WF Substitutes

[Terrell, Linda M.]

Uli and Peter,
Thank you for your replies.  I am going to suggest that the approvers
maintain more than one substitution.
 
Regards
Linda
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ulrich Mende [SMTP:wug at mende-edv-beratung.de]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:59 PM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: WF Substitutes
>
> Hi Linda,
> we had the same problem in our workflows at a television company.
> WF does not support chains of substitutions by design.
> We managed this by maintaining more then 1 (direct) subtitution for each
> person, hoping that at least one of them will be at work.
> If still a workitem is not completed because all approvers are out of
> office, we send it to the next approver after 2 working days
> (escalation).
>
> Best regards Uli