Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition

[Hilsbos, Margaret A]

Okay, thanks. We are trying to allow the user to limit the agents to the correct one(s).

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Stoicof, Dan
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:06 AM
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Subject: RE: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition


We are sending the work item to all agents.

Dan Stoicof
SAP Workflow/ABAP Team
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Hilsbos, Margaret A
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:59 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition


Dan,

Thanks for the suggestion. Did you have the requisition creator select from the possible agents or did you just send the work item to all possible agents? 

Margaret

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Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:40 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition


What we did was create an internal table with possible agents and as a first step, ran a method to retrieve these agents.

Dan Stoicof
SAP Workflow/ABAP Team
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Hilsbos, Margaret A
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:18 AM
To: SAP-WUG (E-mail)
Subject: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition


Hello WUGers,

We are looking at implementing the purchase requisition workflow in a 4.6c system.  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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