Approval message

Hello,
This is the scenario: a user is logged into SAP twice (once on one machine and once on another machine) and on one client sends an approval request (e.g when adding a sales order over £100). The authoriser approves the request and a message is sent back to the originator. Even though the originator is logged in twice, the internal message to say that the document has been approved only gets sent to one of the clients the originator is logged in to. Do you know what determines this? Why does it only go to one and not the other? I've done some testing and it doesn't seem to be sent to the client that created the approval request so i'm not sure how SAP decides which one the message goes to.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Kate

Hello Kate,
It is not as easy to give you a definite answer because this depending on database operation. If the user has two concurrent sessions, chances are: the earlier session may receive it most. It is all depending on the timing. Only the session without locking the table can receive the approval message.
Thanks,
Gordon

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