Archive guided procedure process and maintain history attributes

Hi All,
We have the need for a workflow through portal with several approval steps.
We want to use guided procedures but cannot find whether it answers to our following requirements:
- When a process is completed, we want to be able to see some detailed data of each activity.
          -ID of the object created after approval    (which we display in the last step of the procedure).
          -Comments from the requestor               (upon which the approver decided to approve).
          -Date and time of approval
This so we can track back from the object id why it has been created and who approved it. (also when the process is already archived, we would still like to see this).
-Does anyone know if there are limitations to the archiving process?
-The exact approver of the process is important to retain as well. In the archive monitor I now only see Initiator, Owner, Overseeer and Adminstrator kept in history. But we need to know who did our approval (which is not amongst these roles).
Thanks for your help
Jurjen

Hello,
Even we have similar kindda requirement. I don't know how well is the standard archive monitor will suit this need. As you have said there might be some vital information that may not be possible to be archived in the standard Archive for GP.
So I'm planning to build my own Ztable in SAP R/3 for the archival of all the processing details, agents involved,date and time etc so that this table can be updated as and when the particular step in the GP has been completed.
This way, I guess i can decide what all details to be archieved and hence code accordingly. Also, this doesn't have any limitation as its a Transparent table in R/3.
Hope you can do something similar to this.
Cheers,
Mandrake

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Hello Guru's,
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Full Message Text
Exception occured during processing of Web Dynpro application sap.com/cafeugpuiinst/AInstantiation. The causing exception is nested.
[EXCEPTION]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sfwmd.Contract.newcontract(Contract.java:798)
at com.sfwmd.wdp.InternalContract.newcontract(InternalContract.java:814)
at com.sfwmd.ContractView.onActionComplete(ContractView.java:5075)
at com.sfwmd.wdp.InternalContractView.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalContractView.java:1142)
at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87)
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Full Message Text
application [webdynpro/dispatcher] Processing HTTP request to servlet [dispatcher] finished with error.
The error is: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
Exception id: [0003BAC3E095007900000C830000620E0004B61AE95D50D6]
Please assist in resolving this issue.
Thanks & Regards,
Pramod

Hi Maksim,
Thanks for the reply. you are right NPE is at 798 line but this issue is only with one user, for others it works fine. That is my issue.
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wdThis.wdFireEventCallContractView(wdContext.currentNewOutputElement().getW_Zzconnum(),flag);
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Thanks & Regards,
Pramod

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