Symptom
The ‘Update’ button is not available in the Dependents Workflow
Environment
Employee Central: Dependents Management
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to To-Do items and elect a Dependents Workflow from the list
- Open the workflow and observe that only Approve and Send Back options are available
Cause
This is expected behavior. Approvers only get the "Approve" or "Send Back" options.
Resolution
For the "Update" option this is currently not supported by Dependents workflows - so current behavior is as follows:
1) If the workflow approver chooses the "Send Back" option, the workflow will go back to the workflow initiator who can either "Resubmit" or "Withdraw" the request.
2) There is no option to "Update" meaning that "In Flight Changes" is not supported for Dependents workflows
The solution here is to "Send Back" with a comment to Withdraw and resubmit the request with the correction.
Keywords
Update Workflow, Dependents, ECT-44560 , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-WFL , Workflows - Configuration, Tools, Objects & Rules , Problem
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