SAP CRM Approval Management

Hi Experts,
We are trying to implement the functionality for Approval Management, in CRM 7 EHP2. We followed the documentation on SAP Help as mentioned below and the IMG help.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm700_ehp02/helpdata/en/8a/5283bda2364bc09ffc7aa84f48bc72/frameset.htm
My only query is: Is this functionality only meant for "Service Requests" or for others such as Sales Orders?
There is no such restriction mentioned anywhere in SAP Help or IMG documentation, however, during implementation, we saw that there was no assignment block for "Approval Procedure" for the sales order, but is present for the Service Request, and works very well.
We are able to assign the "Approval Procedure" to the Sales Order transaction type in SPRO, though.
Are we missing something, or is it a future functionality that is partially implemented in EHP2?
Thanks & Regards,
Nelson.

Hi,
You can assign the approval process for other transaction apart from Service request.
We had did the same approval process for CRM pricing approval in one of our project. We linked a workflow for the approval process.
Regards
Ashish

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