Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems

[prasath natesan]

Hi Claude,
Thanks for all those inputs.
One more doubt. Do you know where is the content(message content) for
the rejection mail stored?

Thanks & Regards,
Prasath N

On 10/4/06, Claude Bourque <cbourque at bank-banque-canada.ca> wrote:
> Prasath,
>
> Honestly, I've never come across it. I've seen SWE_EVENT_CREATE several
> times in the CATS ABAP code but it's used with either CREATED or COMPLETED.
>
> My guess would be that CATS.REJECTED is there in case you write your own
> code.
>
> Claude
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> prasath natesan
> Sent: October 3, 2006 5:05 AM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: Re: Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems
>
>
> Hi,
> Is it possible to use the CATS.REJECTED event? In my case this event is not
> getting triggered in any case. When is this CATS.REJECTED event triggered?
>
> Thanks,
> Prasath N
>
>
> On 9/25/06, Claude Bourque <cbourque at bank-banque-canada.ca> wrote:
>
> 	Prasath,
> 	
> 	We build a custom utility for 2 reasons. Reason 1: CATS.COMPLETED wouldn't
> work because, CATS behaves differently than other workflows. Everytime an
> employee enters a timesheet record, the entry gets attached to the existing
> outstanding work item for that employee. So until a manager has approved all
> records, an employee can keep adding to the work item. Since in some cases
> completion took several weeks, we decided to create a utility that is run
> nightly that creates an event to trigger a send email workflow. Reason 2:
> Although CATS.REJECTED would work, we needed an email for approval as well
> as rejection. So, again the utility does the trick.
> 	
> 	We've been using it for 2 weeks and so far so good.
> 	
> 	Regards,
> 	
> 	
> 	Claude Bourque
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Kjetil Kilhavn
> 	Sent: September 25, 2006 2:01 AM
> 	To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> 	
> 	Subject: RE: Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	You don't write what version you are on, but assuming you're not on a
> version with extended notifications (that would have to be 6.x as far as I
> know) I think the notification via RSWUWFML2 is your best choice for the
> manager.
> 	
> 	Why don't you use CATS.REJECTED as triggering event for your other
> solution? I'm not familiar with the standard approval solution for time
> sheets, so perhaps your answer is "because that event is not triggered" -
> but looking at BOR object type CATS it seems an obvious choice :-)
> 	
> 	Looking at program RCATSB01 in our system I see there is a selection screen
> option to send notification of rejection. Unfortunately the parameter MAIL
> in function module CATS_DISPLAY_LIST which is called by the program is not
> referenced in the function module's ABAP code. An OSS message to SAP to see
> if you receive the standard answer "this is not an error" is perhaps in
> place.
> 	--
> 	Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil OFT GBS BAS DEV SAP
> 	
> 	
> 	
>
>   _____
>
> 		From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu
> <mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu> ] On Behalf Of prasath natesan
> 		Sent: 25. september 2006 06:43
> 		To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> 		Subject: Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems
> 		
> 		
> 		
> 		Hi,
> 		We use approval task TS20000460(approval by superior) for approval of CATS
> submitted by an employee. This task sends a mail back to the employee if the
> Approval is rejected by the superior. We have 2 more requirements for this
> case as follows,
> 		
> 		1. The initiator should receive an e-mail notification when the CATS
> submitted by him is approved by the manager.
> 		
> 		For this i have tried to create a custom workflow with a sendmail step. I
> have assigned CATS-COMPLETED event as the triggering event for this
> workflow. The problem is this event is triggered in both the cases i.e when
> the workitem is either Approved or Rejected. I need this workflow to be
> triggered only in cases of Approval. I also could not find any container
> elements which shows the status as Aprpoved/Rejected.
> 		
> 		2. The Approver should receive a notification in his inbox whenever the
> employee submits the time sheets asking him to approve the pending time
> sheets weekly.
> 		
> 		For this i think i might be able to use the report RSWUWFML2 and schedule
> it on a certain time period to check for pending workitems of task
> TS20000460 and send notifications. But havent yet tried on this. Is there a
> better way to do this? Any tables that get updated based on this?
> 		
> 		we are at ECC5.0 with EP6.0
> 		
> 		Any help on the above queries will be of great use.
> 		Thanks in advance for any help provided.
> 		
> 		Prasath N
> 		
>
> 	
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