Opening UI Maps Before Entering A State

You can define a UI Map to capture additional elements before a business entity can enter a given state. You do this by configuring the State Transition UI Map state-specific option on the appropriate state on the business object.

There may be circumstances in which the status pre-processing logic can determine the value of the elements, in which case it is not necessary to invoke the map. The system provides a data area (F1-StateTransitionCommon) which contains a boolean element to indicate if the state transition map can be skipped. This data area can be included in your pre-processing script to allow the element to be set according to your business logic. The base maintenance script (F1-MainProc) references this element to determine whether to open the state transition map.