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SAP Cloud Workflow meets SAP Cloud Integration – An end to end scenario

Inspired by the blogs written by Christian Loos and Fabian Lehmann, thought I will give the SAP Cloud Workflows a try.

Please find these blogs here.

Blog by Christian.

Blog by Fabian.

In this blog, I would like to share my experience of implementing a SAP Cloud based solution for the following scenario.

  • An external system sends a Sales Order to one of the iFlows running on our SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SCPI).
  • SCPI transforms the message into my On-Premise SAP ERP System and if all is well and posts the message to SAP ERP.
  • If there is any error transforming the message, SCPI triggers the exception handling, which will trigger a SAP Cloud Workflow.
  • This workflow will then send a Human Task to one of the Reviewers.
  • The Reviewer, logs into Cloud Fiori Launch Pad, opens his Task, to view the details.
  • He can either tell the workflow to cancel this request (end of workflow) or
  • tell the Workflow to Reprocess the request.

 

As we can see, in this scenario everything is done on Cloud.

 

Going into the technical details:

 

SCPI Side:

There are two iFlows in this scenario.

  1. For Processing the Sales Order

My iFlow has a HTTPS sender and a Mail Receiver.

A Message Mapping and a Value Mapping to transform the Data

Exception Handling Process, which calls another iFlow to trigger the SAP Cloud Workflow via HTTP Request Reply

 

2. To trigger a SAP Cloud Workflow

This iFlow has a HTTPS sender and a HTTP Receiver (Cloud Workflow System)

It first fetches the X-CSRF Token using a Request Reply

Then it Prepares the Body / Payload required by my Cloud Workflow

Then it has a Script to Add some cookies required by Workflow and finally

Does an HTTP Post to Cloud Workflow.

 

SAP Cloud Workflow side:

Create a new Workflow, Add a Human Task Step and other required artefacts.

 

 

From the UI Side:

I have created a UI5 App which I reference in the human step of the workflow

After I login to my SAP Cloud Portal, I add the out of the box, SAP Provided Tiles (for monitoring the Workflow Runtime instances, Monitor Workflow Definitions and an Inbox to access the Tasks).

 

Finally I can complete the workflow tasks via My Inbox

 

 

I hope this blog helps you to understand how system and human centric integration can be combined to ensure businesses are able to operate in Real-time.

 

Regards,

Srinivas Sistu

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      Author's profile photo Christian Loos
      Christian Loos

      Hi Srinivas,

      Always good to see contributions from the community, and a good use case for workflow!

      Thanks for sharing,

      Christian