<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello Ramki , </div><div>Thank You for your response . </div><div><br></div><div>Is there a way through coding/customization , to create decision sets at item level so that for example when the line item 1 is approved , it does not have to wait for item 2 ? . Basically , what I am looking for is , item 1 status should be changed to "Approved" so that follow-on documents will be created.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Or Shall I use any BAPI to change the status or write custom method to change the item's system status to "approved " ?.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york,
times, serif;font-size:12pt">Any ideas or suggestions welcome. </div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks,<br>Raja</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">248 910 0604 Cell</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ramki Maley <rmaley@erpworkflow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SAP Workflow Users' Group <sap-wug@mit.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, April 3, 2011 5:07:01 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: BRF Workflow - SRM Shopping Cart Approval at item level<br></font><br>
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Raja,<br>
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What you are experiencing in both cases is standard system behavior.
Please see the SAP documentation for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/2c/2ecf5596524af59d454ee6f1684b4d/content.htm">Decision
Sets</a>. <br>
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Regards,<br>
Ramki. <br>
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On 4/2/11 8:38 PM, Raja wrote:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/2c/2ecf5596524af59d454ee6f1684b4d/content.htm"></a>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Hello
Experts ,</font>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">We are using SRM 7.01 and SP Level3 . </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">We are in the process of implementing
Shopping Cart Approval at item level using Business
Rule Framework using </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">Process Controlled Schema
evaluation . </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> I have used the BADI implementation
/SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER and methods </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">/SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID
and
/SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_AREA_TO_ITEM_MAP </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">to create area GUID and map it to the item.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Problems I am facing :</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Scenario 1 : For example SC got two
items ; item 1 requires two level of approval and
item 2 requires 3 level of </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">approval . Item 1 is approved by
both the levels and item 2 needs 3rd level
approval.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">What is happening here is , line item 1 is
also in the waiting approval status, technically
item should go to "Approved" ,</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">but the SC is waiting for item 2
to be approved by 3 rd level . Then the SC status is
changed to "Approved". </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Scenario 2 : For example SC got two
items ; item 1 requires two level of approval and
item 2 requires 3 </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">level
of approval . Item 1 is approved by both the levels
and item 2 rejected by 3 rd level . Even in this
case ,</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">the
rejected item needs decision </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;"> from the SC creator , then only
the other item is going for approval.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Basically only one instance of workflow
(WS40000014) is called at for the entore shopping
cart and the approval workitem is created </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">at the n-step approval sub-workflow
(WS40000015 and WS40000016). In our situation there
should be either multiple instances</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">of WS400000154/WS40000015 should be called
so that every item will be considered as a separate
approval. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I read from SDN that Process Schema's
evaluation is at header level only by default . </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">We have done coding in the item area map
method /BADI and Rule Context to to go for
different approval process </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;">at item level. </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Any ideas and suggestions welcome . I
appreciate your time and effort in advance.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Note : I am willing to share my code if
anybody wants to have a look at to provide
suggestion.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Raja Mahamani</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">248 910 0604</font></div>
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