Substitution questions

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Partha,
1) Yes you cannot chain substitutes - this is *not* missing functionality - this is for financial delegation/audit/security reasons. I.e. If I substitute my work to someone else, this does *not* in any way imply that I am ok with them sending it on to a 3rd person.
 
2) No - trouble is that its very difficult if not impossible to know in advance what authorisations they are going to need for the underlying transactions/routines that may be called by workflow.  Better approach is to consider who will be substitutes up front in your design, so that either they are peers with similar authorisations, or you build your workflow to cater for possible action by a substitute, e.g. use user decisions (which don't require extra authorisation) and then perform updates in background.
 
Rgds,
Jocelyn
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Chatterjee, Partha (US - San Ramon)
Sent: Wednesday,8 September 2004 11:23 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Substitution questions
 
Hi All,
 
I have looked at the WUG archives and still have a few questions on SAP Inbox substitution functionality:
 
1) Is it still true that chaining substitutes is not recognized ( i.e. A is substitututed to B then B is substituted to C --> however C will not see A's stuff?)  -- The last answer on this subject in the archives was in 2001.
 
2) When someone delegates is there any functionality which will allow authority checks.  For example, I substitute a subordinate for my workitems.  For some of these workitems, the subordinate does not have the underlying authority to execute this transaction even though I intended him to temporarily have such authority.  My understanding is that there is no such check since one cannot know intent and SAP feels the security process is separate.  It would be nice if there were something that informed the mgr during substitution that some of his workitems could not be executed by his subordinate so he could choose someone else or call security etc.  Has anyone else dealt with this issue?
 
Best regards,
Partha
 
 
 
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