RFx Parallel approval workflow

Dear Experts,
I'm looking for sample code on how to implement the BADI agent determination with multiple areas for header (decision type 1) for RFx (BUS2200).
I made all the required settings for parallel approval, but it for SC. The BAdI implementation for parallel approval /SAPSRM/BD_WF_SC_RR_PA works only with SC and Decision Type must be 4 — Item-Based Decision for Partial Document.
Thanks,
Evgenii.

Hi,
The following settings in SharePoint designer for your reference:
More informaiton is here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2cd81250-1124-4d61-b78d-78e747f7fd64/parallel-approval-workflow-where-one-approval-completes-the-workflow?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
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Dennis Guo
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Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
The following settings in SharePoint designer for your reference:
More informaiton is here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2cd81250-1124-4d61-b78d-78e747f7fd64/parallel-approval-workflow-where-one-approval-completes-the-workflow?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
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Container element for Count in Parallel Approval Workflow

Hi Gurus,
We are using ECC 6.0 and I have this below requirement. Please share your thoughts on how we can achieve this.
We are using a User decision step in parallel workflow to generate and send individual work items to multiple approvers. that is, we generate multiple work items and send to individual approvers for the same step in the workflow and get the combined result (Approve or Reject) to proceed further. I understand that individual result for each work item is stored in container element '_RESULT' (0001 for Approve, 0002 for Reject) and combined result of all the sub-work items is stored in '_WI_RESULT' (0001 for Approve, 0002 for Reject). Also, we can see the index # of work items generated for the same step (node) from container element ''_WF_PARFOREACH_INDEX'.
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Please let me know if you need any clarification on my requirement and share your thoughts on how I can achieve easily.
Appreciate and thank you in advance for your help.
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Venu

Hi Karri,
Thank you for your reply. I was actually doing the same with having an APR_COUNT and passing that for each of individual work items and bind it back to task--> wflow container. And keep checking this counter in wf container.
Once, we obtain certain # of approvals, then I guess I'll have to complete or cancel the other work items.
I was thinking may be there is some container element already exists that keep track of this, I guess not .
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Venu

Dynamic parallel approval workflow

Hi all,
I want to design a workflow where I have to send mails to different approvers. Here,the case with me is the approvers are selected dynamically & No. of approvers are also selected dynamically (at run time).
I would like to know whether its physible or not. IF yes, any solution towards this will be helpful.
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I think the Actual_Agent container element gets populated only when someone completes the workitem. In your case you need to send the mail to the approver by using the same agent assignment you have used in that activity step. I hope you understand. If you use rule then ue rule in the deadline agent assignment also. You can also create a container element that populates the approvers in a task that is executed before nd use it in the deadline portion.
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I'm starting to read up and learn about approval workflows in Designer 2010. I am confused by the fields "Due Date for all Tasks" and the "Duration per task". I understand that the Due date for all Tasks is the date that all
of the tasks in the workflow must be completed by. And I understand that the duration means each task has x number of days to complete.
But I dont know whey we need them both. If I have the task duration set to two days and there are 3 tasks involved, then wouldn't the due date be 6 days from the start? Why would I have a due date for all tasks that is completely different than
the sum of the duration of days for each task?
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Hi Michelle,
Due date for all tasks, this setting specifies the date by which all tasks are due. It’s used for serial and parallel
task.
Duration per tasks, this setting specifies the date by which an individual
task is due, it’s used for serial workflow participants.
Note, when you create an approval workflow, select task process participants(approvers oob approval workflow), we can also
select once at a time(serial) or all at once(parallel).
For more information, see
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/use-an-approval-workflow-HA101793831.aspx
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Hi,
In SRM 5.0 workflow WS14000133- n level approval of SC at header level, Is there a feature by which we can have parallel approval, but ensure that SC goes to next level only when all the parallel approvers have approved the cart?
Currently in our system, the cart is pushed to next level even if one approver approves it and the work item is removed from the inbox of all other approvers.
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Hi Srivatsan,
As far as I know it is not possible. But why would you want this? If you want paralel approval, wouldn't it be better to go for item level approval, so the items are approved by the person responsible.
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　 I can realize parallel approval for SC as following.
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The work item is sent to A1 and B1, after A1 approved , A2 would receive the work item.   after B1 approved, B2 would receive the work item.
Only after both A2 and B2 approved. the process end or enter next level.
any experts can give me some suggestion?
thanks in advance
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Hi Jesse,
Even our clients in my earlier project, asked for a similar workflow. But SRM workflow wont support that because there are few scenarios which makes things complex. For example, when we have a combination of type 1 and type 3 approvals in a single flow, a part of the document reaches type 1 approver and a part doesn't. And also if a cart items are distinguished into one set in approval level 1, and they can be in different sets in next level even if all approval levels are of type 3 or type 4.
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i want to send an activity to multiple approvers at same level for approval. these approvers i will get at run time.
i have given multiline element in mislanious tab of that activity.
it is working fine and activity is going to all approvers.
but now in parallel approval i did not find how to know which approver had aproved and rejected it.
as i have to run the WF for next level if any one of them reject it.
is there any way to get the information of parallel process without defining different variable for each parallel approval process.
as we get no of parallel process at run time we cannot do it.
so if you can help me out for this problem i will be very thankful to you.
please reply soon its a bit urgent.

Create a fork with 2 parallel branch and 1 necessary branch. Now in 1 branch you put a wait for Event step and in the other you put the parallel approval task. When the user is using the Reject fnality you need to raise the event that you have put in the wait for event step. Regarding the WI_ACTUAL_AGENT Container element you need to bind this value from Task to Workflow in order to know which user has executed this workitem. I think if you have confusion try to make use of parallel subworkflow instead of parallel task.
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The problem is that as I see it, standard SAP only allows approval on header level for Purchase Orders.
Is there a way to handle approval on item-level if for example the PO has 2 rows, we change the cost center on both these rows to different ones???
Based on this cost center, the approval should then go to the cost center responsible and then his boss and so on based on the org-structure.

Hi,
Consider a example , you have a PO and this PO has three items IT1, IT2, IT3. Based on the cost center, you want to send the respective item for approval to the respcetive KOSTL manager .
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Thanks Anuj. But I believe, the container element that I add in the miscellaneous tab does not necessarily have to be used in the agent assignment. The multiline container is just to instantiate the workitem 'n' number of times. Correct me if I am wrong.
My concern is that I was unable to use this approval task (TS17900101) in the workflow wizard for dynamic paralle/parallel approval.
Arghadip - Thanks for your suggestion. I have seen some your nice contributions in the WF forum.
I actually tried using the 'Blocks'. But this is what I ran into. When I send multiple approval requests (say 3), if one person has approved it and the second has rejected it,I need to take out the workitem from the third person's list (because it has been rejected by someone in the group). I am not sure if this is possible using Blocks. And in my case the third person is still having the workitem, but gets a dump/error when he tries to open it.
Also, if any one has rejected the request, I do not have to wait for the rest to take any action on the workitem and proceed further. But I guess in 'Blocks' it will not let you go out unless every workitem has been processed.
To summarize,here's what I need - I need to come out of the block for two conditions. One, if everyone has approved, comeout of the block with an apprval flag. Two, if anyone has rejected (even if some have not processed their workitem), delete the workitems from others inbox and come out of the block with a rejection flag.
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Hi Mike,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to use workflow to send emails to the approvers when a task process completed in SharePoint Designer 2010.
First, when you add the “Start Approval Process” action to create the workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010, you can click on “these users” to set the task process participants and you can choose “One at
a time (serial)” or “All at once (parallel)” to set how the tasks will
be created.
Then, if you want to send an email to the approver when a single task process completed, you can click on “Approval” in the
“Start Approval Process” step to edit the task process and click on “Change the behavior of a single task” in the “Customization”
to add the “Send a Task Notification Email” action in “When a Task Completes” section as below:
And if you want to send emails to the all approvers when all tasks are completed, you can click on “Approval” in
the “Start Approval Process” step to edit the task process and click on “Change the behavior of the overall task process” in
the “Customization” to add the “Send an Email” action in “When the Task Process Completes” section as below:
If you want to use the approval workflow to update the content approval status, then you can add the “Set Workflow Variable” action to set “Variable: EnableContentApproval” to “Yes” after you add the “Start
Approval Process” action in the workflow, and it should be added above the step “Start Approval Process”.
Please refer to the link below to add the “Set Workflow Variable” step in the workflow:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/b5bebacf-4bb9-4e43-84d7-6eb2714f071d/is-there-an-option-to-set-content-approval-status-according-to-approval-process-workflow?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
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