Approval of Expense report invoice

I'm working in R12 (12.0.6) and I have requirement create approval logic for invoice of type expense report.
I'm using AME but I found AP invoice workflow (APINVAPR) doesn't support invoice approval for expense report imported by cocurrent program.
My question Is there any way to overide this and allow approval (to make Approval Required)for expense report invoice imported through the Payables Expense Report Export Program ?
Edited by: user13482304 on Jul 11, 2012 12:02 PM

Hi
Invoices imported from iexpenses do not fall under the invoice approval. The idea is that the Approval process is implemented within iexpenses itself. So whtever approval requirement is there, it can be incorporated within the expense report approval AME. The approved expense report will create an AP invoice which has already passed through the AP invoice approval process (through the iexp approval AME process).
Hope this clarifies.
Vinit

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