SRM Badi N-step

[Susan R. Keohan]

Thank you Paul, Miguel,

It was too much to hope for that the functionality would be there 'out of the box'.  However, it 
still seems possible (without knowing anything about the 'approval applet') to parse the 
ApproverList container table into distinct approver lists, with appropriate number of branches 
specified in the Miscellaneous tab.  So this would not really be using the standard, delivered WFs, 
but a variation of same.

Is the approval applet a roadblock to using this type of functionality in a custom workflow, using 
dynamic parallel table processing ?

Regards,
Sue

Paul Borriello - PAB Consulting wrote:

> Hi All:
>  
> Miguel is correct.  I submitted OSS messages to SAP, on this issue, for 
> my last client.  SAP's response was that it was working as designed.  
> Also, due to the links to the Approval Applet, you can not change the 
> SRM BADI Approval WF's to dynamic parallel processing.  This was an 
> issue because the SRM Approval WF's, were held up at one level,  until 
> all of the approvals at that level were completed. 
> 
> I hope this helps.
>  
> Thanks,
> Paul Borriello
> PAB Consulting, LLC
>  
>  
> */"Adao-Cruz, Miguel" <miguel.adao-cruz at capgemini.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I have never seen something out-of-the-box using parallel branch.
>     When you debug the process, after the! BADI processing, SRM does
>     things with
>     the branch index but I think this is used for the line items display
>     in the
>     approval applet.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
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>     From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Susan R. Keohan
>     Sent: Mon 12/12/2005 16:27
>     To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
>     Subject: SRM Badi N-step
> 
> 
> 
>     Hello all,
> 
>     Can anyone verify that the N-step BAdi (BBP_WFL_APPROV), used in
>     conjunction
>     with the SAP-delivered
>     Shopping Cart Approval W! orkflows (WS14000133, WS14000134) will
>     allow you to
>     accomodate parallel
>     approval branches ? The BAdi allows you to set 'Approval_Branch',
>     but I see
>     nothing in the actual
>     approval task to deal with dynamic parallel table processing. Of course,
>     this would be easy enough
>     to implement... I just wondered if the functionality was there 'out
>     of the
>     box'.
> 
>     Thanks
>     Sue
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Susan R. Keohan
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