Parallel Approvals in Guided Procedures

Hi Experts,
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.
But I m stuck over here, how can i achieve this, how to get each Approvers decision, so that after all the 3 Approvers Approve, will update that SAP table.
Please help me out with this..its very urgent...plz..
Thanks & Regards,
Runal.

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.
The actions to be executed after the Approvals can then be inserted in a Sequential Block following the Parallel Block.
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
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Gaurav.

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