2681893 - Multi-Step Approval Task Is Not Triggered for Project Purchase Request as per Approval Process Configured in System

First level approval task by Project Manager was not triggered for Project Purchase Request. Also the task went to the second step approver directly.

Once the user approved the task, the document was released.

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1. Go to Project Management work center.
2. Go to Projects view. 
3. Search for the relevant project. 
4. Click in Edit button. 
5. Navigate to Products tab.
6. Navigate to Project Purchase Request Approvals subtab. 
7. Select the respective Project Purchase Request.

Under Approvals tab, there is only one approval task completed (and not two tasks, as expected). 

The other approver was set as substitute for the Project Manager when the Purchase request was created.

So, whatever Purchase Requests were created at that time, triggered the approval task for the substitution person and once the user approved it, the document got approved. 

This is the expected system behavior.

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