OOB Approval Workflow Not Working as Expected

I am using the OOB Approval Workflow with an InfoPath (Browser Based) form that is published to a form library. The form contains multiple options for approvers that route serially. I open the form, fill it out, and submit it to the library. The
approval workflow is set to automatically start when an item is created. When the first Item is created the it works correctly. The workflow's task status is "In Progress" and the workflow assigns a task to the person selected in the person/group
picker on the Infopath form.
The issue is when I submit a second form to the library. The workflow automatically sets the the "Outcome" to "Rejected" and never assigns a task to the person selected in the person/group picker on the Infopath form. See below:

check the ULS logs and share the more details why its auto rejected.
you can configure the Diagnostic Log as verbose for Workflow.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588.aspx
share the result.
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Dear Rachit,
There is a dedicated forum for Workflow i.e. SAP Business Workflow
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Dear Rachit,
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I have a peculiar situation to which I have been Googling for weeks now but to no avail.
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Hi Marc,
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VisualStudio 2010 SP1
SL 5 Tools 5.1.30214.0
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Very few people are now using Silverlight because it's kind of deprecated...
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Hello SAP Community!
I am having problems with getting the right result from a subtraction of two KFs which are "normalized to results" which means the KFs really have values expressed as percentages. The substraction that should be performed is of two percentages (e.g.: 87.298% - 85.527% = 1.77%) but my report prints out the result as "number of units" instead (e.g.: 87.298% - 85.527% = 71,514.00 EA). The two normalized KFs actually "point" to two stock KFs, hence the "number of units".
In order to explain the problem I am facing please analyze below text:
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LOAD MONTH PLANT    MATERIAL HORIZON MONTH     FORECAST UNITS
200805         PLANT-A MAT-1            200805         510,235.00
200805         PLANT-B MAT-1           200805          74,240.00
200805         PLANT-A MAT-1           200806         438,721.00
200805         PLANT-B MAT-1           200806          74,240.00
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200805         PLANT-B MAT-1           200807          74,240.00
200806         PLANT-A MAT-1           200805               0.00
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200806         PLANT-A MAT-1           200806         510,235.00
200806         PLANT-B MAT-1           200806          74,240.00
200806         PLANT-A MAT-1           200807         438,721.00
200806         PLANT-B MAT-1           200807          74,240.00
2) Then, assume I have a comparison report, restricted by load month for two months May and June 2008 (filter restricted by two month variables) with FORECAST units spread accross columns for whole horizon (two months also in this case).
Material Plant                                 2008/06     2008/07
===================================================================
MAT1      PLANT-A
                   Base Units (May 2008)        438,721.00 356,981.00
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 510,235.00 438,721.00
          PLANT-B
                   Base Units (May 2008)         74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 74,240.00   74,240.00
          TOTALS   Base Units                   512,961.00 431,221.00
                   Comparison Units             584,475.00 512,961.00
3) Now, let's suppose we want to know the proportions (%) of Base vs Comparison units, so
we normalize forecats to results an we get the below report:
Material Plant                                 2008/06     2008/07
===================================================================
MAT1      PLANT-A
                   Base Units (May 2008)        438,721.00 356,981.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)      85.527%     85.527%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 510,235.00 438,721.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 87.298%     82.784%
          PLANT-B
                   Base Units (May 2008)         74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)       14.473%     15.702%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 12.702%     17.216%
          TOTALS   Base Units                   512,961.00 431,221.00
                   Comparison Units             584,475.00 512,961.00
4) Finally, let's suppose we want to know the deltas (differences) of Base vs Comparison
units, for both number of units and %. The report now look as below:
Material Plant                                 2008/06     2008/07
===================================================================
MAT1      PLANT-A
                   Base Units (May 2008)        438,721.00 356,981.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)      85.527%     85.527%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 510,235.00 438,721.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 87.298%     82.784%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units % 1.77%       2.74%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units    71,514.00 81,740.00
          PLANT-B
                   Base Units (May 2008)         74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)       14.473%     15.702%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 12.702%     17.216%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units % -1.77%      -2.74%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units         0.00        0.00
          TOTALS   Base Units                   512,961.00 431,221.00
                   Comparison Units             584,475.00 512,961.00
5) PROBLEM:
In my report, the "Delta base vs. comp. units %" is not working as expected and
calculates number of units just as "Delta base vs. comp. units" does instead of calculating the % difference.
So my report looks as follows:
Material Plant                                 2008/06     2008/07
===================================================================
MAT1      PLANT-A
                   Base Units (May 2008)        438,721.00 356,981.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)      85.527%     85.527%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 510,235.00 438,721.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 87.298%     82.784%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units % 71,514.00 81,740.00 <<<WRONG!!
                   Delta base vs. comp. units    71,514.00 81,740.00
          PLANT-B
                   Base Units (May 2008)         74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Base Units % (May 2008)       14.473%     15.702%
                   Comparison Units (June 2008) 74,240.00   74,240.00
                   Comparison Units %(Jun 2008) 12.702%     17.216%
                   Delta base vs. comp. units %       0.00        0.00
                   Delta base vs. comp. units         0.00        0.00
          TOTALS   Base Units                   512,961.00 431,221.00
                   Comparison Units             584,475.00 512,961.00
The formulas are:
a) Delta base vs. comp. units %
Delta base vs. comp. units % = Comparison Units % - Base Units %
b) Delta base vs. comp. units
Delta base vs. comp. units = Comparison Units - Base Units
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- Base Units %
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- Delta base vs. comp. units
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2) Calculate Single Value as: Nothing defined
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Thanks for the time taken to read in detail all of this. Long text but necessary to understand what the problem is.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you.
Mario

Hi,
The subraction will be carried out before doing the normalization of your KF's. So, it is displaying "number of units". Create a calculated keyfigure and subtract the KF's and in the properties of this calculated keyfigure, change the enhancement as "After Aggregation".
I hope this will solve your issue.
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I have attached my Vi's which are not working as expected. If I remove ONE subVi and its associated 3 controls and two indicators, the other one works just fine, but when I add two SUB Vis, it goes messy. I am trying to learn this way, I am sure it can be done many other ways, but please help me finding out the problem doing it this way as in my final MainVi, I would like to use 8 such sub Vis. Thanks.
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