Workflow Question

Wed Jan 23 04:44:03 EST 2008

Excluded Agents are maintained in the workflow step. You just pass in a
container element containing the list of agents to be excluded.  Good
luck. 

Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
Senior Consultant
SAP Australia Pty Ltd.
Level 1/168 Walker St.
North Sydney 
NSW, 2060
Australia
T   +61 412 390 267
M   + 61 412 390 267
E   jocelyn.dart at sap.com
http://www.sap.com

The information contained in or attached to this electronic transmission
is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for
the person or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any distribution,
copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this
electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly
prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error,
please immediately contact the sender to arrange for the return of the
original documents. 
Electronic transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure and
accordingly, the sender does not accept liability for any such data
corruption, interception, unauthorized amendment, viruses, delays or the
consequences thereof.
Any views expressed in this electronic transmission are those of the
individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the
sender is authorized to state them to be the views of SAP AG or any of
its subsidiaries. SAP AG, its subsidiaries, and their directors,
officers and employees make no representation nor accept any liability
for the accuracy or completeness of the views or information contained
herein. Please be aware that the furnishing of any pricing information/
business proposal herein is indicative only, is subject to change and
shall not be construed as an offer or as constituting a binding
agreement on the part of SAP AG or any of its subsidiaries to enter into
any relationship, unless otherwise expressly stated. 

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Fonseca, Ralph
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 3:14 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Workflow Question

Thanks Jocelyn,

Sorry... I'm not a WFL Admin, just the SAP Purchasing guy (we have no
WFL admin!! ;-/). 

I currently have a user assigned to multiple positions only when the
positions are sequential in the hierarchy (e.g. buyer who can also
approve as manager). 

What I need is to have a buyer who will be creating PO's for two
different purchasing groups that have completely different approvers
(managers). So this Buyer will be assigned to two positions that point
to separate approvers after the PO is created. The Buyer is only
creating the PO's. I want to ensure that the workflows are routed to the
correct approvers. 

I will look into using excluded agents. Is there a transaction that is
used to maintain this? 

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:39 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Workflow Question

Hi Ralph, 

Don't know where you are getting your information from but obviously NOT
a good source. 
Absolutley no problem with assigning a user to two positions at all for
this scenario.  

Only questions are:
a) Do you want them to be able to approve at both levels for the exact
same PO - or must there be two separate people approving the PO?  If the
first - do nothing, if the second use Excluded Agents to prevent the
first approver from also being the second approver. 

b) Do you want to condense the two approvals into one step when this
user approves? If yes you need to model this in your workflow flowchart.

Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
Senior Consultant
SAP Australia Pty Ltd.
Level 1/168 Walker St.
North Sydney 
NSW, 2060
Australia
T   +61 412 390 267
M   + 61 412 390 267
E   jocelyn.dart at sap.com
http://www.sap.com

The information contained in or attached to this electronic transmission
is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for
the person or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any distribution,
copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this
electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly
prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error,
please immediately contact the sender to arrange for the return of the
original documents. 
Electronic transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure and
accordingly, the sender does not accept liability for any such data
corruption, interception, unauthorized amendment, viruses, delays or the
consequences thereof.
Any views expressed in this electronic transmission are those of the
individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the
sender is authorized to state them to be the views of SAP AG or any of
its subsidiaries. SAP AG, its subsidiaries, and their directors,
officers and employees make no representation nor accept any liability
for the accuracy or completeness of the views or information contained
herein. Please be aware that the furnishing of any pricing information/
business proposal herein is indicative only, is subject to change and
shall not be construed as an offer or as constituting a binding
agreement on the part of SAP AG or any of its subsidiaries to enter into
any relationship, unless otherwise expressly stated. 

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Fonseca, Ralph
Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 5:24 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: Workflow Question

Hi
I have a request from the business and I'm not sure if this can be done
in SAP Workflow.

We do all of our Marketing PO Approvals via workflow. We have a user
that needs to be assigned to two different Marketing Groups within the
Org Structure. Each group has it's own approval hierarchy for Mgr,
Director, VP and SVP. So each of these positions points to a different
Mgr etc. EVP is the same for both groups.

My understanding is that a user cannot be assigned to multiple positions
unless they are in the same approval cycle because the wfl routings
conflict????

Is there a way for a user to be assigned to two different groups with
their own approval cycle (Mgr, VP etc)? Both groups roll up to one
position at the Executive VP level. All positions below this are
different for these two groups.

Thanks in advance, 

RJ

_______________________________________________
SAP-WUG mailing list
SAP-WUG at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug

_______________________________________________
SAP-WUG mailing list
SAP-WUG at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug

_______________________________________________
SAP-WUG mailing list
SAP-WUG at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug