Dynamically adding *possible* agents to a task

[ASSY, SOSTHENE]

Hi Nicholas,
 
 
 
*       You can use different roles  168 (for superior) of the staff who is
travelling  etc...
*       You can also create a new role SUPERIOR OF SUPERIOR
 
NB : check if the reporting structure is good.
 
 
Mr. Sosthene Assy
African Development Bank
Tel : 20-20-53-03
 
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>> From: Nicholas Brand [SMTP:nicholas.n.brand at uk.pwcglobal.com]
> Sent: Friday 10 August 2001 16:18
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Dynamically adding *possible* agents to a task
>
> Memo from Nicholas N Brand of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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>
> Hi,
>
> Here's an interesting problem:
>
> I'm building a travel expense approval workflow.
> Up to 3 managers may have to approve a claim.
> We want to restrict the people to whom each manager can forward the
> approval workitem to those managers ahead of him in the approval chain.
> This will obviously vary with each claim.
>
> I've found that the group of users that a workitem can be forwarded to is
> based on the *possible* agents of the task (as opposed to the responsible
> or selected agents).
>
> Here's the question:
> How can I dynamically set the *possible* agents for a task?
>
> I've found various function modules that allow me to set the selected
> agents or to retrieve the possible agents of a task, but not one to *set*
> the possible agents.
>
> Any clues or suggestions either on this approach or an alternative way
> that
> you may have used?
>
> Thank you for you time.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicholas Brand
>
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