Alternative to “discover” Workflow executions coming from FIORI MyInbox and SBWP

In this Blog i’m gonna show you a alternative to a “common” question among the community: How do i know if a Workflow was executed coming from FIORI MyInbox or SBWP?

Well, there are a few ways to do that… This is one of them, a “coding” approach.

So let’s get to it!

I’ve created a simple Workflow that looks like this:

As you can see, a simples decision task, following by a condition check and 2 message actions.

On the decision task, just a simple decision:

Created a variable called GV_FIORI on the Workflow Container, it will receive a X when executed from FIORI.

So here, i’m checking if there is a X to it, it’s from FIORI, if not it was SBWP.

The FIORI Send mail action:

The SBWP Send mail action:

Our Workflow is all set!

Now, to be able to “know” if a Workflow came from FIORI, we have to implement the /IWWRK/BADI_WF_BEFORE_UPD_IB BADI. This BADI get’s executed only when it comes from a FIORI Call, so inside of it we’ll place our code to deliver a X on the GV_FIORI container variable of the Workflow process. So now the WF instance can be aware where it came from…

So i’ve created a implementation

Placed my Workflow ID and step ID on the filter:

So now let’s implement the method:

Place the code below on it:

method /iwwrk/if_wf_wi_before_upd_ib~before_update.

  data: lt_cont type table of swr_cont,

        ls_root type swwwihead,

        ls_cont type swr_cont.

  "Get the parent Workitem...

  call function 'SWI_GET_ROOT_WORKITEM'

    exporting

      wi_id                   = is_wi_details-wi_id

    importing

      root_item               = ls_root

    exceptions

      workitem_does_not_exist = 1

      others                  = 2.

  if sy-subrc <> 0.

    "Place the error message on the CT_RETURN...

    exit.

  else.

    "Write data to the variable

    ls_cont-element = 'GV_FIORI'.

    ls_cont-value   = 'X'.

    append ls_cont to lt_cont.

    "Write variable back to the Container...

    call function 'SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER'

      exporting

        workitem_id      = ls_root-wi_id

      tables

        simple_container = lt_cont.

  endif.

endmethod.

So now we’re all set! Start a few Workflows, and execute from SBWP and MyInbox app, you’ll see the below results: