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Passing data from an ABAP program to a Workflow container

How can I pass data from an ABAP program to the workflow container? I have been attempting to use the set parameter id command with no success.

Alon Raskin

Published: 08 Jul 2002

How can I pass data from an ABAP program to the workflow container? I have been attempting to use the set parameter...

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id command with no success.

There is a macro swc_set_element defined in include <cntn01> which will allow you to write to a container.

The syntax is as follows:
swc_set_element my_container 'ElementName' ElementValue.

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