Version Management in workflow..

[Former Member]

Hi ,

How to do Version Management in workflow ?

I am working on an issue of workflow where there is difference in the workflow version and the FM  in Rule Definition in Quality and development.

Kindly tell me the method to do the version management for the Workflow so that I can make Quality and Development in sync.

Thanks,

Mrinal Pradhan

[I042439]

Hi Mrinal

The Version Management in WF does not works like that of ABAP code, say a function module.

When you create a new workflow in DEV system, it gets created with a version 0000. When you change in DEV, it overwrites the same version (unless, development system has a separate client for testing and there is a running instance).

How system determines a version - if an instance of workflow is running during activation, it creates a new version, (so that already running instances can still use the old version in which they were started); Any new workflow started after the activation would run with the latest version.

When you transport to QA or PRD, same check happens.

So if you change a workflow in DEV, activation may not result in version increment as there may not be a running instance in DEV. But when you transport to QA, the version may or may not increment based on a running instance at the time of import. Same applies for PRD.

Hence, the workflow version number may not be same in DEV, QA and PRD even though it's the same logical version.

To summarize, you have to manually check for differences in the workflow definition.

Regards,

Modak