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3415707 - Shopping Cart Approver is Unable to View Notes or Attachments in the Approval Task Details

Symptom

User has created shopping carts with notes or attachments however approver cannot see the attachments during approval. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Home work center
  2. Go to Self-Services and Self-Services Overview
  3. Select Shopping and Go Shopping (Advanced)
  4. Enter mandatory details and add attachments in the Shopping Cart 
  5. Now submit for Approval
  6. Approver cannot see the attachments which you have added in the Shopping Cart

Cause

The Notes and Attachments are hidden fields. 

Resolution

You can follow the below steps to enable shopping cart approver to see the attachment details:

  1. Go to Managing my Area work center.
  2. Click on Approvals view.
  3. Click on hyperlink stored under Subject column to open the approval task. 
  4. Click on 'Start Personalization Mode' in user settings.
  5. In the personalization screen, enable the fields 'Unnamed Container' using the check box.
  6. Where 1st & 2nd Unnamed Container indicates the notes & attachment.
  7. Click on save.

Now approver can see the notes or attachments in the approval screen. 

See Also

2616243 - Purchase Order Approver is Unable to View the Attachments and Notes in the Approval Task Details

3276673 - Approver of the Shopping Cart Cannot add the Attachments in to the Shopping Cart Document

Keywords

Attachment not visible to shopping cart approver; Attachments not visible to approver , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions