Initiating Approval in PM Notification

Question

Dear All,
I have the PM Notification configured for approval.
This configuration enables approve and reject buttons in the notification.  The status 'APRQ' is appearing as the initial status. But I need the approval process to be initiated only when its required. not at the creation of the notification. I cant find how to enable something called 'Submit for Approval'.
Thanks & regards,
Sudhahar R

Answer 1

Sudhahar,
Well, it is not possible to initiate approvals at a later stage after the creation of a notification when the approvals have been associated with the notification type. But there are work-arounds to achieve this.
As Iqbal said, using the user status is the most viable method that can be used to achieve the approval requirement at any desired stage of the notification.
Another work around could be:
You can create a notification of type G0- General notification using transaction IQS1. Now you haven't maintained any approval requirement for G0 type. Now you have also created two notification types: one notification type for which approval is required(e.g. AP) and for the other, the approval is not required(e.g. NO). Now at any later stage when the approval is required, you change the notification type G0 to AP using transaction IQS22. Whereas if you find out that the approval is not required at all, then change the notification type to NO using transaction IQS22.
That way, you can initiate the approval process whenever you like.
Regards,
Usman