Next level approver in ESS leave request

hi friends
Am working in ESS leave request workflow. In my scenerio there are 4 level approver. I have function module SWX_GET_MANAGER i have copied and customized to ZSWX_GET_MANAGER with my logic to get the next level approvers. If i entered the PERNR it return all the approver for that employee. How do the workflow know he is the 2nd level approver, he is the 3rd level approver. How can i achieve it. kindly help me...
Regards
vijay

Hi Vijay,
I think you will need to use a loop and a counter so you know the approval level. You can use this to get the manager who belongs to the level.
Regards,
Martin
PS I hope you will show in the thread which solution you got so others will benefit. This forum is about sharing knowledge and one way is to give the solution in your thread, or value the appropriate answers.

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Hi Experts
I am using custom workflow for Ess Leave request process which is copied from WS21500001.
I have added custom class methods to change status from approved to sent.
Then another method i have set next appovaer.
The problem i m facing is that I am getting an error on portal after second approval approves the request.
i.e Field syomol has not been assigned yet.
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This results in unassigned field symbol. and then error.
Please help me resolve this issue.
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Hi All
Thanks for your reply.
I checked why it was giving a dump.
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I filled this with resp actor id after request is approved and status is changed to sent.
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Hi friends,
Does anyone know how to create a 2 level workflow in ESS leave request?? im not able to find any solution for this.
looking forward for your reply...
thanks in advance
sudhir

Hi Sudhir,
You dont have to create a new status for such scenarios. The Java WD Leave Application lists all the Leave Requests that are in SENT status. So after the first approval is done, the status is set to APPROVED in case if it is approved. Now, we have to reset it to the status SENT if you have one more level of approval.
This can be achieved in 2 ways.
1) Changing your Standard Class's coding as suggested by SAP in the above thread.
2) You create one custom BOR with one method - RESETSTATUS - Which resets the status of the Leave Request back to SENT. You can get the required coding from APPROVE method of the above mentioned class.
I followed the second method.
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Dear Experts,
We have an Ep 7.0 system with ECC 6.0 is connected at backend. Currently we have a requirement : whenever an employee will request for a leave from ESS(EP 7.0) the approver should get an intimation mail and similarly when the request is apporved or rejected the requestor should get a mail about this.
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My sincere advise is to do some thing like this,
1. First take a copy of the standard leave workflow template WS12300111
2.Create a ZBOR (in SWO1 txn) in which you define a method which handles mail sending process by using the standard SAP FM SO_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1
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SO_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1.
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When person employee A requests for leave it goes to Employee B being the manager in Org assignment.
But when CEO applies for leave as no body is there on top of him , I want to make HR Director as the agent to approve the leave request.
could you please tel me if any BADI or anywhere I can do the changes to set the agent I want to make to approve the request.
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Sourya prkash.

Hi,
There are two BADi's which can help you to deal with ESS leave requests PT_GEN_REQ and PT_ABS_REQ. just try to check out the above two badi's . There is a method in the default implementation class with name FIND_DEFAULT_AND_RESP_ACTOR..
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ESS Leave request workflow : ws12300111 : Customizing

Dear experts,
I need to customoze ESS leave request workflow WS12300111.
Can you please tell me do I need to Copy this to a NEW workflow generating a new WF no or can I simply generate a new version for this only ? What is ideal ?
1. Can anyone tell me step by step process(config) in ESS leave application workflow?.(SWFVISU????)
2. Is workflow WS12300111, the only workflow that I need to look for leave application ?.
3. If it is WS12300111 I dont see any start event for this workflow. So how is it getting triggered?
4. For the approval task TS12300097, agent determination is done by expression &Agent_0001.Agents&. How does it interact with Org.Structure.
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For identifying first level approver is &Agent_0001.Agents& enough.? For identifying 2nd level approval do I need to write a rule ?
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Hi Sourav,
Try this step by step process(config) in ESS leave application workflow.
ESS Scenario
Workflow Process 20000081 u2013 Create Leave Request with HTML
Steps for triggering the workflow:
1) The employee logs with his user name in the ESS web page.
2) The employee creates a leave request with an optional note and sends it to the appropriate approver (usually his supervisor). The approveru2019s name is automatically displayed in the leave request form and the employee can replace him with another if such a change is needed.
3) The approver (us approver) logs on to sap system or to ESS
web pages and reads his mails in the SAP Business Workplace. The employeeu2019s leave request form appears in the workflow inbox with approve and reject options.
A) If the us approver approves the leave request, he pushes the
button approve from his mailbox (processing status A with
approve). A screen is appeared with a box (Table entry: 0001)
and the approver must push the button continue in order that
the workflow is continued. Then the form is sent to the
employeeu2019s mailbox in Sap. When the employee opens his mails, he receives a note in his inbox that u201Cthe absence from u2026. To u2026..has been approved byu2026.u201D.After that the absence is
automatically created in the sap system. Then the approver gets a mail (notification of completion & Return u2026u2026).
B) When the approver cancels a leave request, he pushes the
button reject and the processing status changes to u201CRu201D.
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Realative OSS Notes:588262, 480103, 717560, 452841, 359197, 321439, 428394, 321439, 693368, 451998 (ITS), 197746 (ITS), 419297 (ITS)
ITS - ESS stand-alone solution for 4.7
This solution allows customers to schedule the 4.6C or 470
install / upgrade independently from the Enterprise Portal or
mySAP Workplace implementation and will be supported at least as long as SAP R/3 4.6C and R/3 Enterprise is supported.
This ESS stand-alone menu is intended solely to allow independent scheduling of the 4.6C or 470 upgrade and the Enterprise Portal / mySAP Workplace installation. To use this solution, you have to take the following steps:
1. If you do not already have R/3 4.6C, HR support package 8,
please import HR support packages to at least this level. From
HR support package 8 and above, the correct services are
implemented. For 470, the corresponding recommended HR SP is 16 (See note 621589)
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delete them.
3. Publish the services PZLE, PZM3 and PZM3_start from your R/3 4.6C system (or R/3 470 system whichever is the case) to your ITS using the SAP@Web Studio or the IACOR service.
4. Maintain the username-employeenumber assignment in your system by customizing Infotype 0105, Subtype 0001 of those employees, who should be able to use ESS.
5. Verify that your users have proper authorizations for
executing RFCs (that is, authorization object S_RFC) from the
function group EH08. If you run into problems, this is most
likely due to missing RFC authorizations to start the service
PZM3.
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7. ESS 4.70 Unicode System ITS 6.10 patch level 29 and above (With IE and Netscape). ITS 6.20, patch level 6 and above (With IE only).
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This is my scenario: An employee has created a leave request from ESS - Leave Request Workflow(Copy of WS12300111) gets triggered and work item gets created in manager's UWL. After that the employee realizes he has created a wrong leave request so he deletes that leave request from ESS. In this case the workflow instance which got triggered when he created the leave request is under process and the work item stays in the Manager's UWL( there is no terminating event or wait for event step in the approval step of workflow WS12300111), when the Manger opens that work item it shows a blank column, ideally speaking when the leave request is deleted by the employee the work item in the manger's UWL should be logically deleted and the workflow should complete, but this part is not handled in the standard workflow WS12300111as well. How to handle this case. I can put a wait for event or a condition to complete a work item at the approval step but i would like to know how the standard ESS leave request framework works in this case. Please advice.

Hi sapient
This is not handled in std. You have clear the next processor in your in method then only the work item will get vanished from the UWL. For clearting the next processor either you can create a method in your BOR and get the request id. For the request id get the max version and clear the next processor or in the BADI you have wirte your own logic when the change happens what you have to do. This logic has to be written in you BADI. I thing BADI will start with PT_ check with that name in se18
You cannot use wait for event or terminating event since its not R/3 workflow its ESS workflow you cannot use ternminating event or wait step.
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Standard functionality of ESS Leave Request Details.

Hi Gurus,
Can anybody share the links of Standard functionality of ESS Leave Request Details..?
And,Is there any standard functionality in ESS Leave Requests that if a User raises a Leave Request and want to extend the leave...is there any rule that User First cancel the previous Leave Request and raise a New Leave Request .
Please explain briefly for the same.
Thanks,
Prakash.

Prakash,
ESS Leave Request with WebDynpro technology:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/5b/76a6d7fd3a4e91bfb422405bf3e04d/frameset.htm
ESS Leave Request with ITS technology (old):
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/80/58dce8142711d289b50000e8216659/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/d9/359018129c11d3964400a0c930669b/content.htm
You've all the customizing in SPRO > Personnel Management > Employee Self-Service > Service-Specific Settings > Working Time > Leave Request
You define:
1) A Rule with certain settings
2) Absences/Attendances to display in ESS, with certain settings, and its assignation to a Rule
3) A WF (commonly based on standard 12300111) --even you could not use a WF, check customizing
4) Run process (manually or not) for analyze, correct and delete or save the entries finally in SAP through PTARQ transaction
And,Is there any standard functionality in ESS Leave Requests that if a User raises a Leave Request and want to extend the leave...is there any rule that User First cancel the previous Leave Request and raise a New Leave Request .
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ESS Leave Request - Set Workflow status to Completed

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We are on ECC 5.0 and we are using ESS to process Leave Requests. We have a custom Workflow based on the standard Workflow template WS12300111 for approval of Leave Requests.
Whenever an employee creates a Leave Request via ESS the Workflow is started. When the employee deletes the request the Workflow has to be stopped/completed. For this we have put a Wait for Event step in a parallel branch to the Approval Process. In the Wait for Event step we wait till a condition ( Request.status = DELETED ) is met.
But when an employee deletes a Leave Request the request is deleted from the list but it gives a message as "Specify a class name".
Can anybody please help us on this( how to complete the workflow whenever the Request is deleted ) and let us know what is the procedure to do this.
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Hi Prashanth
Thanks for your quick reply. But that would not solve my problem. My Workflow looks something like this
                           WF-started by entries in configuration tables
                         Some activity in background
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Thanks
Immanuel

Team Calendar in ESS Leave Request (Error)

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we are configuring the Leave request in ESS and MSS in the portal (EP 7.0, ECC 6.0, latest release). The Leave Request process and application, Time accounts and Workflows all working fine and the customizing is done in the IMG.
Only under ESS -> Leave Request -> Team Calendar we are getting this Error:
java.lang.Exception: No Views found: Missing customizing
     at com.sap.xss.ser.tecl.fc.FcTeamCalendar._checkData(FcTeamCalendar.java:799)
     at com.sap.xss.ser.tecl.fc.FcTeamCalendar._getData(FcTeamCalendar.java:751)
     at com.sap.xss.ser.tecl.fc.FcTeamCalendar.initialReadData(FcTeamCalendar.java:385)
     at com.sap.xss.ser.tecl.fc.wdp.InternalFcTeamCalendar.initialReadData(InternalFcTeamCalendar.java:319)
     at com.sap.xss.ser.tecl.fc.FcTeamCalendarInterface.initialReadData(FcTeamCalendarInterface ....etc.
I have maintained the Customzing in IMG for Team Calendar as the following:
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.1999     Approval Mode     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.1999     Attendance Overview     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.1999     Administrator Mode     View Group (MSS)
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.1999     Request Mode     View Group (MSS)     ESS_LEA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.1999     Team View Mode     View Group (MSS)
Would you please help?
Many Thanks and Regards,
Nazih

Hi Bryan,
1. First of all make sure that the Internet Graphic Server is activated + up and running on your SAP ERP System (see also SAP Note 704604)
2. Then you have to set the Customizing Parameters for the Team Calendar in IMG (SAP ERP System):
a. Tcode: PTARQ -> Customizing
b. Working Time -> Team Calendar
c. Node Create Rule Group -> Example: 00000001 (SAP Standard)
d. Node Adjust WEBMO Feature -> Assign all Nodes to your Rue Group
e. Node Spec. Absecne to be displayed -> Here i assume you have set up the Leave Request Process and WF already, so you only need to assign this to your Rule Group:
Example.
00000001     SAP Standard     01     0100     Leave     01.01.1800     31.12.9999
f. Node Select Employee -->
Here you need to set the Group of your Employee which should be displayed in the team calendar:
Example.
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     Approval Mode     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     CATS Approval     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LCA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     Attendance Overview     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE     PPOME_P
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     Administrator Mode     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE     PPOME_P
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     Request Mode     View Group (MSS)     ESS_LEA_EE
00000001     SAP Standard     01.01.1800     31.12.9999     Team View Mode     View Group (MSS)     MSS_LEA_EE     PPOME_P
---> Tipp: Check all Settings and Leave Types also with an HR Consultant before maintaing these in the ESS Customizing...
Regards,
Nazih

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