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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=004405205-09112005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Ashish, There's a SAP note for this - talking about how
when approval items aren't executed from the inbox, not all of the validation
checks were run. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Have a look in service.sap.com in components SRM-EBP-WFL
and SRM-EBP-SHP with keywords approval and inbox.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ashish
Paranjpe<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 09 November 2005 4:33 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
SAP-WUG@mit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Help needed with the mentioned Shopping cart
approval issue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
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<DIV>I need some help with the following Shopping cart issue:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SRM EBP 3.5 Approval
Workflow.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When the shopping cart approval work
item reaches the approver, the same can be approved in two
ways</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">1)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1> <SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Directly from the inbox of the
approver (by clicking the green tick mark button). </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">2)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1> <SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can approve the shopping cart
from the detail view also. For this one has to enter the detailed view by
clicking the link in the column "Description". One can approve the shopping cart
in the detailed view by selecting the "Approved" or "Rejected" radio button for
each line item and clicking the save button in the view. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In the detail view, If an approver
is trying to save (approve from the detail view) shopping cart for which the
requested date is earlier to the current date, an error message "BBP_PD 244
Requested delivery date cannot be met (item #)" and the approval does not
take place. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But if the same shopping cart is
approved from the approver's inbox by clicking the green tick button, the
shopping cart gets approved and creates follow on documents as the case may be.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What can be done to avoid this
issue.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks in advance,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ashish</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV></BODY></HTML>