Deactivating the Invoice Approval Workflow in SRM 5

Hi WF GurusM
We are setting up Invoice Entry in SRM 5.0 and get the message: No approval workflow found. Inform system administrator.
Please can you recommend how we can temporarily deactivate this workflow, so that we no longer get this message. We have looked in SWB_COND but could not work out which WF the system is trying to call.
Regards. Steve Walsh.

Hi Steve,
You can check which workflow is getting called using the following approach:
1. Activate event trace using t-code SWELS.
2. Go to t-code SWEL. Check the BO and event getting triggered while setting up Invoice Entry in SRM.
3. Check the receiver type of the BO event. This would show all the workflows that are receivers of the BO event.
4. Else, check in t-code SWETYPV and check the event linkage of the BO event to the workflows.
This would surely give you the workflow getting triggered on this event.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Saumya

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