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Posted on by 425

Hi,

I have some questions on setting up Workflow.  Appreciate your feedback or any document that can help me on this.  Thank you

1.  In PR Review workflow type, I would like to know what is the purpose of the task 'Review Purchase Requisition'?  Is it something I can add before the 'Approve Purchase Requisition' step?  OR I can only choose Approve or Review' step but not both?  

2.  In the workflow setup/basic settings - who is the owner of the workflow?  Is this the approver of the workflow

3.  In the assignment tab, are the user/s that will be selected here are the possible Approver (either of the users)  of the workflow?  

4.  If I have matrix of amounts and PR approver depending on the amount in the table , does WF functionality supports this requirement?  Also same for PO.  

Thank you.

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    SouravDam Profile Picture
    11,730 on at

    Hello Pamski -,

    Below is the response to your queries.

    1) "Review" action is something to verify the details submitted in the PR before go for approval or rejection action. It ensure an additional document monitoring and verification scope in the system.

    Better to set this before the "Approve purchase requisition" step. Once the PR is verified, it will got for approval.

    There is no restriction in selecting both these options. You can also directly select the "Approval" steps without passing the document through review process. When the approver receive the notification for approval, he/she can go through the entire document as a part of review too and then take an action to approve or reject.

    2) "Owner" is the person who created this workflow. The same owner can be set as an approver too.

    3) Yes if you select the users in the "Assignment" section, then they will be responsible to take approval or rejection action in the workflow.

    However; you can further decide whether the workflow will work on single approval basis or based on multiple approval where every single users you selected as an approver in the Selected Users section, should be responsible to approve or reject the PR once submitted. Once you set the approver, this validation you can set in the Completion policy.

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    4) Yes this support in both PR and PO workflows. You can define this in Condition section.

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    You can also set amount matrix in PR line also.

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    In any ways; you can also define "And" "Or" as per your requirement.

    Kindly check and review.

    Best regards,
    Sourav Dam

    Kindly mark this thread 'Yes' if this is answered your query which may help other community members in this forum.

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    Rahul Mohta Profile Picture
    21,032 on at

    1) reviewer and approver both can be added however needs to be seperate step

    2) owner is of the workflow and not specific instance

    4) can use spending and approval limits

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    SouravDam Profile Picture
    11,730 on at

    Hello Pamski -,

    Is this sorted out?

    Kindly go through the suggestions and update us on this thread.

    Best regards,
    Sourav Dam

    Kindly mark this thread 'Yes' if this is answered your query which may help other community members in this forum.

  • pams.basilio Profile Picture
    425 on at

    Hi Sourav,

    Thanks for your feedback.  I will test and update this thread asap.  

    Thanks

  • pams.basilio Profile Picture
    425 on at

    Hi Rahul, Sourav,

    May I know who is the resource that I should select in the owner field.  Is it the user that I use to login or the worker that is mapped to the user?  In my case since I am using a test environment,  my users is not setup as worker so I just linked my user to another worker (Person field).

  • qianwang Profile Picture
    7,168 on at

    Hi Pamski ,

    Owner is the person who manages and maintains this workflow. And it is the user that you use to login.

    Regards,

    QianQW

  • pams.basilio Profile Picture
    425 on at

    Hi QianQW

    Thanks for your feedback.  Sorry I mean in my case the Person I linked is not my user.  Pls see screen capture below4062.Untitled.jpg 

    Who should I select in the Owner and Users assigned to this workflow - is it the user  I used to login or the Person linked?

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    qianwang Profile Picture
    7,168 on at

    Hi Pamski ,

    You should select the user you used to login.

    Regards,

    QianQW

  • pams.basilio Profile Picture
    425 on at

    Hi Sourav,

    Thank you very much for this very informative feedback.  

    1) Managed to test workflow with PR Approval step only and both Review & Approval steps it works as advised.

    2.)  Noted on the purpose of the Owner field.

    3.)  Tested this and it works as advised.  

    4.)  I have tested by defining AND criteria in Condition section   and activated a Spending limit and Approval limit but it did not work.  I was wrong somewhere.  I will just raise new question for this.

    .

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