Adding approver and reviewer to PO approval process

hi,
We have PO approval process. In EBP there are two buttons called Add approver and Add reviewer which are currently grayed out. How these buttons can be activated? If we go the graphical log of PO approval workflow, we can see add reviewer button in the log and reviewer can be added to workflow from graphical log screen.
Thanks and Regards,
Vithalprasad

Hi,
Can you please change the agent assignment of the PO workflow so that it is a 'general' task. Go to transaction PFTC, display 'workflow template' e.g. 14000075 (i.e. without the WS)
Go to 'Additional Data' -> 'Agent Assignment' -> 'Maintain' ->
Attributes -> Select Radio button 'General Task' -> Transfer -> Save.
Then retest.
Kind regards,
Siobhan

Similar Messages

Adding system and client specific TMS approval steps

Hello,
In defining QA approval steps, how to define a step which is not system and client wide?
When adding a new step, it is automaticaly defined with * in the client and system fields, and when changing the steps, these fields are not editable. However, there are several approval steps for which a specific system and client are entered, but this was done by a consultant, who was here some years ago.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks in advance,
A

Hi Aleksandra,
Did you ever find a solution to this issue. I too have multiple QA systems in our landscape (4 system landscape), and yet I can not defined system/client specific approval procedures in STMS.
The system and client options don't even appear when I go into change mode, yet table TMSQASTEPS has the options available. Direct table update works fine, but it would be nice to know the "SAP standard" way of doing this.
Cheers
Shaun

Add approver/add reviewer

Hi,
We have activated n STEP VALUE LIMIT WIRKFLOW.
Our requirement is dat wen we add approvers/reviewers only employess with tole of managers be available for selsction for add approvers/reviewers .
Pls advise.
Thanks,
Venky

Hello Friends,
I have found the add approver and reviewer working fine if i active standard workflow WS14000133 but the same funtionlity does not working the custom one which is copy of WS14000133.. Is there any thing do i need to active or add or what?
I have copy WS14000133 and WS14000134..
Please help me out.. I have compared both standard and custom wf templates but i could not find any differences..
Thanks,
John.

"Ask to buy" and "Sign in to Approve" process is not working

Last weekend I setup Family Sharing for the first time, but the "Ask to buy" and "Sign in to Approve" process is not working. I am the Family Organizer and I created an account for my child under 13 with "Ask to buy" enabled. My child can go in to the App Store, click "Buy" for a desired app and I get a notification on my iPhone 5s... as expected. When I open the Notification I have the option to Decline or Approve. If I select Approve, a box pops up asking me to enter the password for my child's iCloud account to complete the request. (It seems odd to me that I'd have to enter his password instead of my own, but whatever.) So I enter his password and the box goes away for a second and then comes right back like I typed it wrong or something. I enter it again and again and always the same box comes back and the request is never completed. We've tried this several times over several days and always see the same behavior. I have also tried entering my password instead of his (since that makes more sense to me) but I encounter the same problem.
I have verified that I am signed in to my iCloud account and my iTunes account on my iPhone 5s. I have also verified that my son is logged in with his iCloud/iTunes account on his iPod touch, so why isn't this working? Additionally, if I disable "Ask to Buy" then I can successfully install apps on his iPod from the iPod itself.
Is it normal for the "Sign in to Approve" box to show his iCloud address instead of mine? And if so, why doesn't it complete when I enter his password? Am I missing something completely? This is driving me crazy.

Hi ,
When you click your link "Click here", the SharePoint web page with anchor will not work until refresh the page, if it's the case, you can add the javascript code to refresh the page automatically as workaround per the following similar post.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/f7eab808-da8a-44fd-9933-f9b992f5affc/sharepoint-anchor-tags?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
http://yalla.itgroove.net/2012/05/anchor-links-tags-in-sharepoint-2010/
<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout(Reload,2000);
function Reload()
window.location.hash=self.document.location.hash.substring(1);
</script>
Thanks,
Daniel Yang
Forum Support
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact [email protected]
Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

Using WF WS14000133 and WS14500015 in same approval process

Dear WF-Experts,
we want to use the WF WS14000133 and WS14500015 in same approval process in BAdi "Determination of Approver for n-Step Dynamic Approval Workflow".
For Example:
- Shopping cart with 3 items and total value 1000,. EUR
- first approval step financial for complete shopping cart cause total value
- second approval step for item 1 and 3 cause cost center
- not seperate approval for position 2
- third and final approval step for complete shopping cart cause total value
Thank you for your support
Best regards
Heinz-Georg

For one approval process you can use only one workflow. But as you want some steps for the complete shopping cart and others on line item, use the line item approval. If you want to do the approval on "header" level just make sure all the items get the same approval object guid. That way all the items are assigned to the same approver and in that way you have a "header" approval.
I used this for a similar requirement and it works fine.
Regards,
Martin

Review Activity (RA) Approval Condition is Changing

Hello everyone,
I am running SCSM 2012 R2 version 7.5.3079.0 (no CUs). I am having an odd issue where it seems as though the approval condition is changing on review activities. I can't seem to figure out if I've done something or if there is something else
going on. This is causing some tickets to "stall" and not actually get processed or is delaying actual approvals.
So as an example, the person who originally designed the system put an Automatic Approval Review Activity at the beginning of every SR. In the template, the Approval Condition was set to Automatic and there were no reviewers. All of a sudden
a reviewer with no name would show up and the approval condition would become unanimous. I since removed that RA.
Now there is a similar issue I am finding on my Change Requests (CRs). I have only done three as we are basically doing dry runs before we convert off our old system. In my template, I have a review activity that has the six members of our
change approval board as reviewers. The members rarely change so I saw no reason to make this dynamic. The template has the stage set to Approve with an Approval Condition set for Percentage. The threshold is 66% or 4 of the 6 reviewers.
At some point, the approval condition was changed to unanimous. If I look at the history of the RA, I can see where the activity was created and it says Approval Percentage 66. The RA went from Pending to In Progress and then about a minute later,
the approval condition and percentage changed. The name on that time entry is just one of my service accounts.
If it helps...here is that process that the CR template follows
Automatic Review Activity, which has not been an issue so far.
Runbook Automation Activity - Updates some fields on the CR with information based on fields. Also modifies the reviewer in the next step to be the Business Owner of a system.
Business Owner Approval Review Activity - Template is set to unanimous and has one blank reviewer that is updated by the previous runbook.
Change Approval Board Review Activity - Explained above.
Runbook Automation Activity - Converts the Change Request to a Release Record.
I appreciate any and all assistance that someone could provide.

This is a common issue.... try restarting the following three services: Microsoft Monitoring Agent, System Center Data Access Service, System Center Management Service and deleting your health service cache (Installation Folder/Health Service State) (it
will regenerate once you restart the services)

Messages displayed in the Approval and message tab in SRM approval is same

Hi,
We are having an issue with the message displayed in the approval step.When we click on the approval option in SRM, we get two tabs displayed Approval and Messages. The content displayed in both the tab is same for one user. Generally the content displayed in approval tab is "Here you can approve/reject shopping carts, confirmations of goods receipts, and so on.Select 'Edit' to display details" and the details in Messages tab is "Here you can see e-mails on the purchase transaction." But for this particular user the content displayed is "Here you can see e-mails on the purchase transaction." in both the approval and message tab.
We checked the roles and profiles and its same as the other users. Can some one please suggest what would be the reason for this functionality with this user.
Regards
GGL

OK, so you only have this problem in PROD, all other systems (DEV, QA) are fine... I assume you checked your BAdI transports in PROD as well... If all OK, that leads me to think there's nothing wrong with your custom code or transports.
SRM 5.0 is notorious for these kinds of issues where workflow templates work in one environment, but are erroneous in another (most times this is due to inactive status). That is why I asked you to check the workflow for consistency in SWUD.
From your answer, I did not understand whether you'd checked all the subworkflows separately in SWUD (not as part of the main workflow check). If you didn't do that, find all the subworkflows (and the subworkflows of the subworkflows where applicable) in SWDD by stepping through the main workflow, and then run the SWUD check on each of them separately.
Also, please check the Review workflow WS10000265. This particular workflow may not show in SWDD as a subworkflow, but actually is part of the process. If it's broken, you may encounter issues like you're describing.
Cheers,
Serguei

Workflow - split approved and rejected items for next step

Hi! I have just started building a simple approval workflow for any price variation of the catalog items. I have a question in regards to the handling of rejection and approval of items. Say I run the workflow which does the validation and it spits out 4 items with huge price variation which requires approval by the manager (using the Approve stencil). The manager logs in, review the items and mark 3 items for approval and reject one. It seems that using this Approve function, I can only proceed to the next step if ALL of the items are approved. Is there a way to be able to release the approved items leaving the rejected one behind? This is so that we can release the approved item first (which also means to check in the items) and leave the rejected item in check-out mode.
Appreciate your comments on the above.
Thanks!
SF

Hi SF,
Yes there is a workaround for dealing with the Approved and Disapproved Records by using the Process step instead of the Approve step.
Kindly follow the Elearning session below which will explain you how to go about this:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/90efe90c-b03f-2b10-65bf-e572fef651cb
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/60f28084-b90e-2b10-3eb6-d6565367048a
You can also refer the other related links that discusses such common problems:
Re: SRM MDM catalog
Hope It Helped
Thanks & Regards
Simona Pinto

IRecruitment Vacancy Approval is not found in Approval Process Setup

hi
my ebs is 12.1.1
After Setting up AME for iRecruitment, i get problems as follows:
1: Approvals Management Business Analyst -->Business Analyst Dashboard
i find 'iRecruitment Vacancy Approval' is not found in Approval Process Setup.
2:when i click Approvals Management Administrator respsonbility. it get errors:
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.OAAdvancedTableHelper.setMetaDataProperties(OAAdvancedTableHelper.java:391)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.OAAdvancedTableHelper.createWebBean(OAAdvancedTableHelper.java:183)
please help me.
thanks.

2:when i click Approvals Management Administrator respsonbility. it get errors:
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.OAAdvancedTableHelper.setMetaDataProperties(OAAdvancedTableHelper.java:391)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.framework.webui.OAAdvancedTableHelper.createWebBean(OAAdvancedTableHelper.java:183)Can you find any details about the error in Apache log files (error_log* and access_log*)?
Please see if (Java.Lang.Indexoutofboundsexception: Index:0 Size:0 When Adding Another Skill [ID 1361546.1]) helps.
Also, make sure you have the "Approvals Management %" role added to the account you use -- After AME.B Responsibilities Give > There Are No Functions Available For This Responsibility [ID 340969.1]
Thanks,
Hussein

UWL Leave Request Approval and Page Not Found

Hello Everyone,
We are in the process of implementing leave request with EP 70 ECC 6.0 and I am trying to implement the approval portion in the UWL. The workflow is appearing correctly in the UWL; however, when I click on the request in the UWL, I get a pop up with an error message that has "Page Not Found or Not Available." Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have read some of the other messages and transaction SWFVISU has been mentioned, but I am not sure how to set this up or if this would even resolve my problem.
Also, one of the reasons I have decided to go the UWL route is because the Leave Request Approval Web Dynpro has too many steps. Our users will not like having to click Approve, then Review, then Approve Request. If set up correctly, would the UWL have this many steps? I would imagine so if it is calling the same Web Dynpro, but I thought I would ask. Ideally I would like to have our Approvers select the Leave then choose approve and that be all they do.
Please let me know what you think.
Best Regards,
Scott

Dear Scott,
I am having this problem as well.
I did 2 things to fix this problem.
Firstly, please go to SWFVISU and check the visualization parameter for the below task.
TS12300097
TS12300104
TS12300116
Make sure it is package value is sap.com/ess~lea. It is not com.sap. Then re-register your UWL and it should be workin.
Let me know if it still does not and you may need to check your WAS setting.
Rewards point if useful
Regards,
Bryan

Approval status of PR is in process, but action history show 'Approve'

Dear all,
I am on EBS 11.5.10.2 and encountered a problem during the approval process of PR.
The approval hierarchy with PR is planner -> approver1 -> approver2,
and approver2 is the final approver.
Everything of the approval process is OK except that the action performed
by approver1 shown in Action History is 'Approve', but not the appropriate
'Forword'.
Sequence Performed By Action Approval Status
0 planner Submit
1 planner Forward In Process
2 approver1 Approve In Process <---- Here the 'Approve' action should be shown as 'Forward'
3 approver2 Approve Approved
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Henry Huang
Edited by: user8960428 on 2011-7-7 上午8:13
Edited by: user8960428 on 2011-7-7 上午8:15

For requisitions the action taken by the approver is recorded. If they click on Approve, the same is recorded in action history.Shivaraj, for POs with the similar position hierarchy, if the approve1 click on Approve, action history does show 'Forward'.
Do you mean the action taken by the approver1 is different between Requisitions and POs?
Edited by: user8960428 on 2011-7-12 上午8:03

SRM: "Purchase Order Change Approval " and "Invoice Approval"

Hi,
I would like to know the availability and details of the backend services for "Purchase Order Change Approval " and "Invoice Approval".
Any pointers ?
regards
Sachin

I want to know what are the Backend services exposed for the following processes :
Purchase Order Change Approval in MM
and Invoice Approval.

Adding a link to FIM's approval page on email templates - FIM 2010 R2

Hell everyone,
I would like approval notifications to have a link that directs approvers to the approval page on the FIM portal. This is to simplify the approver's process of having to open up the portal, and navigate to the approval page. Is there a way to achieve this?
I tried using the <a href=approval page link> </a> and it is not working.
An clues will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

What approval page link do you use?
Is it http://fimportal.mydomain.com/IdentityManagement/aspx/requests/MyApprovals.aspx ? This one should work.
<a href="http://fimportal.mydomain.com/IdentityManagement/aspx/requests/MyApprovals.aspx">Approvals Page</a>
Otherwise you can use FIMService's Outlook add-ins. Then users would have "Approve" and "Revoke" buttons inside Outlook without a need to navigate to portal.
If you found my post helpful, please give it a Helpful vote. If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an Answer.

Approve and Notify in Integrated Planning

I am wanting to implement an Approve and Notify functionality in my planning application in Integrated Planning.
i.e. When all assistants have submitted their yearly goals, I want to be able to notify the regional manager that they can begin reviewing the goals. Also, when the regional manager has approved them (and performed a few functions), I want to be able to email the assistants.
I am wanting to avoid using BPS - STS if at all possible. Is there a way to have FOX Formula, or some other function, email the users when this has been performed?
I was thinking about marking a submit flag when the assistants submit their hours, and when all flags have been marked for a region, it will notify their manager.
Thoughts?

Hi,
It's quite difficult to track the status of the goal submission by all assistants if you are not using STS.
But you can send mails to assistants when their goals are approved by writing ABAP. You can't achieve that via FOX.
Try to use STS as that will fulfill all your requirements with minimal configuration efforts and no programming. Also, you will not require additional characteristic and programming logic for FLAG.
But if anyways you don't want to use STS let me know, I have the code for sending emails via planning function exit.
Regards,
Deepti

Email on Visual Approval and offline form as attachment in UWL

Hello,
I have a process which is like this
1) User to fill a form which on submit will go for approval.
2) On approval or rejection a mail to be sent to the person who submitted the offline form
I have done the following
1) Create a offline form which will intiatiate the Visual Approval process . This sends out the approval/rejection work item to UWL . But the "From" field in UWL for the task item is "CAF SAP user"
I need to know how to do the following
1) What i need to do is on approval or rejection, some how capture the user who submitted the offline form and then send him an email.
2) Also, if possible on submit of the offline form , i need the UWL task to contain the PDF attachment.
3) How do i send an email on the result state in Visual approval ? There are two result states defined"Data is approved" and "data is rejected" , but the "Target" column doesnt have any options.
Appreciate your help
Regards
Jayesh
Is this possible ?
Edited by: Jayesh Ghodge on Jan 16, 2008 4:04 PM

I have set a callable object of background email type in the action which is mapped to a result state that it should sent out an email on approval or rejection.(target)
The block is executed successfully. but the email is not sent.
I tested the individual callable object alone and the email was sent out.
I have two questions
1) In visual approval where we define the email templates, can some it be a context parameter picked up from adobe form which contains email textfield ( this value will be whom the approval/rejection mail are sent) ?
2) how do i pass parameters from Visual approval block to action of callable obect email type since it requires "recipeint email address"
My process is like this
Process -
> Start process
    Block --> Start block
       Action ---> StartAction
          Visual Approval Callable object
               Result states
                     Approved --> (Target:ActionApproved)
                     Rejected --> (Target:ActionRejected)
       ActionReject
              Reject Email background Callable object
       ActionApprove
              Approve Email background Callable object
The process is kicked off when user submits an offline form
Appreciate if someone can guide me on this.
Regards
Jayesh
Edited by: Jayesh Ghodge on Jan 17, 2008 7:06 PM

Adding approver and reviewer to PO approval process

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for