SAP® Business Workflow

SWITCH in multiple condition

By Suresh Kumar Parvathaneni

SAP® has introduced new features in Business Workflow in the releases 6.20, NW04 and NW04s.

This Tutorial introduces you to a new feature SWITCH provided in the step “Multiple Condition” of SAP® Workflow. It is assumed that the reader of this Tutorial has already some knowledge in Business Workflow and has worked on “Multiple Condition” step earlier. 

In SWITCH, each branch of it carries a condition definition. We can visualize “Multiple Condition” with SWITCH as a group of “Condition” steps.  

Small scenario using “Multiple Condition” with SWITCH is shown below:

Create a new workflow definition with a container element “CARRID” (Well known example for training purposes).

Set the “Properties” as import.

Double click on the undefined step to create a step “Multiple Condition”. Following screen appears:   

Select the “Switch” option in the Type field.

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