Mass Processing of UWL Tasks where Task is not of decision Type Task (Like Standard Leave Request)
This Blog describes the Mass Processing of UWL tasks where Task is not of decision type Task Like Standard Leave Request Tasks. In this blog I have described how to add new custom columns in UWL also. Required Skill: Idea about UWL Configuration file (xml file), little knowledge of Workflow Container if need to add some new custom columns in UWL, UWL administration works. Piyush in Enterprise Portal (EP), Universal Worklist [Mar. 11, 2011 10:00 AM | 17 Comments | Permalink]

iGoogle Gadget (featuring UWL,BPM,JSON & OAuth) - Part 3
Final blog about creating an iGoogle Gadget showing the UWL Tasks from a BPM Process. This part will focus on creating the iGoogle Gadget for your iGoogle Homepage. Leo van Hengel in Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Widgets [Feb. 04, 2011 09:53 AM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

Progress at ASUG Portal Influence Council and new member survey
Portal influence council progress review and an invitation to join. Jerzy Bilchuk in Enterprise Portal (EP), Knowledge Management (KM), Search, Universal Worklist [Jan. 14, 2011 06:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

iGoogle Gadget (featuring UWL,BPM,JSON & OAuth) - Part 2
Second blog about the iGoogle Gadget showing the UWL Tasks from a BPM Process. This part is about the creation of the OAuth Provider. Leo van Hengel in Java Programming, Service-Oriented Architecture, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Widgets [Jan. 06, 2011 06:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

iGoogle Gadget (featuring UWL,BPM,JSON & OAuth) - Part 1
This blog explains how to develop an iGoogle Gadget which retrieves Universal Worklist tasks from a custom OAuth Provider on SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2. Leo van Hengel in Java Programming, Service-Oriented Architecture, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Widgets [Dec. 20, 2010 01:44 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

NetWeaver BPM 7.20: Enhanced task notification
This blog shows, how to send enhanced task notification e-mail on NetWeaver BPM 7.20. Hiroyuki Otaki in Business Process Management, Enterprise Portal (EP), Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Oct. 08, 2010 02:15 AM | 19 Comments | Permalink]

Custom Attributes in UWL
UWL provides standard item attributes like Subject, From, Sent Date, Priority etc., that can be used as attributes for defining views. Sometimes there may be business requirement to show additional business specific attributes also in the UWL table. We can display values for these custom attributes in the UWL, by customizing the standard UWL XML file. This blog would explain in detail how to add columns for custom attributes in UWL View, and how to fetch values for those custom attributes. Avantika Kakran in Enterprise Portal (EP), Universal Worklist [Oct. 06, 2010 03:03 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

How to Create General UWL Notifications
The notification tab in the Universal Work List (UWL) only displays missed-deadline notifications by default. Many times, you want to send other notifications to users. That is possible using the SONiC utility. Many times Basis is too busy to help you install that utility. This blog describes a work around to get you going until Basis has the time. If you really like it, then this might be your permanent solution. Abdullah Azzouni in ABAP, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist [Jun. 14, 2010 04:41 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Business prototyping, the vehicle to bring people into action
Business prototyping means the whole exercise from strategy planning to application (prototype system) implementation, to evaluation. This is very effective vehicle to help customers / companies put their plan in to action -- even addressing politics. I’d like to introduce why Business Prototyping works and how it works in terms of bringing customers / orgainzation upto next level; based on my experiences in the Value Prototyping / Center of Excellence, SAP Hosin Min in Business Process Expert, Sustainability, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Solution Manager, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP Research, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP EcoHub, Organizational Change Management, Enterprise Performance Management, Composition Environment (CE), Co-Innovation Lab, Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Universal Worklist [Jun. 01, 2010 05:39 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

Playing 20 Questions with SAP’s On-Demand + On-Premise Product Strategy
This blog examines SAP's Product Strategy as it relates to the interaction between On-Demand and On-Premise environments. Based on a game of '20 Questions', an attempt is made to clarify SAP's intentions regarding this innovative technology. I've even left a few questions open for others to join in the game. Richard Hirsch1 in Beyond SAP, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP Business Suite, Ranting, ERP, Enhancement Packages, Emerging Technologies, Business Solutions, Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist [May. 24, 2010 09:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Displaying Universal Worklist Items in Microsoft SharePoint
In this post, I give an overview of what I had to do in order to display UWL items (for instance items coming from a BPM instance) in a Microsoft SharePoint page. The described solution makes use of custom code that generates an RSS feed of the UWL items. Boris Magocsi in Enterprise Portal (EP), Interoperability, Interoperability .NET, Java Programming, Universal Worklist [May. 04, 2010 01:04 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

How To Customize UWL Substitution People Picker Search Results
This document shows how to restrict the search results for users in the substitution component of UWL. This screen, also known as the people picker, is where users can select someone to receive and act on work items on behalf of them. Marty McCormick in Enterprise Portal (EP), Knowledge Management (KM), Universal Worklist [Apr. 28, 2010 01:29 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Display dynamic columns for business workplace in the UWL
How to display dynamic columns for the business workplace in the UWL. Pierre DOMINIQUE in Business Process Expert, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist [Feb. 08, 2010 02:33 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Benefit Now From Support Package 4 for SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1
SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Support Package 4 is available for download. Benefit from the enhancements it has in stock. This blog focuses on the SP4 enhancements related to flexible master data creation scenarios in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver BPM. Markus Ganser in , Universal Worklist, Service-Oriented Architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Web Dynpro [Feb. 05, 2010 05:58 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Continuously Assuring and Controlling Master Data Quality (Part One)
To ensure flawless business processes and company-wide analyses, you must always know if your enterprise-critical data complies with your company standards. If not, you must be able to take immediate action. SAP has the appropriate monitoring and reconciliation capabilities - combined in a seamless process environment. Part one of this blog series concentrates on the business aspect of continuous data quality assurance, while part two will put emphasis on architectural and implementation considerations of this scenario. Markus Ganser in Analytics, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Business Workflow, Master Data Management (MDM), Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Universal Worklist [Feb. 01, 2010 06:49 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM: Enhancing enterprise operational efficiency and sustainable development capability - Part 4
Introducing how SAP BPM (Business Process Management) helps local Chinese's customer to improving operation and management efficiency as high-flexible and high-agile within whole corporate, and optimizing and re-forming some complicated business processes meanwhile Alex Liu in Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, Enterprise Portal (EP), Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Web Dynpro [Jan. 21, 2010 07:48 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM: Enhancing enterprise operational efficiency and sustainable development capability - Part 3
Introducing how SAP BPM (Business Process Management) helps local Chinese's customer to improving operation and management efficiency as high-flexible and high-agile within whole corporate, and optimizing and re-forming some complicated business processes meanwhile. Alex Liu in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Jan. 18, 2010 07:58 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM: Enhancing enterprise operational efficiency and sustainable development capability - Part 2
Introducing how SAP BPM (Business Process Management) helps local Chinese's customer to improving operation and management efficiency as high-flexible and high-agile within whole corporate, and optimizing and re-forming some complicated business processes meanwhile. Alex Liu in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Jan. 13, 2010 11:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM: Enhancing enterprise operational efficiency and sustainable development capability - Part 1
Introducing how SAP BPM (Business Process Management) helps local Chinese's customer to improving operation and management efficiency as high-flexible and high-agile within whole corporate, and optimizing and re-forming some complicated business processes meanwhile. Alex Liu in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Jan. 11, 2010 01:10 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

PI collaboration and workflow interaction as future trend
Workflow will integrate transactions, interfaces and people inside and outside of the company to overall business processes. This is the real new application in the next decade and you will find no other strong platform than the SAP combination of ERP, Workflow, Process Integration and human interaction with this level of integration. The sum of all these components and the art of mastering cllaboration processes makes the new IT architecture for the next decade. Holger Stumm in Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, ERP, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Universal Worklist [Jan. 11, 2010 01:08 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

BPM Experience, the third one!
The more I learn about BPM and my project, the more complex it become. How can I use the Visual Composer simple samples in a BPM Project? sirnejo in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture, Universal Worklist [Dec. 21, 2009 04:28 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Typical BPM Workflow HOWTO on NW CE 7.1 Ehp1: Scenario 9 - Comment area for the approval/rejection
This blog explains common pieces of typical workflow scenario in the real life. We will discuss how to implement these common workflow design by NW BPM of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 Ehp1. This contents require beginner level knowledge of NW BPM on 7.1 Ehp1. Kenichi Unnai in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist [Dec. 14, 2009 10:31 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Typical BPM Workflow HOWTO on NW CE 7.1 Ehp1: Scenario 5 - Role delegation
This blog explains common pieces of typical workflow scenario in the real life. We will discuss how to implement these common workflow design by NW BPM of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 Ehp1. This contents require beginner level knowledge of NW BPM on 7.1 Ehp1. Kenichi Unnai in Business Process Management, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist [Dec. 04, 2009 02:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG Presents: Web Dynpro, WF, and UWL webcast - Proceedings now available
On November 18, 2009, Jon Cocks of Boeing gave a webcast entitled "Use Web Dynpro for ABAP, Workflow, and the UWL to Revolutionize Decision Processing"... Susan Keohan in SAP Business Workflow, ABAP, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Dec. 02, 2009 06:49 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG Presents: Web Dynpro, WF, and UWL webcast
America's SAP User Group (ASUG) is pleased to offer this webcast titled 'Use Web Dynpro for ABAP, Workflow, and the UWL to Revolutionize Decision Processing'. Susan Keohan in ABAP, Business Process Modeling, SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Nov. 13, 2009 07:01 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Enhance Your Business Process Productivity by Enhancing User Productivity. [Part 1]
Have you ever thought about, why most of the expensive and complex SAP implementations are failing to satisfy the end users. And to make them user friendly how much money is spent in rework. Follow this blog series to understand how low user productivity can directly hit the overall business productivity and also learn few solutions to resolve these problems. Mohid Khan in ABAP, Web Dynpro, Visual Composer, Universal Worklist, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Enterprise Portal (EP), Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE) [Nov. 06, 2009 02:22 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

BPM in Ten Years? My Best Shot
At SAP TechEd 2009 Vienna, I met Chris Horak, who told me that he wondered what the future of Business Process Management might look like: “What will the successors of today’s BPM and ERP software in 10 or 15 years look like?” I took up the challenge and gave the matter some thought. Here's my best shot at it. Thorsten Franz in Beyond SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Ranting, ERP, Emerging Technologies, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist [Oct. 31, 2009 04:15 PM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

Usability tests for SAP's technology tools
SAP Usability Test Center, SAP User Experience, usability, SAP TechEd, SAP TechEd Vienna, UI design Martin Hofmann in Analytics, Universal Worklist, SAP TechEd, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management, Java Programming, Interoperability, Integration and Certification, Enterprise Portal (EP), Eclipse, Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Beginner, Web Dynpro [Oct. 22, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to use UWL API for NetWeaver BPM Tasks
This blog is talking about the tips of how to use UWL API for NetWeaver BPM task. Kenichi Unnai in Business Process Management, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Enterprise Portal (EP) [Oct. 19, 2009 11:36 PM | 43 Comments | Permalink]

Bring the Business Suite to your Desktop -- Try XBCML Widgets Today
The Business Solutions and Technology Innovation Center has launched its XBCML Widgets prototype on the SAP Community Network today. Find out more, download it, and let us know what you think! Moya Watson in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Universal Worklist, Widgets [Oct. 16, 2009 02:11 PM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

Become part of the SAP BPM strategy!
Want to make your voice heard on BPM? Meet head of SAP BPM solution management Wolfgang Hilpert and his team at TechEd Phoenix to discuss and influence direction of SAP's BPM products. Harald Nehring in Business Process Expert, Visual Composer, Universal Worklist, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP TechEd, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, SAP Business Workflow, Eclipse, Composition Environment (CE), SAP Business Suite, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Web Dynpro [Oct. 07, 2009 02:29 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Workflow search utility
New search utility for workflow threads, blogs and articles Ravi Dixit in ABAP, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow, Search, Universal Worklist [Sep. 08, 2009 06:03 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Structure of POWL´s
This blog refers to blog 1 “Introduction into POWER Lists” and covers the possibilities of structuring POWL´s according to the users/business needs. Frank Tycner in Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro, Wholesale Distribution [Aug. 13, 2009 09:04 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Introduction into POWER Lists
This is a series of three blogs dealing with POWER Lists! Currently there is less information about it, hence this is a starting point to give you an overview from a business perspective downto technical aspects. Frank Tycner in Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro, Wholesale Distribution [Jul. 24, 2009 02:07 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

A Generic Tool for Process Monitoring
A Generic Tool for GP instance monitoring. Abhilash Gampa in Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), Java Programming, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [May. 29, 2009 11:10 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

HCM Processes & Forms: The Three Scroll Bars
A workaround for the dreaded three scroll bars in HCM P&F. Bryan Cain in ABAP, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro, Business Solutions [May. 05, 2009 06:43 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

ABAPers, Should You Jump the CE train?
SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment is advancing, but is the market ready for you, dear fellow ABAPer, to jump the CE train? In this blog, I share my idle and baseless speculations about future adoption of the platform, which skill-increasing investments might work, and how to get started with CE. Thorsten Franz in ABAP, Visual Composer, Universal Worklist, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Java Programming, Interoperability, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Expert, Beginner, Application Server, Web Dynpro [Apr. 19, 2009 03:47 PM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

Santa adds Parent Approval to Guided Procedure in CE 7.1
How could Santa use Visual Composer and Guided Procedures to improve compliance with parents wishes ? Owen Pettiford in Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist, Visual Composer [Dec. 16, 2008 12:42 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Awesome tool: SAPJarFinder
SAPJarFinder is a web-site and associated tools Browser and Eclipse plug-in) that help you find the jar files for Java classes. It also possible to add code snippets to particular classes. Richard Hirsch1 in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), Java Programming, Knowledge Management (KM), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, SAP xApps, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Dec. 13, 2008 06:49 AM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Netweaver - BPM & SOA Enabler
This blog captures the various technology incorporated in SAP NetWeaver to enable BPM and SOA in SAP arena. Prateek Raj Srivastava in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Universal Worklist [Dec. 02, 2008 11:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BPM / Rules Engine and Guided Procedure Mash Up
How to combine Guided Procedures and NetWeaver BPM Owen Pettiford in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Universal Worklist [Nov. 16, 2008 01:44 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

MSS: Delegation....the final frontier?
Delegation (also known to some as “substitution”) seems to be one of those last unexplored frontiers for SAP in the area of self-services. However, it comes up in almost every MSS project. The obvious question then is "why has SAP not provided a standard solution?" Chris Solomon in Universal Worklist [Oct. 24, 2008 08:45 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Building up and customizing your own Worklist
In this weblog, I'll try to give you another view perspective on how you can access your worklist items and still have your own design and functionality in addition. Todor Petrov in Application Server, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Sep. 03, 2008 10:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) Survey
If you are using the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment then we would like to hear from you. Your feedback will be used to communicate findings directly into the development process with the main goal of improving product quality. Please use the link within the Blog to access the survey. Werner Steyn in Business Process Management, Visual Composer, Universal Worklist, SAP TechEd, Open Source, Java Programming, Interoperability .NET, Service-Oriented Architecture, Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Web Dynpro [Sep. 02, 2008 09:08 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

HCM Processes & Forms: Tips and Tricks for a Successful Project
Want to get up and going with HCM Processes & Forms fast and successfully? Here are a few tips and tricks I learned from going through a real world project. Chris Solomon in Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist [Aug. 13, 2008 09:38 AM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

Invalid URL issue in UWL
After configuration of UWL,we were stuck with a issue even after following SAP Note:646601 .i.e.Invalid URL.This Blog explains about that issue. srikanth d in Application Server, SAP TechEd, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Integration and Certification, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Business Solutions, Business Process Expert, Beginner, Universal Worklist [Aug. 08, 2008 05:48 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Articles Submission on SCN and the SDNContent Inbox
Have a question about your submitted article? in this blog you will find information of how to submit your article, the review process and links to how to do it in a way that will save time when reviewing your article. David Metser in ABAP, Mobile, SAP Business One, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP xApps, Scripting Languages, Universal Worklist, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, Master Data Management (MDM), Knowledge Management (KM), Java Programming, Beginner, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert, Enterprise Portal (EP), Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability .NET, Interoperability IBM, Widgets [Jul. 16, 2008 06:44 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Using RFC with Table Parameters as External Service Callable Objects
Stranded with using the existing standard BAPIs as external services due to the table parameters in them; heres a attempt to overcome that. Pinky Varghese in ABAP, Application Server, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Portal (EP), Universal Worklist [Jul. 07, 2008 10:42 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

HCM Processes & Forms: Gotchas, Bugs and Other Curiosities
HCM Processes & Forms offers a world of possibilities for automating HR and other employee related processes. However, as the old maps of the uncharted seas would note "Here there be monsters". Chris Solomon in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Enhancement Packages, Enterprise Portal (EP), JavaScript, Universal Worklist, Web Dynpro [Jun. 30, 2008 11:30 AM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

New Universal Worklist Troubleshooting Guide
New Troubleshooting section has appeared inside the Universal Worklist FAQ Wiki page. Peter Csontos in Universal Worklist [May. 27, 2008 12:13 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]