Excluded Agent is the only Selected Agent

[Soady, Phil]

Hi Jim,
 
Exclusion is aimed at preventing the wrong/invalid person executing an item.
Ie the initiator should not approve their own documents.
 
If you can determine that someone has already approved an Object/Document.
Then either just remove them via ROLE Resolution function from the list of selected
agents, or if appropriate treat the document as "approved" and move on.
 
Perhaps the workflow should never have been created ?
 
hth
 
Phil Soady
Senior Consultant
Business Technologies
SAP Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-DS/DM [mailto:Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com]
Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 5:30 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Excluded Agent is the only Selected Agent
 
 
Technically: have the agent determination performed in a separate step (background task), then skip if no-one found.
 
Business-wise: is the skipping the desired solution? [it could be, but I have to ask :-) ]
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Sauceman [mailto:sauceman at tennessee.edu]
Sent: Friday,15. November 2002 17:08
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Excluded Agent is the only Selected Agent
 
 
I have a problem with my use of the Excluded Agent feature. Our accounting transactions (Parked Documents - FIPP Object) are routed for release/approval first to the appropriate Department Head (via a Workflow Standard Role) and then to the appropriate Dean (again via a Workflow Standard Role). If
the Dean is the Acting Department Head and has already approved the transaction, I do not want him/her to have to approve it again. Therefore, I thought by declaring all previous approvers as Excluded Agents, the work item would not be created or would be created and go away. However, when the only
Selected Agent is an Excluded Agent, the work item seems to hang; it never goes to any agent nor does the workflow continue. I would prefer it to be marked "Complete" and the workflow continue to the next step or be skipped altogether. What is the best way to accomplish this?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Jim Sauceman ......................  <mailto:sauceman at tennessee.edu> sauceman at tennessee.edu University of Tennessee ........... Voice: (865) 974-2448 OIT Computer System Services ...... Fax: (865) 974-4810 Manager of Campus Database Administration Project IRIS Workflow Team Leader