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Customizing Business Process
Flows
Applies to:
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0 MS. For more information, visit the Enterprise Performance
Management homepage
Summary
In SAP BPC, we have Business Process Flows (BPFs), which are used to pre-package and sequence
application tasks for different departments within the organization. Any of the available features within BPC
Web, BPC for Office, and BPC Administration can be utilized by a business process flow.
This document describes how to enhance the look & feel of the BPFs by providing a graphical view to the
status of the BPFs.

Author: Nilanjan Chatterjee
Company: Mahindra Satyam
Created on: 2 May 2010
Author Bio
Nilanjan Chatterjee is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Mahindra Satyam. Nilanjan has almost 3 years of
experience on Business Process and Simulation (BPS) and Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
Customizing Business Process Flows
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Table of Contents
Enhancing Business Process Flows ................................................................................................................... 3
Pre-Requisites ................................................................................................................................................. 4
System Design ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Related Contents ................................................................................................................................................ 8
Appendix ............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Copyright ........................................................................................................................................................... 15

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Enhancing Business Process Flows
In SAP BPC, we have Business Process Flows (BPFs), which are used to pre-package and sequence
application tasks for different departments within the organization. Any of the available features within BPC
Web, BPC for Office, and BPC Administration can be utilized by a business process flow.
This document describes how to enhance the look & feel of the BPFs by providing a graphical view to the
status of the BPFs. However, this doesnt involve any kind of enhancements in the BPF as such. Instead,
this guide helps you to have a graphical representation of the status of different BPFs in your Application Set.
Usually, when a user runs a particular BPF, it prompts the user for Entity, Category, and Time dimension
members. Once provided, the BPF opens a screen with the different steps involved and the user proceeds
by executing each of these steps in a sequential manner. A general BPF will look something like below.

As a consultant, if we can provide something extra on top of this and make it look something like below.

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The left half of the above figure shows the list of all the steps involved in this particular BPF. The right half
shows the status of this BPF executed on various data regions (combination of Entity, Category, and Time).
Pre-Requisites
To achieve the target of having the BPF in the above manner, we first need to have few files with us.
1. Image for GREEN signal (can be found in the BPC server - BPC:\Websrvr\Web\Images\green-
check2.gif)
2. Image for YELLOW signal (BPC:\Websrvr\Web\Images\warnicon_small.gif)
3. Image for the RED signal (BPC:\Websrvr\Web\Images\cancel-red.gif)
4. ASPX file to display the status, as above figure. Name this file as BPFStatusReport.ASPX
Copy the first 3 image files from the specified paths to BPC:\Websrvr\Web in the BPC server.
Create an ASPX file as described in the Appendix section.

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System Design
Go to BPC Web -> Content Library -> Add a New Web Page. Give a name to the Web Page and select Side
by Side.

One page opens up with 2 sections

On the left side of the page, drag and drop BPF and keep configuring as shown below

Enter a name for the BPF
Enter the Pixel Height
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This completes the configuration of the left side of the page.
On the right side box, drag and drop Website and keep configuring as below

Enter the name of the BPF you
want to open
Give a Description
You can leave this blank
Enter a name for the BPF
Enter the Pixel Height
Enter the URL as
<servername>/osoft/BPFStatu
sReport.aspx?BPFID=<bpfid>
&AppSetID=<AppsetID>
The BPFID can be found in
BPF table in SQL
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This completes the right half of the page.
Assign the desired access to the page and save it.
Go to BPC Web -> Open a business process flow -> Select your BPF, which you formatted. You will be able
to see the BPF as below.

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Related Contents
For more information, visit the Enterprise Performance Management homepage

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Appendix
Below is the code to be maintained in the BPFStatusReport.ASPX file

<%@ import namespace="System.Data.SqlClient" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.Data" %>
<%@ import namespace="System" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.Web.UI.Page" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.Web" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.Drawing" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.XML" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>BPFReport</title>
<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1" name=GENERATOR>
<meta content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1" name=CODE_LANGUAGE>
<meta content=JavaScript name=vs_defaultClientScript>
<meta content=http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5
name=vs_targetSchema>

<style>
A:link {
COLOR: #000000; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:active {
}
A:visited {
}
A:hover {
COLOR: #3399ff; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
.notice {
COLOR: green; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}

body
{
FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
}
.maintitle {
background-color:#0264FF;
FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #FFFFFF;
}
.title {
FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #006699; FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
}
.content {
FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: #000000;
}
</style>
</HEAD>

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<body>

<%
StartUPPage
%>

<form name="PerformanceReport" id="PerformanceReport" method="post"
action="BPFReport.aspx">
<table border=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td class=title align=center>
Entity
</td>
Category
</td>
Time
</td>

<%
dim nCol as Integer
for nCol = 0 to m_arrStepName.count - 1%>
<%=cstr(nCol+1)%> . <%=replace(m_arrStepName(nCol)," ","<br>")%>
</td>
<%next%>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan=15><hr></td>
</tr>

<%
dim strkey as string
dim arrDisplay() as string
dim arrComplete as new ArrayList
for each strkey in m_hsDataList.keys
arrComplete=m_hsDataList.item(strkey)
arrDisplay=split(strkey,vbtab)
%>
<tr>
<td class=title align=center><%=arrDisplay(0)%></td>

<%
dim arrCheck() as string
dim strStatus as string
dim nBlank as Integer
dim strFirstStatus as string
dim bNotStarted as boolean
bNotStarted= false
for nCol = 0 to arrComplete.count-1

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arrCheck=split(arrComplete(nCol),vbtab)
select case arrCheck(2)
case "0"
strStatus=" "
case "1"
strStatus="<img src='check_Green.gif'>"
case "2"
strStatus="<img src='check_Red.gif'>"
case "3"
strStatus="<img src='check_Yellow.gif'>"
case else
strStatus=" "
end select
%>
<td class=content align=center><%=strStatus%></td>
<%next
nBlank = m_nColumCount-arrComplete.count
if nBlank > 0 then
dim nBlankCol as Integer
for nBlankCol = 1 to nBlank%>
<td> </td>
<%next
end if
%>
</tr>
<%next%>
</table>

</form>
<p> </p>
<table>
<tr>
<td align=center>
<img src="check_Green.gif">
</td>
<td align=center>
<img src="check_Yellow.gif">
</td>
<td align=center>
<img src="check_Red.gif">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=center>
Step Completed
</td>
<td align=center>
Step Awaiting Review
</td>
<td align=center>
Step Rejected and Awaiting Update
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</HTML>

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<script language=vb runat="server">
Public strBPFID As String
Public strCategory As String
Public strTime As String
Public strAppSetID As String
Public strUserID As String
Public m_ErrorMsg As String
Public m_arrBPFList() As String
Public m_nColumCount As Integer
Public m_arrStepName As New ArrayList
Public m_hsDataList As New Hashtable
Public m_hsTeamList As New Hashtable
Public m_strQuery as string

Enum BPFDATA
Entity
Category
Time
StepName
Complete
StepOrder
End Enum

Const DBTOOL As String =
"OSoft.Services.Application.DataMgr.Tools.QueryTools"

public sub StartUPPage()
Dim strQuery As String
Dim arrRecord() As String
Dim arrData() As String
Dim objDBTOOL As Object
Dim n As Integer
Dim strItem As String
Dim strItem1 As String
Dim strItem2 As String
Dim arrRecList As ArrayList
Dim arrRecList1 As ArrayList
Dim arrRecList2 As ArrayList
Dim strFirstKey As String
Dim arrCheck() As String
Dim strKey As String
Dim strWhere As String
Dim bStart As Boolean = False
strBPFID = Trim(CType(Request.Params("BPFID"), String))
strAppSetID = Trim(CType(Request.Params("AppSetID"), String))
strUserID = Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_USER").ToString
If Len(strAppSetID) > 0 Then
If Len(strUserID) > 0 Then
bStart = True
End If
End If

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If bStart Then
strQuery = "select "
strQuery += "ins.entity,"
strQuery += "ste.stepname,"
strQuery += "st.complete,"
strQuery += "ste.steporder,"
strQuery += "ins.category,"
strQuery += "ins.time, "
strQuery += "st.instanceid,"
strQuery += "st.bpfid,"
strQuery += "st.stepid "
strQuery += "from "
strQuery += "bpfstatus as st,"
strQuery += "bpfinstance as ins,"
strQuery += "bpfStep as ste "
strQuery += "where "
strQuery += "st.bpfid='{0}' and "
strQuery += "st.bpfid =ins.bpfid and "
strQuery += "st.instanceid =ins.instanceid and "
strQuery += "st.stepID = ste.stepID "
strQuery += "order by st.instanceid,ste.steporder"
strQuery = String.Format(strQuery, strBPFID)
m_strQuery =strQuery
objDBTOOL = CreateObject(DBTOOL)
If Not objDBTOOL Is Nothing Then
If objDBTOOL.Connect(strAppSetID) Then
If objDBTOOL.queryserver(strQuery, arrRecord) Then
For n = 1 To UBound(arrRecord)
arrData = Split(arrRecord(n), vbTab)
strItem1 = arrData(BPFDATA.Entity) & vbTab &
arrData(BPFDATA.Complete) & vbTab & arrData(BPFDATA.StepOrder)
If m_hsDataList.ContainsKey(strItem1) Then
arrRecList = m_hsDataList.Item(strItem1)
strItem = arrData(BPFDATA.Category) & vbTab &
arrData(BPFDATA.StepName) & vbTab & arrData(BPFDATA.Time)
arrRecList.Add(strItem)
m_hsDataList.Item(strItem1) = arrRecList
Else
arrRecList = New ArrayList
strItem = arrData(BPFDATA.Category) & vbTab &
arrData(BPFDATA.StepName) & vbTab & arrData(BPFDATA.Time)
arrRecList.Add(strItem)
m_hsDataList.Add(strItem1, arrRecList)
End If
Next
'need to find longest header
Dim nLongest As Integer = 0
For Each strKey In m_hsDataList.Keys
arrRecList = m_hsDataList.Item(strKey)
If nLongest < arrRecList.Count Then
nLongest = arrRecList.Count
strFirstKey = strKey
End If
Next
If Len(strFirstKey) Then
arrRecList = m_hsDataList.Item(strFirstKey)
m_nColumCount = m_hsDataList.Item(strFirstKey).count

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For n = 0 To arrRecList.Count - 1
arrCheck = Split(arrRecList(n), vbTab)
m_arrStepName.Add(arrCheck(0))
Next
End If
End If
End If
End If
Else
objDBTOOL = CreateObject(DBTOOL)
objDBTOOL.Connect(strAppSetID)
End If
strWhere = GetSecurityWhere(strAppSetID, strUserID)
If Len(strWhere) Then
strQuery = "select distinct BPFID from BPFAccess where " &
GetSecurityWhere(strAppSetID, strUserID)
If Not objDBTOOL Is Nothing Then
If objDBTOOL.queryserver(strQuery, m_arrBPFList) Then
If UBound(m_arrBPFList) < 0 Then
m_ErrorMsg = "You do not have access to any of BPF."
Else
If Len(m_arrBPFList(0)) = 0 Then
End If
End If
Else
m_ErrorMsg = "An error occurred while getting BPF List."
End If
End If
Else
End If

'select BPFID from BPFAccess where
objDBTOOL.CloseDB()
objDBTOOL = Nothing
end sub

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