Guided Procedure Visual Approval Question

Hi,
I'm developing an action that call a Visual Approval user interface.
I have 3 questions:
1) When I click in Approve or Reject button the action is completed and this message is displayed:
(information icon)Action has been completed
I want to display a screen like a summary screen with the information about each step. It's possible with standard templates like Visual Approval?
2) If I click in Reject button, where I know that these action was repproved?
3) Can I get the buttons (Approve or Reject) value in another screen (like grouping parameters)?
Thanks,

Hi Manoel,
1.After the visual approval CO is executed the screen will be only as you specified, it is predifined and you cannot change it.If you want to display some summary you got to create another CO and add it in the same block and the result state of the Visual approval should be assigned to the new CO for display.
2 . Upon clicking the reject button the control will flow to the action specified in the result state of the reject button.
3. Instead on using a Visual approval if you use a webdynpro CO this is possible. While setting the result state you can set the value as the out put of the co and do parameter mapping to get it in the next CO.
Let us know the result....
Regards
Sivaprasath

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