Workflow Approval Examples

[Former Member]

I am seeking process workflow examples that point out the approval steps. I intend to take these examples and compare them to our current processes and identify areas where we are not taking advantage of the workflow/automated approvals/controls available in SAP. An example would be the journal entry approval process.

Does anyone have suggestions as to where I might be able to locate some examples.

Thank you.

[Former Member]

Hi Richard

The answer to this one is driven by your process, but the options available are actually quite broad. What I mean is:

• You can use existing approval mechanisms such as park/release (as in the case with invoices), release (in a purchasing document), or unlock (in the case of HR infotypes). These could be described as the vanilla options.

• You can also develop your own methodology based on the workflow instance rather than the database entry. For example I was asked to create a workflow to approve creation of master data objects (vendors in this case). I built a module pool to create/change/delete/list entries for the user, but on creation/change, this started a workflow and populated the workflow container before sending for approval. Only after approval was the container passed into a method to actually create the database record. In this way you can get approval on any type of data regardless of whether SAP has supplied an approval mechanism.

• And of course you can use Adobe forms in an analogous manner as well.

So the question actually becomes where do my business processes require approval and using workflow here.

Regards

Gareth

[Former Member]

hai

go to trans swdd and in the workflow no type WS00400077,

WS20000050 these are some examples pls try it.

regards

rose

[Former Member]

WS20000050 check this Workflow Template and replicate accordingly.

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[Former Member]

Thank you for the reply. Can you tell me where I find "WS20000050"?