OTL Dual & Parallel Approval - Is it possible ??

Hi,
We have following requirements from the client on timesheet approval for single application Payroll.
1. Can we have multiple approval using supervisor hierarchy for n level of supervisor?
2. Can parallel approval is possible. Where timesheet of user 'A' route to supervisor S1 (present as employee supervisor on asg screen) & S2 (present in employee asg DFF), on approval from any one of them it then route to Manager M.
Regards
Ayaz

Any one who can share light on this..?

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Parallel Approval in Self Servie HR (SSHR)

Hi All,
We have a requirement in which we need to send approval to multiple people at once. And if any approver approves the transaction, it should be considered approved and should not require any further approvals.
According to the metalink note 473038.1, parallel approval is not possible in SSHR but the workaround is available using Roles in HRMS.
I tried using this workaround and it seems only half of this solution is working and half not. It sends approvals and it is visible in Worklist but not sending any approval emails for approvers. Approver has to go into SSHR and has to approve the transaction. There is no push notification or any other way for approver to know that there is any action pending for his attention. Is there any solution which can send approval mails? Or any other solution for the parallel approvals?
Thanks for help in advance.
Regards,
CAH

Hi,
Thanks for looking into the issue.
I can receive the FYI notifications. So the notification mailer is up. Also, for other transactions, where only one approver is required, I am able to receive the notification. So Notification Style is also not disabled.
Any other thought?
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Chirag

Required Parallel Approval from OTL Timekeeper Entry Form

Hi All,
Is it possible to perform parallel approval from OTL timekeeper entry form? it is using the following workflow OTL Seeded Approval Workflow HXCSAW(i think) if it is using this workflow can we change this workflow or need to write a new workflow for above mentioned requirement.
Please share you experiences , its urgent
Regards,
Ssali

Hi,
HXCSAW is a custom workflow which do nothing accept approving and that can be change as per customer requirement. This child workflow called by parent workflow process HXCEMP. If u going to change the HXCSAW then u also need to change the seeded package associated with this workflow to embed your logic.
We have done it through SSHR timesheet entry page, no idea if OTL timekeeper entry form carries approval or not.
Whts the nature of ur parallel approval ? and how u can able to manage if via workflow ?
Regards
Ayaz

Parallel Approval for Approval Groups

I have a doubt in AME rules which can be created for the Payables Invoice Approval Transaction Type. I have to configure AME rule for the particular Scenario. (Issue is the item marked in red)
Scenario:-
Created a Line item attribute to get the value of minor account from invoice distribution line. SQL query for same is given below.
select glcc.segment3
from ap_invoice_distributions_all apd, gl_code_combinations glcc
where
apd.dist_code_combination_id=glcc.code_combination_id and
apd.invoice_id = :transactionId and apd.invoice_distribution_id in (select invoice_distribution_id
from ap_invoice_distributions_all
where invoice_id = :transactionId
order by apd.invoice_distribution_id
Created 2 conditions with this attribute, Minor1 - for segment3 17240 and Minor2 for segment3=44496
Created two different rules using these conditions (used two different approval groups, with one approver each in approval group)
I created an invoice with 2 distributions. First dist has minor 17240 (satisfying rule1) and second with minor 44496 (satisfying rule2)
I expected both these rules to be executed at the same time and e-mail to be sent to these approvers parallely (we tried to set order num in approval group to not unique and num=1. But it didnt work)
However, these rules are processed serially and notification is sent to second approver after first approver approves it.
We need to figure out a way, how notifications can be sent to both approvers (of different approval groups) at the same time also can item level approval be configured for approval groups?
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Did a little digging and it worked!

WS14000133- Parallel Approval

Hi,
In SRM 5.0 workflow WS14000133- n level approval of SC at header level, Is there a feature by which we can have parallel approval, but ensure that SC goes to next level only when all the parallel approvers have approved the cart?
Currently in our system, the cart is pushed to next level even if one approver approves it and the work item is removed from the inbox of all other approvers.
Regards,
Srivatsan

Hi Srivatsan,
As far as I know it is not possible. But why would you want this? If you want paralel approval, wouldn't it be better to go for item level approval, so the items are approved by the person responsible.
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Martin

Dynamic Parallel Approval for HCM Process and Forms

Hi everyone,
I have a scenario where I need to use the "Dynamic Parallel Approval" (or to keep it simple, initially I tried using the "Parallel Approval" wizard)for a workflow used in the HCM Process and Forms.
The standard task for approval in process and forms is TS17900101. I have mentioned a multiline container in the Miscellaneous tab of this task. However,I was unable to use this task in the wizard. There are no results attahced to this task unlike any other standard approval task (like TS30200147). I need to use the task TS17900101 in the workflow assigned to process and forms, but not sure how to handle this scenario (parallel approval).
If this is not the right way of doing it, Is there any workaround for "Parallel Approval" in HCM Process and Forms.
Could anybody throw some light around this area.
Thanks for your help.
- MM

Thanks Anuj. But I believe, the container element that I add in the miscellaneous tab does not necessarily have to be used in the agent assignment. The multiline container is just to instantiate the workitem 'n' number of times. Correct me if I am wrong.
My concern is that I was unable to use this approval task (TS17900101) in the workflow wizard for dynamic paralle/parallel approval.
Arghadip - Thanks for your suggestion. I have seen some your nice contributions in the WF forum.
I actually tried using the 'Blocks'. But this is what I ran into. When I send multiple approval requests (say 3), if one person has approved it and the second has rejected it,I need to take out the workitem from the third person's list (because it has been rejected by someone in the group). I am not sure if this is possible using Blocks. And in my case the third person is still having the workitem, but gets a dump/error when he tries to open it.
Also, if any one has rejected the request, I do not have to wait for the rest to take any action on the workitem and proceed further. But I guess in 'Blocks' it will not let you go out unless every workitem has been processed.
To summarize,here's what I need - I need to come out of the block for two conditions. One, if everyone has approved, comeout of the block with an apprval flag. Two, if anyone has rejected (even if some have not processed their workitem), delete the workitems from others inbox and come out of the block with a rejection flag.
So, any kind of input or suggestions on how this could be handled would be highly appreciated.
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MM

How to Rewind Notification (Parallel Approval Subprocess) Back to Previous Approver

Dear Gurus,
Please help me in Rewinding notification back to previous Approver from the current Approver.
This is Requisition approval notification and it is a part of Parallel Approval Subprocess Notification.
Any quick update will be highly appreciated.
Need this urgent as it needs to be done in production.
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Niladri Biswas.

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RFx Parallel approval workflow

Dear Experts,
I'm looking for sample code on how to implement the BADI agent determination with multiple areas for header (decision type 1) for RFx (BUS2200).
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Parallel approval nest sequent approval for SC

Dear All
     Ｉ am using SRM7.02.
　 I can realize parallel approval for SC as following.
     only after A1 and B1 approved. the process will end or enter next level.
   But , the customer gave me a new challege, as the following.
The work item is sent to A1 and B1, after A1 approved , A2 would receive the work item.   after B1 approved, B2 would receive the work item.
Only after both A2 and B2 approved. the process end or enter next level.
any experts can give me some suggestion?
thanks in advance
Jesse

Hi Jesse,
Even our clients in my earlier project, asked for a similar workflow. But SRM workflow wont support that because there are few scenarios which makes things complex. For example, when we have a combination of type 1 and type 3 approvals in a single flow, a part of the document reaches type 1 approver and a part doesn't. And also if a cart items are distinguished into one set in approval level 1, and they can be in different sets in next level even if all approval levels are of type 3 or type 4.
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Parallel approval inWF

my question is this:
i want to send an activity to multiple approvers at same level for approval. these approvers i will get at run time.
i have given multiline element in mislanious tab of that activity.
it is working fine and activity is going to all approvers.
but now in parallel approval i did not find how to know which approver had aproved and rejected it.
as i have to run the WF for next level if any one of them reject it.
is there any way to get the information of parallel process without defining different variable for each parallel approval process.
as we get no of parallel process at run time we cannot do it.
so if you can help me out for this problem i will be very thankful to you.
please reply soon its a bit urgent.

Create a fork with 2 parallel branch and 1 necessary branch. Now in 1 branch you put a wait for Event step and in the other you put the parallel approval task. When the user is using the Reject fnality you need to raise the event that you have put in the wait for event step. Regarding the WI_ACTUAL_AGENT Container element you need to bind this value from Task to Workflow in order to know which user has executed this workitem. I think if you have confusion try to make use of parallel subworkflow instead of parallel task.
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Parallel Approval In Quoting

Hi All,
Our customer requires Parallel Approval in quoting. (Approval mail to be sent to more than one approver). Customer will be using AME.
Is there any way we can achieve this? Please confirm.
- Mahesh Jayaraman

At this time, Quoting doesn't support parallel approval. you can follow this approach as mentioned in this document.
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If you need help, please let me know.
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RK
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Parallel approval workflow, end process

Hi everyone
I have a approval workflow that has 3 users approvers with a parallel approval.
I want to end the workflow (Approved or rejected) when ONE OF THIS USERS complete your task
Does anyone know a way to do it ?
Thanks in advance!
Regards

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Document Contains Errors. Approval is not Possible.

I have a SC approval that errored out when coming back to SRM. We run RBBP_OFFLINE_EVAL program periodically throughout the day to pick up offline approvals from users. In the spool list, I see this message:
Document Contains Errors. Approval is not Possible. And the system gives me the WI ID, SC # and the object type BUS2121.
I've never seen such an error before. The document here...is it referring to the approval email itself? We instruct our users to not edit the approval email in any way. They just have to click on the approval link and click on Send in Outlook. I don't know if the document it's referring to is the SC or the approval email.
Can anyone help?
SN

Hi,
You are right. This error is the issue. To answer your other question why this message was not raised earlier;the problem could be that at the time of sc creation, there might be sufficient budget. But because your shopping cart was in approval for some time, it is possible that some more shopping carts have been raised with the same WBS and got approved. This would reduce the overall budget available. When the shopping cart is approved, one more check is done by the system and this time there was no sufficient budget.Hence the error is displayed. Only option for you now would be to ask FI people to increase budget or resubmit the cart by changing the value of the shopping cart.
Regards,
Sanjeev

How to implement a parallel approval?

Hi, all.
My process has a parallel approval, but I have no idea how to implement it.
I have a task which has to be approved by three different managers parallelly.
If all of them approve the task, then the task will keep going, otherwise the task fails.
Besides I also have to monitor which manager doesn`t make a decision yet.
Can any have the same requirement with mine?

Hi Louis,
I think this document do provide some steps for creating parallel blocks approval type.Hoping this might resolve or act as help in the query you are facing.Link : [parallel|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8269bdb8-0701-0010-4692-c3349106ec66].
Have a best day ahead.

"Crazy" parallel approval step

Hi all,
I'm using R3 v4.7 and I have a very strage problem in a
workflow to approve purchase requisitions.
I use a parallel step with 7 forks (4 mandatory and 3 optional according to the material groups). In this parallel step I use the deadlines to approve automatically after x days.
In some cases I get the following "crazy" behaviour:
the workflow doesn't continue in this parallel step in the normal way. The green line that highlights the flow in the log has interruptions that I don't understand and some tasks can be sent to any user since some steps are skipped wothout a reason.
I still don't know if there are OSS notes about this issue and I should like to know from you if you have found a similar problem using deadlines. The other approval steps (without deadlines) never had a problem like this.
I'd like to attach a screenshot of the log to be clearer...
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Angelo

Hi,
I had a similar issue a while back for a condition. The first step after the left branch somehow returned to the right branch, it looked pretty weird in the workflow log.
I then wrote an OSS message and in the end someone fixed it, it was caused by corrupt data in some of the nodes tables, SAP couldn't tell me how this was possible though.
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