LIV - Method to release invoice in background

Wed Oct 8 22:31:22 EDT 2003

Thanks for clarifying that.

It seems that what I want to do is different from what you are doing; I
want the report to run but with radio button 'Release automatically'
switched on, in the background, within my workflow.

Regards

Cristiana

John Soden <John.Soden at newmont.com.au>
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RM08RELEASE is run within the workflow for manual unblocking when there is
a
variance between PO and IV and supply want to pay as invoiced but they
cant
change the PO to effect the 3 way match.

It also runs outside the workflow in auto mode via a background job to
unblock any invoices where GRs have been entered, the PO has been changed
or
a credit raised to effect the 3 way match - when the invoice is released
any
outstanding workflow items are cancelled

-----Original Message-----
From: Cristiana D'Agosto [mailto:cristiana.dagosto at au1.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2003 9:55 AM
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Hello John,

do you run RM08RELEASE within your workflow? That's where I am having
problems. I want to call RM08RELEASE from a bakground method and I have
been
able to do so. I mean, the report runs but the output is still displayed
on
the screen; I wanted the report to run and then, in a later step, I will
check an attribute in my object type to verify if the invoice is still
blocked or not.

Regards

Cristiana

John Soden <John.Soden at newmont.com.au>
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I've just set up an invoice block workflow - part of the process is to run
RM08RELEASE in background nightly (auto mode) to unblock any invoices that
block only because the GR was missing, if there is a variance between PO
line
GR and IV, a workflow item goes to supply, if they can't fix it, they send
it
on to accounts to raise a credit or to the AP super to unblock manually if
they want to accept the difference (uses a method that calls RM08RELEASE
in
manual mode with the invoice number) . If supply can fix it by changing
the
PO, the block will be removed the following night.

Hope this helps
Cheers john

-----Original Message-----
From: Cristiana D'Agosto [mailto:cristiana.dagosto at au1.ibm.com]
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Subject: Re: LIV - Method to release invoice in background

Thanks Eric,

at least now I know what SingleRelease is used for! I thought it would do
the
same thing as RM08RELEASE does, and it would only release the FI doc if
the
block could have been removed from MM.

Not sure how I will execute the report (RM08RELEASE) in the background
though, I was hoping somehwere else in the group would have done that
before!

Regards

Cristiana

eric.esten at philips.com
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Hi Christiana,

Just finished a course on SAP Workflow and tried also
BUS2081.SingleRelease
for releasing the invoice. As you know in the Logistic Invoice
Verification
you both get a MM- and FI document in the system.

In my workflow I saw that the FI document is released with SingleRelease
while the MM document remains blocked, which of course is not correct. I
didn't manage to unblock the MM document with this method.

The old invoice verification is worked out pretty good in SAP Workflow
while
the 'new' LIV still needs a lot of improvement.

Kind regards,

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G'day all,

we are in 4.6c

I am building a workflow to handle MM invoices blocked for quantity
reasons.

The workflow will send a work item to someone and after this someone
executes
one of the options the next step is to run report RM08RELEASE (Release
Blocked Invoices - transaction code MRBR) in the background for the
relevant
invoice number and setting radio button 'Release automatically'.

Not being very successful!

I am still figuring out what method BUS2081.ReleaseSingle does? Maybe it
does
what I am trying to do?

I wrote a little method that looks like this:

SUBMIT RM08RELEASE
    WITH SO_BUKRS-LOW = '1000'
    WITH SO_BELNR-LOW = object-key-invoicedocnumber
    WITH  SO_GJAHR-LOW = object-key-fiscalyear
   WITH PA_XMANU = ''
   WITH PA_XAUTO = 'X'
    EXPORTING LIST TO MEMORY
   AND RETURN.

The report runs okay but it does show me the output screen (e.g 'Blocking
reasons deleted in 0 lines' message is displayed in the bottom of the
screen), and I would like to avoid that (that's why I used EXPORTING LIST
TO
MEMORY). I just want to run the report for that invoice and later in my
workflow I will check if the block was removed or not.

Any other ideas?

Thanks and regards

Cristiana

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