fork in workflows

[Former Member]

when do we use fork (step activity) in workflows?

[christine_evans · Accepted solution]

When we want to implement two different outcomes dependant upon a condition.

[former_member705122]

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8d/25f1e7454311d189430000e829fbbd/content.htm

[Former Member]

hii

when you want to send a mail to more then one person parallely,that time we can use fork ..so at a time mail can be sent to different level person.

regards

twinkal

[Former Member]

Hi aakash,

Forks

Use

You use a fork in a workflow definition when the business process can be continued by several users at the same time. You can also configure the fork in such a manner that not all branches have to be processed.

In the workflow definition, the start of a fork is shown with the symbol and the end with .

Integration

In addition to this explicitly-modeled parallelism, there is also table-driven, dynamic parallel processing and the work queue. For more information, see Implementation Options for Parallel Processing.

Features

You can create any number of branches in a fork. All branches of the fork flow into a join operator (). When one branch of a fork reaches this join operator at runtime, the end conditions are checked.

The system checks whether the number of branches processed agrees with the number of branches required as specified in the definition. The system then checks whether a condition produces the result true.

If one of the end conditions is fulfilled, any existing work items of the fork are set to status logically deleted, and the workflow is continued after the join operator.

The individual branches of a fork should be functionally independent.

Activities

To define a fork, you specify the number of parallel branches required with the step name. The fork, consisting of the start operator, the branches each with an undefined step and the join operator, is inserted into the workflow definition.

If you set the indicator Not in Workflow Log, the fork and all the steps it contains, will not be shown in the Workflow log.

To define the termination of the fork, you enter the number of branches required and the condition. For more information about conditions, see the Condition Editor.

If you make no entry for the number of branches required, the system takes the number of branches.

You can transfer an existing modeled block into a fork as a new branch as follows:

· Copy or cut the block.

· Select and choose Paste block in the context menu.

thanks

karthik

[Former Member]

AS per SAP,

You use a fork in a workflow definition when the business process can be continued by several users at the same time. You can also configure the fork in such a manner that not all branches have to be processed.

thanks,

Krishna