Approval Task for role assignment

[Former Member]

Hello again,

is there any manual for approval tasks with the SAP Provisioning Framework? There is a task group called Request new business role, but if I use this, the approver approves the request, but the status of the role assignment is "in process"and never changed to "OK".

I only found these manuals:

- How To... Create Approval Tasks in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management

- Implementing role approvals

But both documents didn't show an end-to-end role-request-and-approval workflow.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Peter,

the end-to-end role-request-and-approval workflow is shown in the following podcast:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/903616bb-7619-2d10-609e-debb038f2125&overrid...

Regards,

Christoph Reckers

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your help. My approval tasks works fine now.

[former_member373435]

Thanks all - my workflow is all set and running now

[former_member2987]

Peter,

I've not seen such a document. I think the whole NW IDM community would love to see one!

You just have to look through them to see what you can find.

Please do let us know if you should be successful.

Thanks,

Matt

[Former Member]

Hello Matt, hello Peter,

the web-enabled task "Request New Business Role" and the including approval task are only examples.

To create own approval processes for your projects you have to understand how approval tasks and pending values work.

The following document shows the basics of PVOs (pending value objects).

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0d6b459-3456-2b10-209e-9e78ec9fd...

This is documentation of the release 7.0, which is not updated to 7.1. But basics of PVOs are still the same.

There is also a document which describes approval task for Release 7.1:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/20b67ad5-c69a-2c10-9da2-9721b1cf7...

Also a "How-To Guide" is available:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/904deabf-73b9-2c10-e8bb-8514dc375...

I think this is enough to learn to create workflows in SAP IdM.

There is also a nice book available with detailed information:

EN: http://www.sap-press.com/products/Understanding-SAP-NetWeaver-Identity-Management-.html

DE: http://www.sap-press.de/2007

I think this will help you.

Best regrads,

Christoph Reckers

[former_member2987]

Christoph,

Looks like good stuff, however I was referring more to a manual about the provisioning framework itself

Regards,

Matt

[Former Member]

Hello Matt,

there is no document which describe the decision-trees of the SAP Provisioning Framework and the self-acting processes of SAP IdM. This would be nice.

There is the detailed documentation of the identity store schema which show a lot:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0d87115-36da-2b10-7b89-996efe422...

But from my point of view, there are no "Approval Task for role assignment" in the SAP Provisioning Framework.

The mentioned task "Request new Business Role" is a is a web-enabled task which assign a role (or start a workflow) and start an approval for some master-data of a person entry and provision the master data to an ABAP-System. An example!

I do not know approval workflows, with their including "Approval Task for role assignment", in the the SAP Provisioning Framework. You have to create your own approval workflows (MX_ADD_MEMBER_TASKs). Examples are in chapter 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of the document "How To... Create Approval Tasks in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1":

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/904deabf-73b9-2c10-e8bb-8514dc375...

Best regards,

Christoph Reckers

[Former Member]

Hi Peter,

please have a look at the table mxp_provision.

Are there any entries? If so, it seems that not all necessary jobs are enabled.

Kind regards,

Achim