Displaying Travel Expense form as attachment to UWL workitem

Hi experts,
We have customized the travel expense workflow that is WS20000040.
When the requestor raises a travel expense request it goes to the manager for approval in his UWL.
There by default, according to the standard functionality, when approver clicks the particular work item, he can see an attachment attached to the work item, which on clicking, leads to transaction PR05.
Within that transaction when he clicks 'Travel Details' only then he can see the PDF for travel expense form.
Our requirement is, instead of opening the transaction, the PDF should open directly as soon as the approver clicks the link.
Please help.
Regards,
Pranita

Dear Pranita
I hope you are well and many thanks for using the SAP Discussion Forums .
In relation to the scenario that you have described you mentioned the following:
You have customized the travel expense workflow that is WS20000040.
When the requestor raises a travel expense request it goes to the manager for approval in his UWL.
Your requirement is, instead of opening the transaction, the PDF should open directly as soon as the approver clicks the link.
Ok firstly a point to highlight here is have you attempted to reproduce this issue in more than one browser type? Also is compability mode currently enabled on the web browser platform that you are utlizing.
Ok in terms of background functionality and the underlying operations of this scenario the predefined actions which occurs once a workitem is clicked in the UWL depends on XML configuration or via the SWFVISU transaction. By default, the item type configuration for the corresponding work items is set to launch the expense report form.
If you analyze the UWL configuration file and the travel expense XML e.g. com.sap.pct.erp.ESS/MSS - from UWL administration page, you should be presented with the following:
** SAMPLE **
WS20000040
<ItemType name="uwl.task.webflow.decision.TS20000131.ECCCLNT100" connector="WebFlowConnector" defaultView="com.sap.pct.erp.mss.tra.view.TripApprovalView" defaultAction="com.sap.pct.erp.mss.tra.action.DisplayExpenseForm" executionMode="default">
<ItemTypeCriteria systemId="ECTCLNT140" externalType="TS20000131" connector="WebFlowConnector"/> <CustomAttributes>
You should be able to set the predefined open action here.
Also there are two key points to remember when you are working with XML files.
XML files and the UWL follow the notion of precedence. Therefore once you make a change in the UWL XML the file needs to be reuploaded with a new priority of high in order for changes to come into effect and the UWL Cache needs to be cleared.
XML files should be backed up and copied so changes can be reverted easily if required.
Kindly update me as per your findings.
Kind Regards & All The Best
Troy Cronin - Enteprise Portal Support Engineer

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