SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3094062 - Task type exists with instantiation lock

Symptom

After creating a custom approval process on your add-on within the SAP Cloud Applications Studio and then clicking on the Submit for Approval button on the UI, the below errors are shown:

  • Task type exists with instantiation lock
  • Process definition exists with configuration error

Environment

  • SAP Cloud for Customer
  • SAP Business ByDesign
  • SAP Cloud Applications Studio 

Cause

This issue occur when there is a change in the design time data in the approval process related files. In order to keep data consistent, approval task type is "Instantiation locked" until the changes are deployed into the solution profile workspace.

Resolution

You can be resolving the issue by following either of the opstions below:

1. To update the solution workspace when opening the tenant's Implementation Project or by deploying Business Configuration for the solution on the Studio.

2. If this does not fix this issue then please try to cross check if the solution is completely scoped on this tenant.

3. If it is scoped, please descope it and scope again. (be aware of consequences which are stated on CAS help portal when descoping it).

Keywords

YXXXXXX_AXXX_AXX, SDK, PDI, BTM,  approved, rejected, in, revision, task, type, exists, with, instantiation, lock, process, definition , KBA , AP-RC-BDS-BTM , ByDesign Studio Business Task Management , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud Applications Studio all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions