SRM7 ACW - Restart Workflow (WS14500015) for Item Based Approval

[Ramki Maley]

Upon further investigation I have found that no restart is available for 
item based approval by design. Found OSS note 777133 which provides a 
workaround in SRM Server 5nn.

Thanks,
Ramki.




On 12/9/14, 7:49 AM, Ramki Maley wrote:
>
> Hello Wuggers,
>
> We are upgrading from SRM 5.0 to SRM 702 SP10. We had decided to stay 
> with ACW as change capability in item based approval is not available 
> nor switching to change (completion) mode after an approval step.
>
> BAdI BBP_WFL_APPROV_BADI implemented to trigger WS14500015 for item 
> based approvals and BBP_WFL_SECUR_BADI to provide the change 
> capability at the required levels. However, the workflow never 
> restarts even when security level is set at 2 (always restart). The 
> restart works as expected if I use a document level approval process 
> (WS10000129 - One Step approval of shopping cart). On debugging I 
> found that the function module BBP_PDH_WFL_CHECK_RESTART is never 
> executed for item based approval both in the 5.0 and 7.02 systems.
>
>  1. Is this a known issue/behavior? (I haven't been able to find any
>     documentation).
>  2. Has anyone successfully implemented the restart for item based
>     approval in ACW (even in a 5.0 environment)? if yes, please let me
>     know how it was done.
>
> A strange thing I noticed in my debugging, BBP_WFL_SECUR_BADI gets 
> executed 3 times when a user starts the approval process in the 702 
> system whereas it only gets executed once in the 5.0 system. Not sure why.
>
> I have posted this issue on SCN <http://scn.sap.com/thread/3665988> as 
> well.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Ramki.
>

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