Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems

[vijay srikanth]

Hi Guys,

Doesn't this CATS have any change document object, with which a workflow 
event can be linked?

Regards,
Vijay

>From: "Claude Bourque" <cbourque at bank-banque-canada.ca>
>Reply-To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>Subject: RE: Send mail for CATS Approval and pending workitems
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:45:51 -0400
>
>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]
>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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