Attachments in Travel Expense approval not displayed in UWL

Hi guys,
We here have implemented the travel expense workflow WS20000040. According to the current std functionality, when the requestor creates a travel expense request, he is able to attach any attachments along with the request. But when the request moves to the approver in his UWL, he is not able to see the attachments. (except a default one which on clicking, opens the PR05 txn)
Is there any config or note which needs to be applied for these attachments to be visible under the UWL's attachments?
Please help.
Regards,
Pranita
Please refer attached screenshots of requestor's and approver's screens..

Hi Pranita,
as far as I know, there is no standard functionality that implements the GOS-Links into the UWL. I've had the same problem as you and implemented a workaround that works as follows:
I wrote a class that implements the Interface IF_SWF_IFS_WORKITEM_EXIT and within the only method it contains I read the GOS-Documents which I then attach as normal workflow attachments to the Workflow API. The Class is used within the programming exit of my Workflow's decision task (it's then, by definition, automatically executed). This approach has one major disadvantage: The attachments are only passed to the WF upon sending the TRIP for approval, i.e. only when the workflow is executed, naturally. This means if the TRIP is sent for approval and then the employee creates attachments afterwards (which is possible even if the trip itself can not be changed due to authorization etc.), the manager will not receive these retroactively attached documents.
Beforehand: I'll not share the coding for this because I based it on the coding of an external colleague; but the description above should give you a design-technical idea of how to achieve your requirement.
One more thing. To get rid of that nasty process object that links to the PR05, you can use SWFVISU. I didn't know how to do this myself until 4 months ago or so. Ibrahim Ansari explained me how to do it in one of my threads over here: Hide/Remove process Object from Workitem that is shown as attachment in UWL possible?
Hope it helps.
Cheers, Lukas

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