Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition

[Mark Pyc]

G'day Margaret,

Have you considered the use of a "Priority 1" manual agent selection as
the initial step. Depending on your system settings around such
notifications this will mean that once the user saves the requisition the
next dialog interaction (hitting enter for example) will present a pop-up
telling them to execute the workitem.

I've dealt with something similar before. It's not perfect but it's a
reasonably cheap solution. The user can still ignore the pop-up but at least
you've prompted them.

Be aware that things can affect the visibility of the pop-ups
(auto-forwarding for example), although I can't remember all the details.

Have fun,
Mark


On 3/24/06, Hilsbos, Margaret A <Margaret.Hilsbos at dayzim.com> wrote:
>
> Hello WUGers,
>
> We are looking at implementing the purchase requisition workflow in a 4.6csystem.  We are struggling with the logic for selecting the first approver
> in the release strategy. We have one person who creates requisitions for
> several departments, and currently they just email the appropriate
> approver.  If we use the standard rule with the IMG configuration to assign
> the approvers, the closest we can get is to assign the security role for the
> release code -- which returns too many agents.   The user exit doesn't seem
> to help because there is no value in the purchase requisition that can be
> used to determine the correct recipient, which is based on the requester,
> not the requisition creator.  The "requester" field doesn't help because
> that is a free text field (although only 12 characters). If that field
> required a SAP user id then we could use that to derive the correct
> recipient.
>
> After studying this I think it would be ideal if we could present the
> creator of the requisition with a "choose agent" dialog when they save the
> requisition. However here is a stumbling block -
>
> How to get the dialog presented to the user when the purchase requisition
> is saved? I believe workflow doesn't do this, even if the first step is
> marked "advance with dialog". This general question keeps coming up in other
> contexts, too.  I searched SDN forum and WUG archives with no luck, except
> to find "it can't be done without a custom transaction" -  is that still the
> case?
>
> Does anyone have any other recommendations for the purchase requisition
> question?   Am I (hopefully) missing something obvious?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated!
>
>
> Margaret Hilsbos
> Day & Zimmermann
>
>
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