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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=941374522-09112005>Hi
All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=941374522-09112005>My company will soon
be upgrading from SRM 2.0 (EBP 3.5) to SRM 4.0 and I'm planning to redesign our
custom shopping cart approval process at the same time. Our main approval
is based on cost center with the possibility of up to three more
approvals after that. Currently, we use dynamic parallel
processing to send the entire shopping cart to all cost center approvers
(including items with multiple account assigments). It looks like SAP's
Item-Based Approval might work for us, but one concern I have is if it
can handle items with multiple account assignments. Does anyone know
if the Badi can be programmed to have a single item sent
to multiple approvers? From everything I've read, it
appears everything has to be done through the Badi since
the item-based and n-level workflows can't be copied then modified
like past standard workflows. Is that correct?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=941374522-09112005>While I'm at it,
I'll throw this one out too (in case I don't use the item-based
approval). I have a function to look up the cost center approver(s)
from a custom table. Is it more efficient to call this function from a
object attribute or from a rule within the workflow? From reading the
"Practical Workflow" book it appears I would have to add the attribute to a
subtype of AAGENT to maintain ad-hoc approver functionality. Would I
lose that functionality if my function is called from a workflow
rule?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=941374522-09112005>Thanks for your
help,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=941374522-09112005>Ryan</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>