Investment Approval Process Reference Scenario

Investment Approval Process Reference Scenario

This documentation provides information about the SAP NetWeaver BPM reference scenario Investment

Approval Process. With the example the user can see the process execution and implementation sources

of the Composition and Business Process application development.

Investment Approval Process 2012

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Investment Approval Process 2012

Table of Content

THE BUSINESS SCENARIO DESCRIPTION ... 4

APPLICATION EXECUTION AND PROCESS MONITORING ... 5

I. Start Process in Web Service Navigator ... 5

II. Process Monitoring ... 12

APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AND SOURCES REVIEW ... 13

I. Configuration steps done for having application running ... 13

II. Application Souces Review ... 14

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THE BUSINESS SCENARIO DESCRIPTION

ITelO is a high tech company manufacturing Laptops, Mobile Phones and PCs and other high tech products. Rudolf Platte, who is working in the Production department frequently orders new tools, machines and supplies. The order is filed via paper form and then sent to the Purchasing Department. For orders exceeding a certain spending limit, an approval by Antonio Lombardo, the Head of Purchasing, is required. Once approved, the order will be sent to the supplier via fax or email. The whole process currently takes up to two days.

Jan Schulz, the Head of Production, sees potential to improve the order process. He wants the order to be sent to the supplier at the very same day so the supplies will arrive the next morning.

SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) enables you to model, connect, compile, deploy, and maintain composite business processes. Investment Approval process demonstrates simplified implementation of ITelO business case. The role of Product Requestor and Approver are played by AS Administrator.

In the application implementation are used BPM for process management , Composite application framework (CAF) for persisting Purchase Order data, Web Dynpro for User Interfaces, and Composite Designer for maintaining composite application components relations.

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APPLICATION EXECUTION AND PROCESS MONITORING

I. Start Process in Web Service Navigator

1. Start a process instance of Investment Approval Process using Web Service Navigator.

You can launch it using the URL

http://<host>:<port>/wsnavig ator or you can go to the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java start page at http://<host>:<port>/startPage and then click on the “Web Service Navigator” icon.

In case you are asked to login, enter administrator

credentials.

You can start processes using the web service interface that is assigned to its start event.

You can call the web service from Web Service Navigator.

2. Select the service interface to start the Investment Approval Process:

start_IAP_EXC_IF.

You find it using the search

term start* for the Search

Type Provider System.

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3. Accept operation startProcess.

4. Enter the input data as

shown in the screenshot.

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5. When you are asked for Login Information enter the following:



For Predefined choose:

Endpoint:

“start_IAP_EXC_IFSOA P”, Service:

“start_IAP_EXC_IF”



For Authentication:

HTTP Authentication



For user name and password use the credentials for Administrator user.

6. Check the result. The HTTP

response must be 202

Accepted.

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6. Open a web browser and enter the following URL:

http://<host>:<port>/irj

This is the SAP NetWeaver Portal. Make sure that the user has the following roles:



pcd:portal_content/every_use r/general/eu_role



pcd:portal_content/com.sap.p ct/every_user/com.sap.bpem/

com.sap.bpem.roles/com.sap.

bpem.Enduser

7. On the starting page click on “Home” icon and then on “Work” button. Click on universal work list

8. Open Approve Request Task in Demo Dee’s inbox.

In case no entry is shown,

click the Refresh button

( ).

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9. The first user interface assigned to the human activity Approve Request opens.

To see the process overview, click on the link Investment Approval Process.

10. The green token indicates where the process currently stands. You can close the Process

Visualization window.

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11. Check the approved box and add a comment.

12. Open Confirm PO Creation Task in Demo Dee’s inbox.

Again make use of the Refresh button ( ) if the entry doesn’t appear automatically.

13. The user interface assigned to human activity Confirm PO Creation opens.

Confirm.

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14. Open the Service Browser.

Type the following URL in your browser:

http://<host>:<port>/caf.

Click on the Service Browser link. Make sure that the user has

SAP_CAF_DEVELOPER role.

The Service Browser lists all deployed applications created in Composite Application perspective (CAF). You can also test service operations in this view.

15. In the Navigator, you find your business object under application bpmiap.bl.caf PurchaseOrder.

16. You see the details of the last execution.

You can repeat the process execution as now with not approving the request (step 11 do not check option

approved ) In that way the Requestor will have a taks to rework the request before being approved by Approver.

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II. Process Monitoring

17. Next, we want to monitor the process instances using Process Management.

Process Management is integrated in SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA). To launch SAP NetWeaver Administrator use the following URL:

http://<host>:<port>/nwa or go to the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java start page at

http://<host>:<port>/startPag e and then click on the SAP NetWeaver Administrator icon.

In case you are asked to login, enter the credentials for NWA administrator.

18. Navigate to Operation Management  Processes and Tasks  Manage Processes.

19. Use the advanced search to search for the most recent process instance by clicking on the Advanced link in the upper right corner.

For searching process instances set the process instance’s Error Status to OK and the Completed From / To fields to the current date.

Click on Go.

Select the last process instance.

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20. On the History tab, you see details of the actions performed on the process instance during its life cycle. It is recommended to set the Show dropdown list to Advanced to see more detailed entries.

APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AND SOURCES REVIEW

I. Configuration steps done for having application running

1. Local Technical System have been created with Web Service type of connectivity and Service Source WSIL ( http://localhost:50000/inspec tion.wsil) in

SOA Management tab

Technical Configuration  System Connections

2. SAP_DEFAULT_PROFILE have been assigned for provided web services by

sap.com/bpmiap~bl~caf~ear and sap.com/bpmiap~pr~pm in SOA Management  Application and Scenario Communication 

Application Communication

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3. Service Group

localhost_iap_sg have been Configured for consuming Web Services in SOA Management  Application and Scenario Communication

 Application Communication

II. Application Souces Review 1.

Developer Studio (NWDS) nwds-extsoa-7.3-SP04- PAT0004-win32.zip

2.

Infrastructure perspective and at Local Development Track select Import SC

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3. Browse and Navigate to provided BPMIAP04_0.sca and press Finish.

After the SC import you will see a new BPMIAP Software Component (SC) containing application development components (DCs):

bpmiap – Software Component description DC bpmiap/bl/caf/dictionary – Composite Application Framework (CAF) dictionary project containing Purchase Order DB table definition bpmiap/bl/caf/ear – CAF application enterprise archive project

bpmiap/bl/caf/ejbmodule – CAF EJB project

bpmiap/bl/caf/metadata – CAF metadata project bpmiap/bl/caf/permissions CAF project permissions bpmiap/pr/pm Business Process Management (BPM) project containing process implementation

bpmiap/ui/wd – Web Dynpro project containing application User interfaces

4. Select all Development Components and Create projects

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5. You can go to Composition Designer perspective main editor and examine components of Investment Approval Process application relations

6.