ESS Workflow substitution activation

Hi Experts
I need the help regarding the substitutation of Workflow on ESS. For standard leave workflow when I am activating the substituation from business workplace in R/3 its working fine. But the same thing when I had done in ESS UWL iview to activate the substitution in ESS, its showing that its activated and successful but none of the workitems are sent to the substitute approver for action.
Other thing is that for the first time when I had activate the substitution in the system and completes the leave process, and deactivate the substitution than also system is displaying the name of the substitute approver, not the actual approver on ESS leave request screen.
Do I need to do any settings for this. Plz help me in this regard.
Thanks
Sheetal Gupta

Please check the link
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/0b/1fc20097b74c41b38621ec2a9454bb/frameset.htm
read the documentation on how it is done

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