SRM 4.0 Item-Based Approval Levels Limited to 3?

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Ryan,
 
Sounds like you need to read a couple more SAP notes and read the fine
print a little more carefully. 
 
ITEM_APPROVAL_OBJ  can use any criteria you care to use - its up to you
to keep the relationship going which
you can always do via your own custom table,  e.g. you set a "key id",
"key value" of your own choosing - that key value 
could be a look up key to your own custom table, rather than an SAP
field value.    Item_approval_obj is just using the key ids/values 
to reliably hold which items belong to which approval object - it
doesn't care whether the id or values are real SAP fields or not. 
 
The absolutely no gaps requirement is obsolete.  If you read some of the
other notes in the same area the gap situation is now handled. 
 

Regards, 
Jocelyn Dart 
Senior Consultant 
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Seko, Ryan
Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2005 5:49 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: SRM 4.0 Item-Based Approval Levels Limited to 3?


I've been reviewing the functionality of the item-based approval for
shopping carts and a couple of things aren't clear to me:
 
1.  I noticed that the ITEM_APPROVAL_OBJ parameter (Assignment of
Approval Objects to Approval Criteria) for badi BBP_WFL_APPROV_BADI only
allows for 3 criteria.  So unlike the n-level workflow, is the
item-based workflow limited to only 3 levels or am I missing something?
 
2.  At the end of the IMG documentation for the badi it states, "Note
that there must be absolutely no gaps in the approval steps and that
approvers must be defined for every step."  This seems contradictory to
some of the other documentation I've been reading.  In my scenario, all
items would require an approval at the first level, but for the second
and third levels only some or possibly none of the items may require an
approval.  So in a case where only a first level and third level
approval is required, the item-based workflow won't work?
 
Thanks for your help,
Ryan
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