Is Oracle Workflow customization possible using APIs?

Our Purchase Requisition gets approved through Oracle Workflow Notifications.
Now I need to change Recipient of Notification,i.e. to change workflow on runtime (by using trigger on wf_notifications table) depending on some conditions.
Please help which APIs should I call from trigger to change the forwarded to/ recipient.
Can I use directly Send(),Forward(),Cancel() etc APIs contained in Package WF_NOTIFICATION ?
I used Forward(), but it did not work.
Please help.

Just go through this link, you will get idea what to do for workflow
Customizing PO approval workflow POAPPRV for email subject/body changes
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Con este apellido seguro que entiendes el Espaqol.
Mi empresa esta iniciando un proyecto con la tecnologia que
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