WS14000044: avoid loop in Completion workflow usage if all lines not compl

Dear all,
I have a question around the detailed usage of Workflow WS14000044: Completion workflow.
Here is my case:
A requisitioner creates a SC with complete items from catalog and also incomplete one's in free text (because not in his catalogs)
The approval will be a line item cost center approval (n-level line item implemented via BADI).
However prior to this cost center approvals, a purchaser needs to be involved for the incomplete lines being:
- free text
- no price
the reason is that the purchaser has more extended catalogs and will replace some free texts by catalog items not accessible by the requisitioner
or will give a price estimation to be able to have a more accurate cost center approval (which is multilevel and based on the value of the item line).
Then my idea was to use the completion workflow for it.
But my question is as when going to the purchaser this one is not replacing necessarily all the free-texts, then the user receive the changes and validate them and then the standard start conditions of this workflow that include free text evaluation will retrigger this workflow again and again and again.
1)Is this correct?
2) If not why?
3) And what must be the starting condition of the completion workflow and n-level approval workflow to avoid the loop?
Thanks in advance
RD

Thanks for the guidance, but I have additional questions:
0) Based on your answer I suppose you did not implemented it anywhere (in standard)like this? Correct?
1)For the incomplete item flag, you said "This flag is false as soon as you get out of the completion WF." is that always the case or is it only when the Purchaser as set a price?
2) In summary free text item condition for the Completion Workflow is only usefull if you are sure to convert all lines to Catalog items. Correct?
3) Coming to you proposition you loose then the possibility to approve your changes by the user like in completion workflow? Or how do you set-up the n-level approval workflow to have the requisitioner himself involved?
4) Can somebody help to find the FM to find the purchaser of the corresponding PGr?
5) How can I handle in the n-step approval workflow step if I have a purchasing Group with more than 1 purchaser?
Thanks
RD

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