3382145 - How to Filter Purchase Requests Having Life Cycle Status: In Preparation?

User wants to filter the purchase request which are having status "In preparation" while creating the purchase order in the "Open purchase request view"

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1. Go to Purchase request and order work center
2. Go to Purchase request view
3. Choose "open purchase request" from drop down
4. User notices many purchase requests with Life Cycle Status: "In preparation"

1. In the "Open purchase request" view.
2. There is a column named "Follow-on process" in adaptation mode, here this column has two values one is "Blocked" and another is "Not Blocked"
3. For the purchase request which are available to create the Purchase order and "Life cycle status" is "released" they have the value as "Not Blocked".
4. However for the  purchase request which are not available to create the Purchase order and "Life cycle status" is "In preparation" they have the value as "Blocked".
5. User can use this column as a filter to differentiate while the user is creating the purchase order.

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