Approve notification of absence over a RFC call

Hello,
i would approve notfication of absence over a RFC call. I use SAP JCo to run a RFC. In the Transaction SE37 on SAP R/3 System, i found the RFC SWF_DEMO_FORMABS_PROC_WRITE. The import parameters are: I_FORMNUMBER, I_PROCSTATE, I_APPROVBY and I_APPROVDATE. In the discription of this RFC stand, that the values for the import parameter I_PROCSTATE are: character A to approved and character R to rejected. But when I run this RFC in my Java application, it nothing happens. Can anybody help me?
Exist a other RFC to approve a notification of absence, which run over SAP JCo?

Hi Christoph,
Did you get any further with this? I have discovered that SWK_DEMO_FORMABS_PROC_WRITE will allow you to update the form, but when I tried with COMPLETE & CONFIRM the workitem came back to the initiator with not very much information - I thought I had rejected the item, but it didn't look like that in the Inbox.
Do let me know if you figured out the right sequence of RFC calls to Approve or Reject a FORMABSENC.
Best regards,
Darren

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