BPC 7.5 NW - BPF - Secuencial Steps ?

Hi team, there is no way to customize the BPF to ensure that activities are not sequential, with reviewers but not mandatory depending on the finalization them before, we have many branch offices for sales and many cost centers for expenses.
Any idea where configure, some customizing, table ?
Thank you.

The only back end BW tables to customize regarding BPF are those having to do with e-mail notifications. There are no BW customizing tables related to BPF sequence logic.
Whether steps have to be performed in a sequential manner is determined in the BPF template setup. Specifically when each step is added to the BPF you have to define the "Opening Criteria" which has two choices: 1) All step regions and 2) Matched step regions. All step regions means all must have a status of complete before the next step can be opened. Matched step regions means that the next step is opened for the same step region while allowing other regions to remain pending.
For your situation with many different branch offices and cost centers you might want to use Matched Step Regions to allow each to proceed "non sequentially", if I understand your question correctly.
Also don't forget that a BPF does not preclude a user/reviewer doing any task directly in Excel for which they have task security, regardless of the sequence of steps defined in a BPF.
Best regards,
[Jeffrey Holdeman|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/profile/Jeffrey+Holdeman]
SAP Labs, LLC
BusinessObjects Division
Americas Applications Regional Implementation Group (RIG)

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