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color=#0000ff>Thanks for the responses. To answer your question Mike,
there is document simulation that runs to check the invoice before
posting. If there are any errors we do not attempt to post the invoice and
use advance with dialog to immediately display the errors to the user.
Setting t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=150050021-05062007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>he payment block is a part of this simulation step and needs to
happen before posting so that the user can review.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>We have developed a work around that we think will be
acceptable. It will break advance with dialog for a very small percentage
of work items but we somehow got the users to agree.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=150050021-05062007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Thanks for the help!!!</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Edward
Diehl<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> SAP Workflow
Users' Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Payment Block On Vendor
Invoice<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>You could perhaps use a Secondary Method type AFTER, but I'm not sure
that is executed by WF-BATCH. You might check that out.<BR><BR><BR>>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:44:33 +0100<BR>> Subject: Re: Payment Block On
Vendor Invoice<BR>> From: asap@workflowconnections.com<BR>> To:
sap-wug@mit.edu<BR>> <BR>> Hi Seth,<BR>> <BR>> Let me get this
right: is the posting also done in dialog? So if they have<BR>> auth to post
then why not give auth to change? Or else could you not do a<BR>> background
step after all the advance with dialog stuff?<BR>> <BR>> Otherwise fire an
event and do a background update asynchronously in a<BR>> separate
task.<BR>> <BR>> Cheers,<BR>> Mike<BR>> <BR>> On Tue, June 5,
2007 4:32 pm, Stevens, Seth wrote:<BR>> > All,<BR>> ><BR>> >
Does anyone have any suggestions for the below scenario? We have a<BR>> >
workflow used for approving and posting FI vendor invoices. Before the<BR>>
> workflow posts the document we need to, possibly, set a payment block
on<BR>> > the invoice based on some business rules.<BR>> ><BR>>
> We have written a call transaction to set the block; however, in
most<BR>> > cases the user does not have edit access so the call
transaction won't<BR>> > work if running under the user's ID. We cannot
set this as a background<BR>> > task because there is a requirement to
have advance with dialog. I<BR>> > cannot find a function module to
accomplish this and obviously didn't<BR>> > want to do a direct table
update.<BR>> ><BR>> > Any help or ideas would be greatly
appreciated!<BR>> ><BR>> > Thanks,<BR>> > Seth<BR>>
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