Contract Workflow problem

Hi Frnds,
I have got a problem with my contract. We have putted certain checks in workflow which doesnt allows the contract to go for aproval until the target value is changed. But what we see is that for a particular contract the workflow is going for approval despite the fact that the target value is not changed.
Can somebody help me in this case.
Rohit

HI Folks the issue has been resolved . the user was changing the contract under 1 min gap so it was caudsing abnormal behaviour of the contract
Rohit

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Hi SDN'rs
I want to activate N level-Approval for contract workflow (WS14000148) in SRM
When I am creating the contract in SRM I can see the approvers in the approval preview.
But when I release the contract and look at the approval privew there are no approvers
and the status of the contract is released.
We are on SRM Server 5.5 and SP 07.
Here what I did
1. I implemented the BADI 'BBP_WFL_APPROV_BADI' using the sample implementation and populated the approvers.
2. I activated events SAVED,CHANGEVERSIONSAVED for WS14000148 in OOCU transaction.
3. I see event linkages for WS14000148 for both events SAVED,CHANGEVERSIONSAVED in SWE2 transaction.
4. I assigned role SAP_EC_BBP_PURCHASER to for subworkflow N step for contract WS14000147.
( User who is creating contract has this role)
5. Consistency check for WS14000148 is green and WS14000147 is yellow in SWUD
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I see dump in ST22 with errors TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED and SYSTEM_NO_SHM_MEMORY with WF-BATCH is this any thing to do with that?
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A S

Hi
Please refer to these OSS notes which might help.
Refer to following OSS Notes ->
Note 735026 - Memory problems at BBP_GETLIST_INDEX_FILL
Note 932836 - BBP_GETLIST_INDEX_FILL: Activation not possible
879528 WS14000148: Send mail to initiator incorrect
901200 WS14000148 dia wrk item despite NO_FURTHER_APPROVAL_NEEDED=X
879873 BUS2000113: The Object_ID attribute may be empty
903015 BAdI Workflows: Events and parallel steps
901068 BAdI Workflows: Enhancement of Note 896556
769458 Dynamic workflows: No adjustment after document change
972757 Occurence of the SYSTEM_NO_SHM_MEMORY runtime error
741864 FinBasis: Termination TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED
864473 Deactivating the shared memory when searching by prefix
928642 Container factory: Shared memory dump update
Refer to these links.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/2c/e68d406b305537e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/26/0f8b41ed891609e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/6b/eca441eea7ef0be10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/f7/a6a3415e34b05fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/6b/eca441eea7ef0be10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Also raise an OSS message with SAP as well.
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Hallo,
we are using the standard workflow for checking contracts (WS10400022).
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Hi
Please go through these pointers ->
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Note 586433 Maintain dynamic columns for integrated inbox
Note 513381 Web Transaction BBPPU08 is not entered in TS10407972
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/ee/277e3c281f1817e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Hello friends,
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i met a quesiton about the workflow for PR in 4.6C.
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even i am cancelled the PR, the purchasing group can generate new PO with the cancelled PR as well.
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