Set Decision Step in WF via Terminating Event

Hi All,
I have a custom Work flow in which I am trying to terminate a Decision Step via a terminating event.
Following Pre- requisites have been set:
1) In the Control task for the decision step I have assigned the terminating event.
2) Required linkages have been maintained via SWE3 transaction.
ISSUE: When the terminating event is raised then the Workitem for this steps gsts completed but workflow ends with an ERROR --> "No Successor for the terminating event defined".
Please let me know if any of you is familiar with the issue or have any inputs.
Thanks in advance..

Hi Sourabh,
There would be some binding problem going with Decision step while using Terminating event maintained at
the Task of the Decision step.
Rather go with FORK step with two parallel branch and 1 necessary branch. Specify the approval step in one
branch and wait for the release step event in another branch.
Hope this way would solve your issue.
Good luck
Narin

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Weclome to the SDN forums. We don't have a specific Workflow forum yet. Please post your questions in the General SDN Forum until we do.
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I cant see the event in SWEL. The vent monitor is on because if I create event in SWUE, it shows up.
How you actually create the event now?
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>If i trigger it using funciton module -- then it doesnt find any receivere so it doesnt terminate the task. it is seen in SWEL with no receiver found. do i still need to do commit work ?
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ok ill try doing commit work after the create event function module
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I think instead of using a event you can use a container element. You want to make sure that the users performs the approving action properly. If the user does that inside your code you set this container element as X. You pu the approval step inside a loop that checks whether the container element is X. Also another important thing you need to put the parallel approval step along with the loop inside a subworkflow.
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My custom workflow has asynchronous task where the terminating events trigger from ABAP program and passed some data.
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