Online Course
Classic Workflows for SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA with SAP Business Workflow
with Dr. Kerem Koseoglu
09/14/2026 – 10/12/2026
The course in detail:
If you’re an ABAP developer working in an on-premise SAP environment, chances are classic SAP Business Workflow is still part of your stack. Make sure you have the skills to excel in your day-to-day workflow responsibilities! This five-day course trains you for every stage of classic workflow development. You’ll start with general concepts, an overview of your tools (including the workflow builder, Transaction SWDD), and system configuration. Then move on to custom workflow design and development, advanced features like agent determination and decision tasks, programmatic extension via ABAP APIs, custom report development, and SAP Fiori approval setup. Conclude the course by improving your administrative skills and learning to monitor and troubleshoot workflows in production.
What you'll learn:
- Configure an SAP system for workflow development
- Design and build a complete custom approval workflow from specification to working implementation
- Implement advanced agent determination methods, custom decision tasks, and step features
- Extend and manipulate workflows programmatically using ABAP APIs
- Develop custom reports
- Enable SAP Fiori-based approval
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and administer workflows
🕒 The lessons start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 2:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this SAP Business Workflow course suitable for?
- ABAP developers working in on-premise SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA environments
- SAP Fiori developers involved in workflow-related approval scenarios
- Workflow administrators responsible for monitoring and maintaining SAP Business Workflow
- Technical consultants and project team members building or extending classic workflows
Prerequisite: Attendees should have prior knowledge of ABAP programming and a working understanding of object-oriented ABAP concepts. The following topics are out of scope: Flexible workflows for SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP-based workflows (SAP Build Process Automation), and workflows for public cloud SAP S/4HANA environments. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These classic workflow topics will be covered in this course:
- Classic workflow concepts: containers, tasks, methods, event linkage, binding, and agents
- Classic workflow development tools
- System configuration and verification
- Custom approval workflow development
- Agent determination
- Advanced step features
- Workflow extension with ABAP APIs
- Custom reporting
- SAP Fiori approval configuration
- Production administration
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Lessons
Overview and Setup
Get a thorough grounding in SAP Business Workflow! Learn how the classic engine works, see which tools you’ll use to build and monitor workflows, and find out how to configure your SAP system so it’s ready for classic workflow development.
Topics:
- Workflow concepts: containers, tasks, methods, event linkage, binding, and agents
- Development tools overview: Transaction SWDD flow design, task and step definition, and ABAP method development
- System setup with automatic customizing (SWUD), basic configuration, and verification
- Monitoring transaction codes and tables
Developing Custom Classic Workflows
Follow a realistic approval scenario from business requirement to functional workflow. Plan the design, implement each stage—starting the workflow, looping through approvers, collecting and evaluating decisions, and finishing the workflow—and see how the completed classic workflow handles both approval and rejection paths.
Topics:
- Scenario definition: workflow, task, method, and agent plans
- Implementation: starting the workflow, looping through approvers, and collecting and evaluating decisions
- Testing approval and rejection scenarios
- Using monitoring tools
Advanced Classic Workflow Features
Learn to tackle the advanced requirements that appear in virtually every real-world workflow project: flexible agent determination, custom decision tasks, step features, and more!
Topics:
- Agent determination: users, superior of initiator, roles, HR elements, rules, and expressions
- Custom decision tasks: implementation, description changes, and container element usage
- Step features: duration limits, deadline jobs, attachments, and secondary methods
- Additional step types: activity, condition, container operation, and fork
Extending Classic Workflows
Go beyond the workflow builder! Use ABAP APIs to programmatically execute steps, cancel workflows, and manipulate agents. Build custom reports and configure the SAP Fiori gateway to enable web-based approval and rejection.
Topics:
- Workflow manipulation with ABAP: step execution, workflow cancellation, and agent manipulation
- Custom reporting: workflow and task concepts, significant tables, agent determination, and reporting tips
- SAP Fiori approval: backend configuration, launchpad configuration, and authorization
Administration
Close out the series with the skills needed to keep workflows running in production: monitor events, workflows, and deadlines; restart or cancel stuck processes; manage agents, authorizations, and inbox substitution; schedule e-mail jobs; and diagnose the most common workflow issues.
Topics:
- Workflow management: buffer sync; monitoring events, workflows, and deadlines; restarting, completing, and cancelling
- Agent management: authorization, inbox manipulation, and substitution
- E-mail notifications: RSWUWFML2, custom e-mail with task links, and delayed items
- Common issues: workflow doesn’t start, event problems, and work items sent to everyone
Ticket Options
Early bird pricing valid until June 29, 2026
Your Experts
Dr. Kerem Koseoglu is a freelance SAP software architect who specializes in ABAP programming. He regularly teaches professional training courses for ABAP developers. He has participated in global software development projects in a variety of roles, including lead architect, team lead, developer, technical advisor, instructor, and project manager. He is the author of Design Patterns in ABAP Objects (SAP PRESS), SQL: The Practical Guide (Rheinwerk Publishing), and several books and articles for technical magazines in Turkey. He has a Ph.D. in organizational behavior.
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