3253428 - Deactivation of Approval Process For Expense Report Does Not Work If the Standard Approval Process is Changed.

Expense report goes to approval after deselected the Check box for Audit and Approval in Business Task Management for Expense and Reimbursement Management Activity.

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1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
2. Go to Implementation Projects View.
3. Select the relevant Project and Choose Open Activity List.
4. Go to Fine-Tune Activities.
5. Show All Activities and Find Business Task Management for Expense and Reimbursement Management Activity.
6. Choose Open.
7. Go to Edit Audit and Approval Scenarios.
8. Deselect the check boxes Audit Required and Approval Required for each Country Version for which you don’t want that Expense Reports will be Audited or Approved.
9. Submit the Expense report and you see it went to Approval.

First, check the Approval Process under Application and User Management Work center.It should be standard Approval Process.

If the Standard Approval Process is modified,then the deactivation of Approval Process does not work for Expense Reports.

The Standard Approval Process must be as follows:

Work Distribution: Approver of Highest Cost
Conditions:
Group 1: Expense Report Approval Configuration should be equal to Yes.

Once the Standard Approval Process is maintained and the Configuration related to Deactivating the Approval Process for an Expense Report is set,then the Expense Report skips the Audit and Approval Process.

 2354912 - How to Deactivate Approval Process for an Expense Report

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