Two level approval in Cats

Is it possible to have two level approval of timesheets in cats? If yes How to do that?

Hi,
Its not possible to have multi level approval process in current set up of SAP.
If you look at the current process flow time entry>approval> transfer (depending on the time entry profile some profile does not require approval level and direct transfer to receiving objects).
considering the present flow, approved time is waiting to be transferred to receiving objects. it means only one level was set up.
If you want to go for two levels please develop custom transactions from beginning of time entry to transferring. Else you can raise OSS note to have such functionality.
Thanks,
Sudhakar

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Two level approval in workflows

Dear All,
I am making a workflow which trigger when the Maintenance Order get RELEASED, the functionality of the workflow is as follows :-
1. A recipient should get workflow in his/her SAP inbox for Approval or Rejection of maint. Order. release.
2. When he approves then the maint. Order should go to Second Recipient for firther Approval.
3. After the second approval the workflow Initiator get the main that his request has been approved.
4. At any point if the approver rejects his Request the application should get back to Workflow Initiator.
Now my first problem is that how can i make the logic for the two level approval.
What i have done is that i have taken one decision Step with the Outcomes
Approve
Reject
On the approve outcome i have added another Decision Step for second approval but htis is not working.
My Second Problem is how can i know that the request has been approved or not. Is there any status Field from where i can know that the request has been approved or not so that i can use condition step.
Please help as i m struck beacause of these two problems.
Thanks!!!!

> On the approve outcome i have added another Decision Step for second approval but htis is not working.
>
Up until this point I was very happy with your explanation, it was thorough, and included the functional need. However, it is quite important to know <u>how</u> 'it is not working'. Are you getting an error when you try to activate the workflow? Is the workflow going to ERROR status during runtime after the first approver has approved? Is there perhaps an error message? Someone might recognize that error message and say 'yes, I had this problem once, and here's how you fix it'.

Two level approval workflow not working

Hi Experts,
I am making a workflow which have two level approval , now the problem is that the first level approver is going only to workflow initiator and if I use any other ID it is not working , it just hangs there.
Secondly if I send the first approval to workflow Initiator and it approves it then it hangs with second decision step.
I have made the agent assignment as general task. I have also checked SWU3 and all the things in that are activated.
Kindly help me in this issue.
Edited by: Rachit Khanna on Aug 19, 2009 9:51 AM

Dear Rachit,
There is a dedicated forum for Workflow i.e. SAP Business Workflow
Post your thread there, you will get fast response.
I can suggest you one thing check the agent assignment is done or not
Regards,
Chandra

OIM 11g r2: SOA workflows for two level approval.

HI Experts,
I am using SOA workflows in OIM 11g r2. The requirement is to have a two level approval for a role (which provisions Oracle DBUM connector at present) : first for Manager and second for the Role owner.
I have created and deployed the composite with name AddAccessApproval but need to find how to use this for two level approval.
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Two level Approval WorkFlow

Hi.
I have this problem:
Have two Approval WF which a re triggered deppending on the user type
The first WF is a one level approval WF, and work Very fine,
i'ts assigned to a group using an adaptor and when it's approved, the provisioning process is assigned to SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS and executed success.
The second WF is a two level (secuential) WF, also is assigned to a group using an adapter and when first level is approved, the Second level task is executed (also assigned to a group via adapter), but when the second level task is approved, the provisioning task is assigned to the same user which approved the second level and the provisioning process involves add/delete values from a lookup, then I receive an "ACCESS DENIED" error.
I've been thinking about adding a third level and assign it to XELSYSADM, but think that is not a pretty standard solution.
a way to draw the second WF is:
task 1 Response = Approved then execute Task 2
Am I missing something?
Should I use Task Dependency instead Executing the second task basen on the first Task Response ?
Thank You.

That's correct.
The first approval level appears to be finished by XELSYSADM even if its approved by another person (ie: User1)
The second approval level appears to be finished by "User1", but User1 can be one of aproximately 50 people, and do not want to give object write access to so many.
So opted for add a third level of approval and add a TCCompleteTask and assign it to XELSYSADM.
So XELSYSADM now executes all the Provisioning process .
Thank You Very Much.

User as two level approver

Hello all,
I have a problem where user is holds first and second level approval position in hierarchy. Shopping cart with two step approval (WS10000031). Starting condition is that user do not belongs to approver group.
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Hello Pierre,
I am aware of limitations in note 683782, and this is not possible if you are trying to do it manually. But I made it possible via ALE with HR. I do not know if this is bug or feature in the system :o))).
In HR it is possible that user belongs to several positions (based on percentage) and this is correctly transferred to SRM 4.0 (EBP 5.0).
I can even post a picture somewhere if you would like to see or mail it to you. :o)))
We are starting with HR integration which will send positions and users with infotype 0105/0001 to create BPs and EBP users.
For now, with manual org structure, we are using copied users as forwarding agents, but after integration start this will not be possible anymore because all of the settings coming from HR to SRM.
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Two level approval in CCM

hello all,
we would like to have approval of the same item from two different persons (i.e. procurement and financial department) in catalog before publishing.
Is that possible in CCM 1.0? or CCM 2.0?
TIA
Gordan

Hi,
If you want to split approve authorization on different catalog type (01 : procurement and 02: supplier), one way is to duplicate /ccm/catalog_approver role and define in
authorizations:
Cross-application Authorization Objects -> Access Restrictions for Catalog Design Center -> Access Restrictions for Catalog Design Center -> Catalog Type
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Two level workflow approval

Hi Experts,
I am making a workflow which have two level approval , now the problem is that the first level approver is going only to workflow initiator and if I use any other ID it is not working , it just hangs there.
Secondly if I send the first approval to workflow Initiator and it approves it then it hangs with second decision step.
I have made the agent assignment as general task. I have also checked SWU3 and all the things in that are activated.
Kindly help me in this issue.

How are you giving the ID , I mean are you trying to specify the SAP username, if this is the case then try to append US to the user name.
I mean if you like to send the wokritem to User ABCD then the expression should have the below value USABCD

CATS multiple level approval

Hi,
Is there a possibility of having multiple level approval for CATS workflow to be initiated from ESS using Java WD application.
Much Appreciated.
Karthik.

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We have a similar requirement . I have developed a workflow and dummy task to trigger the workflow . But since it is a background task this cannot be maintained in the config.
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2 level approval

hi gurus,
i am developing a workflow wherein there's a 2 level of approval. 2 possible conditions are to be considered. 1, if the requested date and the filed data falls on the same day, it should be approved by a sup and a manager. if the request is more than 1 day from the filed date, then it will only be approved by sup.
im thinking of creating conditions to check if the created date is the same as the requested date and create a task under it for sup approval. im having a hard time now inserting the task for the manager. can anyone help me? any suggestions?
thanks!

Hi,
Write your conditions in a custom method or in a virtual attribute and based on that set a flag.
Now check for this flag.
Say for condition '1', your flag value is blank, then design your workflow for two level approval (Call Subworkflow 1).
For condition '2', your flag value is "X', then design your workflow for single level approval (Call Subworkflow 2).
Make use of subworkflows to minimize the no. of steps to be used in workflow.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Raj

Determining second level approver for travel expense claim workflow

Hi Experts...
In Travel Expense claim workflow,we are using two level Approval.The employee has to enter his data for expense claim through ESS..Then expense claim is submitted and sent via workflow to the Travel department. Travel Dept verifies the expenses against the bill and approves the claim by selecting the next level approver and attaching the scanned copies of the bill.
I made copy from the standard workflow WS20000040.
How can i select the next level appover in first level approval step???
Is there any FM or BAPI or BADI???
Please help me ...
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Hemalatha.

Hi Hemalatha,
I have small tricky workaround to find out the second level of approver.The Standard Rule available can reused again by passing manager's Position.i.e
After first level completed , store manager position in container variable and pass it to the same task rule so the task is sent to the manager's approver .
Message me if needed more details.
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Second level Approver Missing

Hi..
As per the approval matrix 25000-50000 is two level approval is required..
But at the user end at the time if raising SC in Approval Preview only 1st level Approver is visible second level is not present.
I hav checked Approval Matrix its Correct...i have uploaded it again.. still not showing second level..
Regards,
Neha

Hey the only basic problem I can see with that is already written over there.
IS SECOND LEVEL -- Response Tab -- For FALSE - Task to Generate -- nothing (Status R).
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I think you will not be able to change the response to 'C' for this because you have already used this 'Task Response' for some tasks. What you can do for this is -
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You should be done.
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Invoice Parking - 2 Level Approval Workflow not working

Hi,
I am having trouble making the two level approval work for invoice parking functionality. I have maintained Release Level = 2 and Sub w/f = WS10000053.
Rest I have configured as detailed in this link http://www.thesapconsultant.com/2008/09/simple-sap-workflow.html
When i test the above workflow from SWDD it is working fine. i.e., first one user gets the workitem and after he approves/rejects, it is going to second user. This proved that the user assignment i have maintained is correct.
But when I park the invoice (using "Save As Completed" button) using FV60, it only going to one user. After he/she approves/rejects it is not going anywhere. I checked in SWI1 transaction where no open tasks (error or hanged etc) are seen.
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Dear Rachit,
There is a dedicated forum for Workflow i.e. SAP Business Workflow
Post your thread there, you will get fast response.
I can suggest you one thing check the agent assignment is done or not
Regards,
Chandra

Multi Level Approval Workflow in OIM 11g R2

Hi everyone,
I want to develope a two level approval workflow in OIM 11g R2.
When I intent to provisioning a resource or an entitlement, this workflow will be executed.
This workflow is two level (serial approval)
First approver is manager of user, second approver is a custom group.
Is there any sample workflow like this?
How can I develope this?
Thanks.
Best Regards.

Hi, you can find the same in oracle assets link.
Download the guide for 11GR2.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/id-mgmt/overview/workflow-development-1868162.7z
Thank you,
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Is N level workflow in SRM suitable for BRF rather than the two step approv

Could anybody give some information about N level workflow in SRM abt whether it is more suitable for BRF (business rule framework) for agent determination rather than the two step approval workflow ?

Hi Rita,
BRF is process level configuration. You will have to define a schema and it will be tied to a Business object (say BUS2121). Schema consists different process steps. Each process step can be tied to a work flow (Task id). So, it doesn't matter whether 2 step or N step WF in BRF for the process step. Agent determination will happen regardless.
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