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Technical Integration of Business Workflows in Process Visibility – Overview
I recently added a Business Workflow for a Demo and a training in a Process Visibility Scenario for Workflow Monitoring purposes. In the demo I used a S/4HANA OP System. In this blog I will illustrate the technical Integration and what needs to be done to get a preconfigured Live Process Dashboard also for Business Workflows.
Thanks a lot, to our teams and colleagues helping to configure the integration and realize the demo!
Availability of the integration for SAP ERP, S/4 HANA (Cloud and OP)
The following steps need to be processed.
1. Activate services, run setup, get users and authorizations in your subaccount and S/4HANA System
BTP Cockpit Trial Account
2. Setup a Cloud Connector between the subaccount and the S/4HANA systems
Cloud Connector Administration
Service Keys Process Visibility
3. Get the service keys and endpoints from Process Visibility Capability
4.Export & Import certificates from Process Visibility Capability in
SAP S/4HANA
For Export use URL: https://bpmpvruntime.cfapps.sap.hana.ondemand.com/pv-service/rest/health;
Right Click on Lock in Google Chrome and go to Certificate.
Export Certficate for PV
5. Import in S/4HANA with Transaction: STRUST
6. Create and configure integration in
SAP S/4HANA Implementation Guide
Path: SAP Netweaver – Application Server – Business Management – SAP Busines Technology Platform Integration*
* Check for new path name ABAP Platform from S/4HANA 2021 onwards
Configuration in SIMG
7. Maintain the destination to
SAP S/4HANA system in SAP BTP and add additional Properties (use the user from step 5)
Destination Configuration in BTP
8. Create a process visibility scenario and add your SAP Business Workflow as process participant to achieve end-to-end process visibility.
Discover business workflow definitions to get the relevant process steps, events and context information
Visibility Scenario Configuration
9. Activate your scenario.
Activate Visibility Scenario
10. Start a process
Create Absence Form in S/4 (Demo Scenario)
11. Monitor the Scenario
12. Check your Workflow Dashboard in the Process Workspace of your Workflow Management Launchpad
Process Dashboard
Absence Instance
This is an overview with a demo scenario to test the technical integration. I will probably come up with details for some of the steps. Any questions? Let me know!
Hi Sebastian,
Great blog.
The S4HANA Workflow ID WS30000015 appeared in steps 8 is Sap standard workflow template or it is newly created flexible workflow templates by SWDD_Scenario which contains extension step? Thank you.
Hi Frank, WS30000015 is the standard workflow template used for training and test purposes and is not a flexible workflow. But you could also add one with extension step and in addition the extension workflow and correlate them into one process visibility dashboard.