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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HI Snehal,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">SRM has a standard provided example of this sort of offline approval using mail. So if you have access to SRM you might like to take a look at the relevant
program. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">BTW you could use Extended Notifications to generate and send the mail – which is the job of Extended Notifications - but you would need to create a custom
handler for your notification to swap the standard hyperlinks for your approve/reject hyperlinks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Even with XML you need to logon somehow to send data into the system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’d be curious to know if anyone is using web activities. I haven’t heard of it so far.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jocelyn
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Snehal Kutumbale<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 26 January 2013 11:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David G Cooper<br>
<b>Cc:</b> sap-wug@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Offline Approval to ECC via Outlook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had a look at the web-activity step in the workflow, as we are trying to build offline email approval in ECC, without connecting to SAP. (So extended notification doesn't work).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As per documents, the web--activity sends an XML document to the specified URL and can wait for response. Can it also send the XML document to the specified email address?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Snehal<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:30 PM, David G Cooper <<a href="mailto:davidgcooper06@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidgcooper06@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Hi Snehal,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Based on the requirements listed I would look into the Webflow inbound communication options. I have read about this some time back but cannot remember the specifics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Basically you need to provide in the Email HTML buttons that send an email/message back to the Webflow engine. The webflow engine then instantiates a workflow based on the contents of the email/message and takes the appropriate actions. It may be better
to use a SOAP message rather than email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Remember that email is a store and forward mechanism and SAP has no way of removing a message from the recipients list in outlook once actioned. This is where DUET excels as it has full integration to the SAP workflow/Webflow interfaces.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#888888">David Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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