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SWITCH in multiple conditionSAP has introduced new features in Business Workflow in the releases 6.20, NW04 and NW04s.

This Tutorial introduces you to a new feature SWITCH provided in the step Multiple Condition of SAP Workflow. It is assumed that the reader of this Tutorial has already some knowledge in Business Workflow and has worked on Multiple Condition step earlier.

The SWITCH feature in the step Multiple Condition is provided from the release NW04. The only feature available before NW04 with this step is CASE. In the case of CASE, the workflow system checks the value of the basis of comparison against the defined comparison values (as shown below).

In SWITCH, each branch of it carries a condition definition. We can visualize Multiple Condition with SWITCH as a group of Condition steps.

Small scenario using Multiple Condition with SWITCH is shown below:

Create a new workflow definition with a container element CARRID (Well known example for training purposes).

Set the Properties as import. Double click on the undefined step to create a step Multiple Condition. Following screen appears: Select the Switch option in the Type field.

Different types of conditions can be defined for each Outcome. Please note that: The conditions are defined in the given order.

The first branch whose condition is evaluated TRUE is considered.

If none of the condition is TRUE, a default branch is taken (Other values in the definition). Following are the conditions used in our example: The workflow definition would appear as follows:

Insert an email step for each branch and check the output for various Carrid values.