knowing that there is a background job running.  To make sure that I had actually turned POB on, I tried the Implementation Guide….

I knew I was successful because I could check against a system that did NOT have POB turned on, and I was not  able to see these entries.

The next thing I did - before any other work! – was to go a little further in the guide and select any transaction codes I found, and built myself a little folder of transactions related to POB.  Don’t mock me for pointing this out.  When you have navigated thru Tools> ABAP Workbench> Development> SAP Business Workflow > Definition tools > Events > Event creation about, oh, a thousand times, you’ll start adding your most-used transactions to a folder too.

That’s all for this entry. I will be working on the next ones even as you are reading this.  I hope you leave some comments!

Summary:

• - It’s much harder to find the help, tutorials, and blogs, discussions that you might need if you go in unprepared and then try to dig your way out of a mess. 

• - Expect a certain level of uncertainty.  Take screen shots and keep a word document (or whatever your preference is) all along the way.
• - Pace yourself. Yes, I might be able to turn on POB in an hour.  But understanding what I am doing – not just racing to get it done – is the real bonus.

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Process Observer (POB) Direct Event API for Logging Processes from SAP and Non-SAP Systems In his latest blog Bernd Schmitt introduces the direct event API which can be used as an alternative to BOR events for Business Suite applications working with Process Observer.

How Bank of America uses SAP’s Process Orchestration technologies In his latest blog Eduardo Chiocconi is sharing key takeaways from SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 and highlighting Bank of America’s story. Watch the full session replay to learn how the bank has simplified invoice processing with SAP NetWeaver BPM & BRM.

SAP Operational Process Intelligence on HANA - a boost for process efficiency! Check out Sebastian Zick’s blog for first hand experiences from CubeServ’s participation in the ramp-up of SAP Operational Process Intelligence.

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration Webcast Series 2013 Join us for a 5 webcast series to hear latest news about Process Management software from SAP: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, SAP Operational Process Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver Decision Service Management. Please share with anyone who may be interested. Recordings will be available for reply until the end of 2013 - details in the blog!

BPMN within NWDS (NetWeaver Developer Studio) - Not just a Development tool! In his first SCN blog Thomas Scaysbrook points out the importance of using a BPMN modeller as early as possible in the process design and shares useful tips for aiding Business & IT communication and collaboration as the process is coming to life.

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> Welcome to SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.31 and to the Process Orchestration space!

* Also visit the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration SCN Wiki *

*Recent Features*

Is there a standard way to search for a BPM process instance by information from the context. Something like payload search in PI? If it exists, what release of SAP NW BPM is required to use this function?

I did already read about the possibility to build custom Visual Composer Dashboards based on custom reporting data sources. First this is a litte too much "custom" for my taste and second I am not sure if it is possible to provide a real "interactive" search UI this way.

Best regards,

Ulf

Hello experts,

I'm facing following issue: when BPM mapping fails in runtime (for example mandatory element is not populated) there is no info about error in NWA logs. Process is suspended in error status, but there are no error details in NWA log viewer. It is not easy to find out what happened in this case.

I'm using CE 7.3 EHP1.

What may be the reason of this issue? Maybe some configuration is missing?

Thanks in advance,

Alexei

Hi,

There is a setting for " Process Instance Memory Threshold "&#157; under NWA -> Availability and Performance Management -> BPM System Overview. Here the threshold values of processes are set i.e. the maximum number of process instances which can be raised in the system prevents raising new requests. We can configure two types of thresholds: Warning and error thresholds. Process instances that exceed the error threshold are suspended and further instantiations are denied.

What we want to confirm is that while counting these processes does the system only consider the processes which are " In Progress "&#157; state or does it take into account all the processes which have been raised(In Progress, Completed, Suspended, Cancelled).

Please let me know if anybody worked on this.

Regards,

Pradeep

Hello,

I have created a NW BPM pattern to collect multiple messages (2 messages of different type using correlation condition) and it's working fine.

But now i want to formulate my correlation in such a manner that any of the two intermediate messages used in BPM pattern can initiate the flow and eventually correlation for the second intermediate message.

So wanted to ask that can we use OR operation under correlation conditions?

Something like this:

Intermediate Message 1 -> correlation condition -> Count2 = 0 OR MT_Message1/Record/Id = ID_2

Intermediate Message 2 -> correlation condition -> Count1 = 0 OR MT_Message2/Record/Id = ID_1

Thanks

Amit Srivastava

Hi All

Getting this exception while accesing CAF object

java.lang.RuntimeException: Missing CMF Instance, GUID = 109f573d-b01g-11f3-8f98-00060b4c8900

Please provide your inputs.

Thanks

Karthi

Hello Everyone,

Can someone tell me if the timeout scenario I have designed is correct in the below BPM design? My scenario should work like this - there was an automated activity that send Synchronous call to SAP(through PI) and if there was no response within 5 minutes, the time out process should trigger and go to the exception path.

Thanks,

Justin.

Hello Everyone,

I'm having some issues with encoding issues when BPM Automated Activity calls PI Operation Mapping. The actual data PI mapping must return is Regulatory General – Ext Resources  (Please see it has extended hyphen), but it's returning Regulatory General – Ext Resources. I'm not sure how to set encoding for the automated activity call.

Thanks,

Justin.

Dear all,

I have encountered a possible issue when modeling a collaboration interaction between multiple pools in BPMN using NWDS.

The problem arises when an interaction represented as a message flow between two pools is modeled. The first pool (considered as black-box) represents a B2B partner which sends a message to a second pool (considered as white-box) which represents an internal process. Right now I have only managed to model an outgoing message flow to the first to the second pool.

All other subsequent interactions (between these two pools) are not be possible within the modeling tool provided by SAP BPM. See screen shot below.

It looks like only interactions between (white-box) pools are allowed in SAP BPM.

Has someone experienced this behavior in SAP BPM before?

Is this a bug in the product or am I missing some configuration or guidance in how to deal with this kind of collaboration BPMN diagrams?

Many thanks,

Roberto Viana

Hello,

Does anyone know where I get download SAP Solution Composer from ? All the sites I have gone to have links that don't work or web pages that are not found.  Thanks.

I posted this article today on Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2013/08/12/why-data-first-development-rapidly-fills-application-whitespace/

I argue that we should build on what users do to solve their own problems, that is use spreadsheets as a start and build from there. This data first approach is very natural, although at scale it leads to a mess.

In the article I compare it to the process first approach that was advocated by the BPX community. This approach requires a talented designer.

I would love to get some ideas about ways that large SAP shops are filling whitespace with application development techniques that are data first.

One other question: What parts of the BOBJ portfolio could play a role?

Hi all,

There is a setting for “Process Instance Memory Threshold” under NWA -> Availability and Performance Management -> BPM System Overview. Here the threshold values of processes are set i.e. the maximum number of process instances which can be raised in the system .We can configure two types of thresholds: Warning and error thresholds.

What I want to confirm is that while counting these processes does the system only consider the processes which are “In Progress” state or does it take into account all the processes which have been raised(In Progress, Completed, Suspended, Cancelled).

plz help

regards

vamsi

Hi  everyone,

    I recieve a  request from my customer .The scenarios like this:when user get serval  task notifications , then he get a view  of the tasks  by the link

<http://hostName:port/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/tc~bpem~wdui~taskinstance/ATaskExecution?taskId=6fdcaa15dd6d11e2a576000003e0823a>

and some can deal with immediatly ,but others didn't complete .after serval days , user open the task by the link in his email box. then

it come up with a tip : 'a error occurred when  trying  to retrieve  a task , you  are not allowed to perform the operation'.

   I know  the  reason is that  the task haved compeletd  .My customer want to modify the tip, you haved completed the task. I think this is sap built-in 

and we can't modify .Do you have  any good ideas or some  sugguestion . Thanks you very much.

Hi All,

even I undeploy my processes with the nwds the processes are still in the Process Repository. How can I delete the processes completely?

Thanks in advance!

Process Observer – Old dogs and new tricks, part deux

In my first blog of this series, I laid out the resources I had found for learning about this new (to me, anyway) tool, and activated it.  You can read it here.

In this blog, I try to get down to brass tacks, so to speak.  I will use mainly the IMG to step thru turning on a process, although I also refer back to my trusty workshop as well as the main Process Observer (POB) page.

Via transaction SPRO, navigate to:  Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications > Process Orchestration for Built-In Processes

1) Maintain Objects in Façade Layer

The first time thru here, I admit to being a little lost.  BO Type 001 = Purchase Order?  In whose world?  In mine, it’s BUS2201.  I’ve later understood that these are (as the name suggests - Façade ) essentially SOA objects, so it’s not necessary that there is a ‘direct link’ to good old BUS2201 here.  Since I didn’t really understand this (these BO types and Task Types are alien) I went with creating my own.  The again, the TaskTypeIDs were also a puzzle, so I just created my own. 

• Do it better– don’t bother creating your own BO Type and Task first off.  Use a BO Type that you can relate to. Remember a Business Object Type (BO Type) is in the Facade Layer, and a BOR Type is from the Business Object Repository.
  

2)  Activate Business Object Log– Easy!  I turned on Standard Logging with my custom BO Type! This step links the activation with the BO Type (not the BOR Type). 

3)  Maintain Business Area– You will probably use this as you go forward – but first off, you can give this a pass.  This is not a ‘Business Area’ as in GSBER, but a filter to be used in the BADIs.   Still, I wanted to tick all the boxes in the IMG, so I created a Business Area anyhow.

4)  Maintain Business Object Repository Instrumentation

Well, this is just what I wanted!   Someplace where things I already know about can be linked to the POB BO Types!  Onward!!!

This is where the rubber meets the road – the linkage between the BO Type and the familiar old BOR type BUS2201.    You’ll note that this is why I said you should run with the predefined/delivered BO Type – it is already linked to BUS2201, so my entries were superfluous.

But I have a minor whinge when I read the help on this topic:

Maintain Business Object Repository Instrumentation

Use

In this Customizing activity, you create an infrastructure whereby events specific to the Business Object Repository (BOR) are captured, using logging, by process orchestration.

Requirements

BOR events are available in the system.

You have defined reusable tasks and business object types in the facade layer.

You have enabled the switched package BS_POC_SFWS_01.

Activities

You must carry out the following activites:

Map BOR events to tasks in the view cluster POC_VC_BOR.

Map business object types to BOR objects in the view cluster POC_VC_BOR.

Set the report RSWFEVTPOQUEUE as a background-running job.

My whinge here is that telling people to maintain a view cluster isn't very friendly.

* Do it better– Don’t try to find view clusters to maintain.  The transaction POC_BOR will contain all the Business Object Repository maintenance. 

     And no, I’ll say it again (I said it in my previous blog) you do not need to be a workflow developer to turn on         POB.  

5)  Map Previous Objects from Business Object Repository Payload – After hemming and hawing on this one, I decided this would be necessary in case of a process definition that spanned BO types.

6)  Schedule Business Object Repository Event Processing.  No prob.

7) Check Process Monitoring Events for BOR

1. At this point, I have already learned some lessons.  Originally, I thought I should create my own BO Type (not to be confused with BOR objects) – as it turns out, I was wrong.  I got some excellent counseling from the POB Team ( Christoph Nolte  and Peter McNulty ) and they set me straight.
2. Everything is not all about the BOR. Yes, it’s like a nice comfy old  robe, but the POB functionality was built to be inclusive of BOR objects, not exclusive.  Don’t let it throw you.
3. You will notice that these customizing entries were not really ‘technical’ – there is no coding, no workflowing, no ‘logic’ behind them. This is why it’s clear that you need to have your business analysts engaged.  Since I am working on a prototype, I can just forge ahead and make these things up.  But in a real POB implementation, I am going to have the business people in on this. There is more stuff later on, as I define my Process Definition, where they could really be helpful.

  This seems like a good breaking point.  My next blog will focus on the actual process definition.  Meanwhile, I'd like to ask you - are you thinking of implementing POB?  You do know it's a 'gateway' to Operation Process Intelligence(Powered by HANA) right?  If you have already implemented POB, what benefits has your organization seen