SAP ABAP Data Element POC_SIMULATION_BO_ID (Symbolic Business Object ID for Simulation)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_BS_FND (Software Component) SAP Business Suite Foundation
   ⤷ CA-EPT-POC (Application Component) Process Orchestration for Built-In Processes
     ⤷ BS_POC_TEST (Package) Process Orchestration - Test Reports
Basic Data
Data Element POC_SIMULATION_BO_ID
Short Description Symbolic Business Object ID for Simulation  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CHAR8    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 8    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 8    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 BO ID 
Medium 15 Sim. BO ID 
Long 20 Sim. BO ID 
Heading 10 Sim. BO ID 
Documentation

Definition

Assigned to an instance of a business object during one process simulation run.

Use

During runtime of a process simulation, a symbolic business object ID is mapped to the exisitng ID of a business object. Generally, this symbolic ID is the concatenation of the date and time of the process simulation run, the business object type, and the existing ID of the business object.

You need symbolic business object IDs in to allow activities to refer to previous business objects within a process simulation. This is only possible with a symbolic business object ID.

Dependencies

The symbolic ID is unique to a given business object type and can only be used within a given process simulation.

Example

Symbolic business object ID "1" will be mapped to the process simulation 20110216141016.6196830_73_1 during runtime.

  • 20110216141016.6196830 - timestamp of the start of the simulation
  • 73 - business object type (in this example, outbound delivery)
  • 1 - symbolic business object ID

Note

When the simulation is re-run, the actual symbolic business object ID may be 20110216141153.9812340_73_1, which reflects that the process simulation started at a later time. However, 73_1 is constant, which means the business object type and symbolic ID are easily recognizable.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20110908 
SAP Release Created in 731