how to trigger workflow from the html

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Hi Gurus & Experts,

I have to trigger a workflow through portal html. How can I do this?

My work scenerio is as follows ..

When an employee goes to an ess screen and opens the open enrollment form of benefits. he will be displayed with a list of insurance plans.

If he chooses a new plan which he is not enrolled, the screen throughs another screen showing to add the selected plan. Here

present situation is --- that screen directly updates the r/3 infotype through its server.

Required situation --- when the person adds the new plan a new pop up as to be triggerred with yes or no button. If he press yes, workflow as to trigger for an approval first then update the datbase infotypes in r/3

Can anyone help me with following questions

1. How to create a pop up in html

2. how to trigger a workflow when the employee press yes button in pop up window in html.

Please help me.

[martin_nooteboom]

Hi,

I am not sure ho you could trigger it from HTML, but you could use another option. Update the infotype, but lock it. Then you can raise an event on the infotype and after approval unlock the infotype in the workflow.

The only way I know you could trigger a workflow is using an XML file which you send to the system. But then you need at least an WAS 6.20 and you need to configure a workflow so it could be started by a XML-file.

Either way it will be some work.

Regards,

Martin