Thank you everyone for your responses. Yes, we figured it out. The 3 steps mentioned by Prakashreddy Sabbu below is what we'll have to do. The only problem is that when the approver clicks on the approve link, it automatically creates a response email, and then he has to click on 'Send' which leaves the content of the email editable, which is a risk.<div>
<br></div><div>If someone has HTML code ( we don't have a PHP interface, else it could have been solved easily) for sending the response email automatically, i.e. without the approver to click on the 'Send' button, please share or any pointers to achieve this would help.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks & Regards,</div><div>Snehal<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Prakashreddy Sabbu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prakashreddy.sabbu@mytecsoft.com" target="_blank">prakashreddy.sabbu@mytecsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi, </div><div>We did this too, but my client doesn't even liked to click the hyper link to say approve or reject as they use different devices sometimes. We achieved this with 3 steps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. User have to reply the notification email ('RE:' should not change) with their decision.</div><div><br></div><div>2. They have to simply reply using words Approve or Reject (we considered only first letter in the word).</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. They reply to mail id which is maintained in SCOT to process the mail body to know their decision and use function module to run the decision in the background.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div>
<div class="h5"><div><br>On 04-Feb-2013, at 6:51 PM, "Sharath K" <<a href="mailto:ksharath77@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ksharath77@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<div><span>This can be acheived with some HTML and SAP-ABAP <var></var>porgramming.</span></div>
<div><span>On task execution an email should be sent to approver with a link to approve- On approval click, we trigger an custom event(RFC Function call) which should be used to continue the approval workflow.</span><span>Approver dont need logon to the system we can use some RFC user to connect to SAP. It is not completely offline..Approver has to be connected to network.</span></div>
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<div><span>We implemented this solution for some of clients..in R/3 (4.7 Enterprise). It needs some HTML skills and quite some ABAP programming...</span></div>
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</div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b> Snehal Kutumbale <<a href="mailto:snehal.kutumbale@gmail.com" target="_blank">snehal.kutumbale@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b> SAP Workflow Users' Group <<a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu" target="_blank">sap-wug@mit.edu</a>> <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:01 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Subject:</span></b> Offline Approval to ECC via Outlook<br></font></div><br>
<div>Hello Everyone,
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<div>There are lot of discussions about the Outlook integration with SAP. Our requirement is the workitems of ECC should be sent to outlook(PR release workitems) and approvers should be able to approve it without logging into SAP. </div>
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<div>So, extended notifications is not an option here as it requires a log-in into ECC system.</div>
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<div>Is there no other option available without installing additional components like DUET etc to achieve this functionality?<br>
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<div>Thanks & Regards,</div>
<div>Snehal</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>SAP-WUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SAP-WUG@mit.edu" target="_blank">SAP-WUG@mit.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug" target="_blank">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug</a><br>
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