Process Observer Discussion

[JChristophNolte]

This thread is dedicated to questions and discussions around the Process Observer component that is part of Business Suite.

Process Observer is used in different scenarios, including and prominently with Operational Process Intelligence.

For details on what Process observer is see here.

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have the following questions about Process Observer :

1. I modelled a new proces , but when checking the process definition i get multiple errors :

No BOR event of class assigned to any tak

I m sure that i assign for every activity a task with bor :

2. The second question : i m looking for step by step tutorial for pushing the Process Observer log to SAP ESP or/and HANA.

Thanks in Advance,

Kind Regards

[JChristophNolte]

Hi Moo,

thanks for you interest in Process Observer. I hope I can help you a bit here.

With regards to your first question, you are right, you probably have assigned a task to every activity - if not there would be a different message, which you have probably seen before. "No BOR event of class assigned to any task" indicates a different situation, that is likely to be a problem (but doesn't have to be). The problem here is in view cluster POC_BOR, where you assign a BOR event to the task. The tasks are modeling artefacts that have to be mapped to something "real". This mapping should be against a BOR event (or something else). If no task assigned to an activity (in your case task 114-21) is assigned a BOR event, the activity will never be logged. Except if the task is raised against the direct API or the generic BOR event or something else that you would be aware of (you have to do that). So the message indicates that something must been set up for this to work; if so, you can disregard the message (it won't go away, may it would be a good idea to give the user the option to mark this as "not really a problem"). - I don't know which system you are doing this in, but in an ERP system 114-21 should be mapped against a BOR event, i.e. you should find something like

in view cluster POC_BOR -> Map BOR Event to Task (provided you have the right SP, but this was delivered pretty early on). If not, let me know... it really should be there.

Your second question is certainly more difficult to answer. Let me try, though. Process Observer data is stored in simple tables, so replicating to HANA follows standard procedures, e.g. through SAP LT replication server (formerly often called "SLT") and general information can be found at http://scn.sap.com/community/replication-server. For the list of relevant tables, see note 1852213. For ESP, it is probably easy to find a generic link, I have no specific experience with that; but I do not understand what you would want to do here, I would need to understand the use case better. The same is true for the information given with regards to SAP LT: The tables you need depend on your use case, the set given above is what you would "commonly" want (even if you don't use them in a HANA Live context). You will also want to repliate application tables (e.g. VBAP, if you want to play with sales order related processes). If you are using Process Observer with SAP HANA Live, you may want to look at the views provided in the Virtual Data Model. But the set of tables given in the note should provide a good starting point if you just want to play with this.

Let me know if you have further questions and/or want to discuss your specific use case.

Best regards,

Christoph

[Former Member]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks for the info , very interesting

I dont have a use case right now i just try to play with process observer in combination with SAP hana/Opint.

I searched for the note 1852213  i get the error

: Document not released. could you help?

Thanks & Regards

[JChristophNolte]

Hi Moo,

right, note 1852213 is not released, I'm sorry about that.

Anyway, the required tables have been added as attachment "Tables_SAP_HBA_ECCFND701.txt" of note 1849168 (as pointed out on the overview page). The list of tables mentioned there is:

POC_C_KPI_COUNT

POC_C_KPI_CTG  

POC_C_KPI_CTGD_T

POC_C_KPI_DURA 

POC_C_PRC_KPI  

POC_C_PRC_KPI_T

POC_C_PRC_STAT_T

POC_C_PROCESS  

POC_C_PROCESS_T

POC_C_PS_BND   

POC_C_PS_T     

POC_D_BA_LOG   

POC_D_BA_SRCSYS

POC_D_KPI_ACT  

POC_D_KPI_LOG  

POC_D_PRC_BIND 

POC_D_PRC_IN   

POC_D_PRC_STP_IN

POC_D_PRE_BA   

POC_D_TRACK_THR

POC_I_BA       

POC_I_BA_T     

POC_I_BA_TYPE_T

POC_I_BO_TYPE_T

POC_I_BUS_AREA_T

POC_I_CBE_T

The note is more likely to hold the correct and full list of tables since that may (or may not) change over time. For now the list is fine, if you look at this much later, you may want to check the note.

I'm interested to hear back from you what you did with Process Observer and HANA.

Best regards,

Christoph