Substitution questions

[Nat 4 Govender]

In our substitution workflow we create a new profile of the who is going to
be substitute called Z:and the user ID, eg Z:NAT and this new profile is
added to the substitute for the period of the substitution.
 
Regards
Nat Govender
Toyota South Africa
SAP Support  - SAP Workflow
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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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