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3600507 - Why Deactivated Purchasing Contract Approval Process Is Not Visible In "All Processes" List As Ended Process?

Symptom

Why deactivated purchasing contract approval process not visible in "All Processes" as ended process?

It is expected that the deactivated purchasing contract approval process not listed in “Active and Scheduled Processes” , however in "All Processes" list, it shall be there.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Application and User Management Work Center.
  2. Go to Approval Processes View.
  3. In the Advanced filter, dropdown list, select All Processes.
  4. In the search field, insert Purchasing Contract.
  5. No Approval Process is displayed there.

Cause

By the time the approval process of purchasing contract has been descoped, there was no document in approval in the system, so it is not showing in Business Document Type dropdown in Advanced filter and also in "All Processes" as an ended process.

Resolution

Please scope it back again and create one purchasing contract and it should go for approval so that the status of it will be "In Approval". 

Then descope it again, the process shall be available in the "All Processes" list as an ended process.

This is the current system design.

Keywords

Purchasing contract, Approval process, Ended process, All processes, In approval , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions