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Standard vs custom workflow

Former Member
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Hello,

I'm novice in workflow and looking for some guidance here. I have looked into lot of other blogs and most of them been very helpful to me. Still, just wanted to know if some of you can share your experience. My query is about standard and custom workflows. What is the difference between these two and when do we decide to choose custom workflow. Also, Do SAP provide workflows for each standard business object. im expecting few PM and QM module related workflow development in next few months and hoping to have some more useful comments.

Thank you

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Former Member
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Hello,

You can view standard Workflows delivered by SAP for example in WF builder SWDD.

Hit 'Input Help' and select 'Structure Search' to check WFs for each modules.

Regards,

Artur

gaurang_gujar
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Hi ,

I have a good link to standard workflow provided by SAP.

SAP Library - SAP Business Workflow

Regards,

Gaurang

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Standard workflow = Standard workflow template in the system. It might be "active" (=when you do some action in for the business process, the workflow starts), or you might need to "activate" it (activate event linkage or whatever) to make it work.

Custom workflow = You develop it from the scratch, or you copy an existing standard workflow template, and do the necessary modifications to it. You simply need to make a custom workflow, if the existing standard templates do not meet your requirements (which is many times the case).

> Also, Do SAP provide workflows for each standard business object.

No. SAP provides standard template(s) for many of its business PROCESSES but not all. The standard templates use the standard business objects (or ABAP classes) to implement the required functionality (=coding). In best case, you can find a business object and a standard template, and use those. In some cases you can find a business object, but there is no suitable workflow template for your requirement, and you need to develop it, but at least you have the business object (which you might need to enhance). In some cases you have nothing - you need to develop everything from scratch.

>im expecting few PM and QM module related workflow development in next few months and hoping to have some more useful comments.

There are some business objects and standard templates in these areas, but it is difficult to give you more detailed answers (other than giving links to QM & PM related SAP help). You should gather more information about what you need to do.

Regards,

Karri

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Thanks to all for your valuable comments and extremely sorry for delay in my comments. im checking on it and will get back to you in case any further query. please provide more inputs.

Rgds

Jocelyn_Dart
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Hi, There's a much easier way to find existing standard and custom workflows in your system.  Use the workflow explorer transaction SWDM.  The easiest approach is to set the search range to search by the application component you are interested in - usually the workflows are attached to 2nd level hierarchy such as MM-LIV or similar. 

Also if you use the Extras tab in the search range window to select the local objects, this usually picks up all the custom workflows in your development system.

Once you find the WS code for the workflow, you can often find further information on it in the SAP Library Help

Enjoy!