Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition

[Hilsbos, Margaret A]

Hi Larry,
 
Thanks for your suggestion.
 
We're even. I'm not sure if I understand where I would apply this call function. (I know just enough ABAP to write simple workflow methods when I absolutely have to, and I'm not exactly expert at workflow either  - yet :-)  )
 
Can this be called when the user saves the purchase req? If so how does the selected value get passed to the workflow?
 
If the workflow is already running, in 4.6c I think I can use the "choose agent" wizard.  My problem is that I need the initiator to immediately choose the agent, and I can't get a popup on the first step because workflow just doesn't seem to know how to do that.
 
If this function can be called on save and then pass the value to the workflow, then I'm home free.  I just need a little clarification on how to make the connections.
 
Thanks,
 
Margaret
 
 

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Subject: RE: Present pop-up to user on save of purchase requisition



Hi Margaret:

I am not sure if I understand your problem, but if you want a pop up to let the user select an approver, you can use function  'MC_POPUP_TO_MARK_VALUES'. 

CALL FUNCTION 'MC_POPUP_TO_MARK_VALUES'

 EXPORTING

   I_MAX_MARKED_VALUES        = 1

   I_MIN_MARKED_VALUES        = 1

   I_POPUP_TITLE              = 'Please choose your approver'

  TABLES

    T_VALUES_FOR_MARKING       = MARKED_VALUES

 EXCEPTIONS

   CANCEL_PUSHED              = 1

   OTHERS                     = 2.

 

First you pass your candidates in the table MARKED_VALUES. The you get the selected approver by READ TABLE MARKED_VALUES WITH KEY MARKED = 'X'.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Larry Hu

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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 10:18 AM
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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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