Symptom
You want to know how to set up Workflow Rule for Business Object Expense Report
Environment
Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
1. Navigate to the Application and User Management Workcenter.
2. Proceed to the workflow rules view.
3. Click on New and observe that the Expense report option is missing.
Cause
The definition of workflow rules in SAP Business ByDesign is only supported for some dedicated Business Objects and not for all Business Objects. Unfortunately, Expense Reports is not supported. Supported List is as below.
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Account
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Content Transfer
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Credit Memo
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Customer Contract
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Customer Invoice
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Employee
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Employee Termination
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Employee Transfer
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Engineering Change Orders
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Goods and Activity Confirmation
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Goods and Services Receipt
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Lead
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Material
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Price List
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Production Bill of Material
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Production Bill of Operations
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Production Model
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Project
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Purchase Order
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Purchase Request
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Purchasing Contract
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Sales Order
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Sales Quote
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Sales Quote for Contract
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Service Order
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Service Product
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Service Quote
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Service Request
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Shopping Cart
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Supplier
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Supplier Invoice
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Warranty
Resolution
- Navigate to the Travel and Expenses Workcenter > Expenses Reports.
- Click on New. Here, options for Task, Notification, Alert, Clarification Request are available.
- For Traveler: Home -> Self-Services Overview -> Expense Reports -> Track my Expense Reports and then New for the same options.
- To be notified via mail about such created tasks, notifications, alerts and clarification requests, one can subscribe to it. Refer to the SAP Business ByDesign Help chapter about "Subscribe to Tasks" for the configuration.
See Also
Keywords
SAP Business ByDesign, Expense Report, Workflow Rule, Notification Email, Business Objects, Task, Notification, Alert, Clarification Request, Subscribe to Tasks. , KBA , SRD-FIN-ERM , Travel and Expense Management , Problem
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