Parallel Approvals in AME

Hi All,
I have a question from my fellow colleague which I am not being able to respond to clearly. Hope someone can help me.
The question is about the usage of Parallel Approvals.
Can Parallel Approvals work ONLY when there is an approval group with serial also defined ?
Or do they work when Approvals are static ? Or with Single/Multiple Approval Groups ?
Thks
Ravi

Check these reference Docs
Configuring Parallel Approvers Notification [ID 471125.1]
How To Set Parallel Approvers In AME for SSHR? [ID 389753.1]
Does SSHR Support Parallel Approvals Functionality? [ID 473038.1]

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Take the example outlined in the above note:
Example
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Created Purchasing Requisition (PR) Approval Rules with PO Cost Center of Line Item Attribute.
Rule#1 is defined for Cost Center = 510
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Approvers of 510 are 1) John and then 2) Jim
Approvers of 520 are 1) Ben and then 2) Brown.
Create a PR and allocate expenses to 510 and 520 cost center, when submitting for approval, the PR was sent to John and Jim, then was sent to Ben and Brown respectively. There are 4 serial levels of approval required. This is the current functionality.
Expect that AME should notify to John and Ben to approve the PR at the same time (instead of doing the entire approval list of 4 approvers in serial like is currently done) and then once John approves approval notification is sent to Jim (for Cost Center 510 approval) and once Ben approves approval notification is sent to Brown (for Cost Center 520 approval).
When we set this up, the AME does indeed notify John and Ben as expected, however, if Ben is the first person to approve the PR, an approval notification is not sent to Brown until John and Jim have both approved it. For true parallel approvals, I'd expect Brown to receive a notification after Ben's approval, regardless of the actions of John and Jim.
Does anyone know if this is standard functionality, or if it's possible to configure the AME so that parallel approvals works properly?

Yes, there are two lines, with John and Jim are on one line, and Ben and Brown on the another. The set-up works becuase John and Ben are notified in parallel. The issue is that if Ben approves, a notification is not sent to Brown until Jim approves. It seems that the AME waits for the first line to complete before it progresses the second line. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced the same problem or been able to fix it.
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Approvals Management (AME)

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In the Approvals Management Implementation Guide Release 12.1 Part No. E13516-04 On page 5-5 it makes mention of the Oracle Approvals Management Developers Guide. But I cannot find this guide, looked on Metalink, Googled etc etc to no avail. Any ideas where to find the developers guide ??
tks R

Hello,
Review Metalink Note HRMS Approvals Management (AME) Developers Guide [ID 289927.1] on https://support.oracle.com.
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I have created a parallel process with using gateways to send a form through 8 concurrent approvals; the problem is that the form only gets updated with the formdata of the quickest completed route; so ultimately data is lost from some branches when the gateway closes. (Rather than acting more so like a database where fields are locked while in use and updated with no data lost).
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In my scenario, i have a process for 3 Approvals, wht i m doin nw is..after first approval's Approve, nxt approval action will be triggered and so on. After all the 3 sequential Approves, i need to update some table in SAP.
But now, i dont want other Approvals to be waiting for the first Approver's decision. I want all the three Approvers to get the VA(Visual Approval) Screen at the same time and only after all the 3 Approves by respective Approvals, i need to update SAP table.
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Hi Runal,
You can make use of Parallel Blocks in this case.
Insert the actions for all the Approvers in the same Parallel Block.In this way,each action can be executed independent of the other within the parallel block.However,you can exit this parallel block only after all the Approvers have approved.
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For more details on parallel block, you can refer to the link below:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4848c8d1-0c01-0010-33b9-87a6488c48a7
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Problem in setting up Oracle Approvals Management (AME)

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I Receive an error message of "No rules are applicable to this transaction" during AME testing of
a real transaction for the Payables invoice approval process.
### Responsibility name and request ID ###
Approvals Management Business Analyst
### Responsibility and navigational paths to reproduce ###
1. implement Oracle Approvals Management.
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I already applied patch AME.B RUP 2 but still the same error encountered :(
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Approvals Management Reporting Utility Support Tool
Doc ID: Note:287255.1
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Parallel approvals in the workflow

Hi,
Sorry, i am deleting this question as its already answered in a different thread.
Thank you.
Jim
Edited by: user578186 on May 25, 2009 7:15 AM

If you do not expand the role for a notification activity, Oracle Workflow sends one copy of the notification message to the assigned performer role and that notification is visible in the notification queue of all the users in that role. If one user in that role responds to or closes that notification, the notification is removed from the notification queue of all other users in that role. The flow will continue thereafter.

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Our customer needs to use AME with parallel approvals and with the voting paradigm ( First Responder Wins ) for AP Invoice Approval. We are on Release 12.1.1 . Is this feature currently supported and if not is there a timeline for this feature to be made available for AP Invoice Approval.

Hi,
Please see if these documents help.
Note: 473005.1 - R12: First-Responder-Wins Voting Is Not Working
Note: 743897.1 - Is It Possible To Use 'Serial' And 'Parallel' Approval Routing Together?
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AME for PO Approvals 11i

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We have a requirement to use AME for core procurement, specifically for purchase order approvals in 11i.
Does AME support PO approvals / re-approvals in 11.5.10 for core Procurement module? If yes, has anyone tried to customize AME for PO approvals in 11i.
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We do not use this feature, but the capability exists. Pl see these MOS Docs
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Spawning multiple approval tasks in parallel in OIM11g SOA Composite

Hi,
We are trying to implement the following scenario.
1) We are trying to develop a SOA composite for AD Group Access
2) The request dataset contains a child table for AD User Group Details which is as follows.
<AttributeReference name="AD User Group Details" attr-ref="UD_ADUSRC" type="String" length="20" widget="text" available-in-bulk="true">
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6) Once the request is sumbitted the associated SOA composite would be executed.
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a. For each group selected, there is a corresponding dataApprover who should approve the request.
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e. If a dataApprover or securityApprover rejects the request then the user shouldn't get membership to the respective group. However, this shouldn't prevent the user from getting membership to other groups for which dataApprover-securityApprover approval was done.
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Regards,
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Single request id then you are bit safe. The way to do it would be:
1. Set the dataApprovers as a comma separated list of all the data approvers for all the groups.
2. Set the securityApprovers as a command separated list of all the security approvers for all the groups.
3. In Human Task assign the first stage to all the dataApprovers and second stage to securityApprovers.
Cons of this approach are:
1. All the approvers would see all the data and they might be confused what they are approving.
2. securityAppprovers for say group1 won't get the item untill all the dataApprovers approve the request even though dataApprover has approved the request for group1.
3. Would be hard to implement the rejection cases; depending upon how you want to handle the rejections. For e.g. what if any dataApprover rejects the request? Should the whole request be rejected? If so what would happen to those which have already been approved by dataApprovers? Same case goes for securityApprovers. Again since you cannot modify the requested data once the request is submitted; thus you cannot remove the rejected groups from the request.
4. You provisioning won't trigger untill all dataApprovers and all securityApprovers have approved the request.
5. Any one approve from comma separated list of approvers would approve the request. Thus you cannot make sure that all the approvers should approve the request. The workaround would be to create parallel stages in human task and assign one group/approver to one parallel stage. This would mean that you will have to hard code the number of parallel approvals which can be generated in your BPEL human task (This would again depend upon the number of groups requested). To workaround this you could use BPEL extenal routing program where you can pragmatically assign tasks but again since there is no entitlement based request engine in OIM, thus there would be issues there too.
As a workaround, make sure that you allow only one group to be requested per request and reject the request outright if multiple groups are requested in a single request. You will need to buy in the business on this one.
Have heard the grapevine that 12G which is in the pipeline would have entitlement based request engine and also would allow for modification of request data once the request is submitted.
HTH,
BB

Parallel Approval in Self Servie HR (SSHR)

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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.
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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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I was wondering what product families/modules AME was able to be applied to within both the 11i and r12 environment. In particular if the GL - Journal Entries could utilize the AME approval system.
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Noel,
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http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/index.html
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