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New activity nodes that are exported to SAP Solution Manager are appended to the end of existing SAP steps
Symptoms
When a business process definition (BPD) snapshot is exported from IBM Process Designer to SAP Solution Manager, the exported new activity nodes are appended to the end of the existing SAP steps in the structure list, instead of ordering them by following the connection path in the BPD. The following examples describe this behavior in clearer terms.
- Example 1
- If activity nodes in a BPD are created in the order A-B-C and are connected from last to first as C-B-A, when exported to SAP Solution Manager, the nodes are ordered as A-B-C.
- Example 2
- Insert a new activity node between nodes B and C of the BPD, and connect it as B2, for example. When you export the BPD to SAP Solution Manager, the activity B2 is shown at the end of the list, as A-B-C-B2.
Causes
The SAP blueprint project in SAP Solution Manager does not support a complex flow logic that is represented by connections, gateways, and events in the BPD. Also, the Enterprise Services of SAP Solution Manager do not provide an API for updating edges in SAP processes. Consequently, the connectivity information that defines the activity sequence in the BPD is ignored during the snapshot export to SAP Solution Manager. The following actions occur:
- The order of exported activities is not changed in SAP Solution Manager, even though the precedence relationships are changed in the corresponding BPD.
- When new activities that are added to the BPD are exported to SAP Solution Manager, they are appended at the end of the SAP activity list in SAP Solution Manager.
Resolving the problem
To change the step order in the business blueprint transaction of SAP Solution Manager, you can move an SAP step up or down on the Structure tab. To update the flow logic in the SAP process, you can add or remove edges on the Graphic tab.