LIV - Method to release invoice in background
Kjetil Kilhavn
kjetilk at statoil.com
Tue Oct 14 07:29:57 EDT 2003
Sorry about not replying before, but you have received a lot of input from
others. It looks like you want to do something similar to what we wanted
here, although the blocking reason is different (we blocked due to missing
purchase order).
As has been mentioned - if you can remove the block reason everything will
work fine. However, if you can't remove the reason you have to release it
manually and in foreground. The program does not work in the background for
manual releases, not even if you try to use batch input to select all
entries and execute the release. I spent quite a bit of time trying to
solve this, but in the end the business decided to forget the LIV invoices
and just perform a release of the FI document (where SAP has a working
workflow which releases the document in the background). So now we have
thousands of cases where the LIV invoice is blocked while the corresponding
FI document is unblocked. Some day we will have to start archiving, and we
don't know if this will cause any problems then.
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Kjetil Kilhavn
"Cristiana D'Agosto"
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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]
Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2003 8:16 AM
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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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"Cristiana D'Agosto" <cristiana.dagosto at au1.ibm.com>
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Subject: LIV - Method to release invoice in background
Classification:
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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