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3288094 - Restart of Flexible Workflow For Rejected or In approval documents - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

  • When a Purchase Requisition is rejected, the Rejected PR is then edited and clicked on checkbox 'Purchase requisition item is closed'. This PR is again sent back for approval.
  • This is could happen with Various documents like PR or PO or Purchase contract etc

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to APP 'Manage Purchase Requisition-Professional'
  2. Selected the rejected Purchase Requisition
  3. Open items tab
  4. Click on 'Edit Rejected Item'
  5. Go to 'Quantity and date' tab 
  6. Select the checkbox 'Purchase Requisition Item is Closed'

Cause

Standard System Design

Resolution

If document has never been approved fully atleast once then even though its rejected or is still in approval status then make some changes or simply withdraw and resubmit without making any changes, then system considers it as new document hence will not consider restart related SSCUI or Restart BAdi , it simply checks the workflow and triggers the workflow based on pre conditions and step conditions.

 or

If document was approved atleast once and then it was rejected or is still in approval status then make some changes or simply withdraw and resubmit without making any changes, then system considers restarts related SSCUI and Restart BAdi  to trigger the workflow.

See Also

KBA 2775709 - Purchase Requisitions Workflow restart using SSCUI and BAdIs

KBA 2846174 - Information regarding BAdI Define Conditions to Restart Flexible Workflow for Purchase Requisitions - SAP for Me

KBA 3457377 - Workflow restarted when unblocking/Undeleting/adding/deleting the item

Keywords

Manage Purchase Requisition-Professional, PR, Rejected PR, Restart workflow, 102888, MM_PUR_S4_PR_WFL_RESTART, Purchase Requisition Item Closed, Edit Rejected Item, MM-FIO-PUR-REQ-PRF, MM-FIO-PUR-REL,restarted, restarting, triggered,again going for approval , KBA , MM-FIO-PUR-REQ-PRF , Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional , MM-FIO-PUR-REL , Fiori UI for Purchasing Approval , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions