Next level Approval....

Hi ,
<b>i am working on N-step Item level approval workflow.
i am facing a problem.
up to first level approval is working fine.
when two approval come to picture , workflow doesn't work.
my problem is , say for example. SC has two items, first item needs to be approval by 'A', second item needs to be approval by 'B' up to here my workflow is working fine.
after here i got the problem, when 'A' approved the first item and 'B' won't approve the second item means , that first item should go to 'C' for value approval. here is the problem. when 'A' approved and 'B' won't approve , the work item won't go to 'C'. the moment 'A' Approved and 'B' rejected follow-on document gets create in Back-end system , instead get approve by 'C', the follow on document should create after 'C' approve.</b>
please give me a soluction.
thanks,
Durai.

Hi Durai,
I worked on this Workflow and it is working fine.
Basically, the whole workflow is driven by the approval objects, which you need to define within your BAdI. The three tables you need to populate works like this:
Approval_table:
This table contains the list of approvers who will need to approve a given shopping cart. Each approver needs to be linked to an approval object (approval object guid)
Item_approval_table:
This table links the item guid to the approval object guid. It is possible to have more than one approval object for on line or more than on line for a given approval object.
Item_approval_object:
This table should contain a definition of each unique approval object which needs to be approved in a given shopping cart and the relevant guid.
This workflow works very different from any other workflow in SAP. The shopping cart transaction will trigger and update the workflow containers directly when a shopping cart is ordered or changed.
The three main workflow containers Approverlist, ApprovalItemList and ItemAppObjTable more or less correspond to the three tables listed above. These containers are usefull to look at when you want to analyse a given workflow.
I suggest that you implement the logic for population of the three tables in a function module instead of directly in the BAdI. This will make it easier to develop, analyse and debug if you have any issues.
Hope this will help.
Please reward few points, if this answer is helpful.
Regards.
Pras

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