Approve and Reject of a workflow from outlook

Hi,
We have a requirement in which the approval and rejection of the workflow has to be done from outlook inbox. Please let me know in what way can this be achieved.
I have gone throuigh the SWNCONFIG documentation, However I am not sure on whether it satifies the above requirement. Kindly let me know if this is possible using SWNCONFIG.
Regards,
Milan Thaker

Hi MT,
well as our friends suggested about DUET, DUET is a separate software altogether.
Its an Outlook synchronization with SAP, but it is limited to very few business processes.
Now question is,
a) what is your business process which you are looking for?
b) Your actual requirement is to approve/reject thru Outlook, well this could be resolved in a different way, that is, say for instance your business process is for Invoice Verification, where you want user to approve or reject. In this case you can integrate Outlook with SAP for this process, where the user would get the workitem in his/her Outlook, the moment the user db-clicks on it, it would take him to SAP tcode for releasing the Invoice block. This could be done thru RSWUWFML2 for all SAP versions or thru SWNCONFIG for ECC versions.
c) If this is not you looking for, then I doubt if such an integration is possible, because getting an Approve and Reject button in your Outlook would be difficult.
d) Else if your organization has EP or UWL installed, then Approve/Rject buttons could be populated.
Hope it helps.
Aditya

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