workflow - Assign it to Previous step

[Former Member]

Dear Experts

In My MDM Workflow process I have 2 Roles for business process governance - LDS and MDS.

Requestor  creates a material, submits to LDS Approval , and once LDS approves and submits it goes to MDS queue and then saved successfully.

When MDS rejects the request I want the material to be sent back to LDS .

Please let me know how to design this step in MDM ( Ms Visio ).

I am using SAP MDM 7.1 SP09.

Regards

Shifali.

[Former Member]

Hi Shifali,

In order to achive this requirement what you can do is create two separate workflows for creation and approval.

In STOP step of creator workflow, call Approval workflow.

Create a field say "Approval/Rejection" field having drop-down values Approve Reject.

Branch your approval workflow using a validation whether "Approval/Rejection" field is selected as Approve or Reject.

If approver rejects the record, it will follow a different path and approver approves the record then it will follow the normal process.

Now when approver rejects the record, branch step wll select a different path , which will end with a STOP step of workflow. Here you call your creator workflow.

Hope it helps you. For any further explanation , reply so that we can discuss how to go further.

Regards,

Rohini Joshi.

[Former Member]

I rather want my workflow to be sent to previous approver, when the second approver rejects the material request.

Regards

Shifali