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<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Mark,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks
for the suggestion but yes, we considered that and discarded
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Our
customers are very sensitive to "solutions" that seem to them to require
more effort than their current approach (which is just to send an email to the
first approver, and they "just know" who that is based on the requester ).
The approvers don't want to receive emails for purchase reqs that are irrelevant
to them, and if we stop the workflow until the initiator realizes they
actually need to execute that work item to choose the agent, it will slow down
the process.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
reality it would NOT be that bad, and overall the workflow would be an
improvement on the current process. But I don't expect that I could sell
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For
what it's worth, whenever I've suggested this "express" first item solution on
similar problems, the response is a grimace. Maybe I just need to
learn better sales skills?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So
thanks but .... :-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=550570121-27032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Margaret</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark Pyc<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:34 PM<BR><B>To:</B> SAP Workflow Users'
Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase
requisition<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>G'day Margaret,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Have you considered the use of a "Priority 1" manual agent selection
as the initial step. Depending on your system settings around such
notifications this will mean that once the user saves the requisition the next
dialog interaction (hitting enter for example) will present a pop-up telling
them to execute the workitem. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I've dealt with something similar before. It's not perfect but it's a
reasonably cheap solution. The user can still ignore the pop-up but at least
you've prompted them. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Be aware that things can affect the visibility of the pop-ups
(auto-forwarding for example), although I can't remember all the
details.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Have fun,</DIV>
<DIV>Mark<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 3/24/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Hilsbos,
Margaret A</B> <<A
href="mailto:Margaret.Hilsbos@dayzim.com">Margaret.Hilsbos@dayzim.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello
WUGers,<BR><BR>We are looking at implementing the purchase requisition
workflow in a 4.6c system. We are struggling with the logic for
selecting the first approver in the release strategy. We have one person who
creates requisitions for several departments, and currently they just email
the appropriate approver. If we use the standard rule with the
IMG configuration to assign the approvers, the closest we can get is to
assign the security role for the release code -- which returns too many
agents. The user exit doesn't seem to help because there is no
value in the purchase requisition that can be used to determine the correct
recipient, which is based on the requester, not the requisition
creator. The "requester" field doesn't help because that is a
free text field (although only 12 characters). If that field required a SAP
user id then we could use that to derive the correct recipient.
<BR><BR>After studying this I think it would be ideal if we could present
the creator of the requisition with a "choose agent" dialog when they save
the requisition. However here is a stumbling block -<BR><BR>How to get the
dialog presented to the user when the purchase requisition is saved? I
believe workflow doesn't do this, even if the first step is marked "advance
with dialog". This general question keeps coming up in other contexts,
too. I searched SDN forum and WUG archives with no luck, except
to find "it can't be done without a custom transaction" - is that
still the case? <BR><BR>Does anyone have any other recommendations for the
purchase requisition question? Am I (hopefully) missing
something obvious?<BR><BR>Any suggestions appreciated!<BR><BR><BR>Margaret
Hilsbos<BR>Day & Zimmermann
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