Filter Substitute for EBP Approval Inbox

Hello Gurus,
I have the issue surrounding substitution functionality in EBP.
SRM Substitution allows all users to be set up as Substitute. It does not make sense setting up SU01 user as substitute who is not a valid EBP user. We want the substitution to show up possible Agents List only the EBP users instead of all SU01 users.
SAP has adopted the same design of R/3 for the Substitution in SRM.
Certainly this is not acceptable from SRM point of view when we know all users cannot approve or reject and they need to be valid EBP users within SRM.
I knew Forwarding can be restricted if i setup General Forwarding not allowed for workflow task. Certainly I cannot use Forwarding as alternative to substitute. I am looking something similar to that for substitution.
Anyone has any comments / experiences.
Thanks & Regards,
Jay

Jay-
Greetings stranger! I have run into the same requirement - as you have probably seen the substitution program appears to have no BADIs to control the logic - see function group BW02, Screen 1382, Module 1328_handle_action - in here you can see SAP has made no accommodation to verify the EBP validity - we have the desire to limit the substitutes to users of the same or higher signing authority.
Thus at this point it seems you have 2 options -
1. Modify the existing program to incorporate your own checks -
2. Create a new substitute maintenance transaction which can include your own required checks
Option 1 would be much easier to implement but I think a mod at this program level is too risky. We have the custom tcode to maintain the substitutes under consideration - we would be using standard function modules to set the substitutes etc. but we would remove the standard substitute option from the inbox.
This is what we have come-up with at this point - I am very interested to know if others have been presented this issue and how they managed the issue.
Regards-
b

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