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combine item-release & head-release PR

Former Member
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Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to combine the two workflows for PR-release.

(header-release and item-release)

The requirement is the following : The user creates a PR, and the flow for item-release is triggered. If every item has been approved, a second flow should be started for an overall release on total amount of the pr..

Is this possible ?

thanks in advance !!

kr

Björn

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Former Member
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Forgot to close this thread.

The client agreed with releasing the PR on header.

thanks everyone for the help !

KKilhavn
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No, at least not if I have correctly understood the documentation.

Note the reservation

<i>Message was edited by Kjetil Kilhavn:</i>

Look at the documentation in the Implementation Guide in the node for setting up release procedure without classification. It seems to be either one or the other, not one or/and the other.

Former Member
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Hi Kjetil,

sorry to react this late, I was on another project and didn 't had the chance to catch up on the issue.

I'm afraid it isn 't possible. I find it a bit a strange request from the client also. Requirement is that first, there's a workflow triggered based on material group (item), and after this is ok, a second flow is triggered on total amount of the PR.

The problem is that, when you want a header-release, Overall release of purchase requisitions has to be checked, and when this is checked,it 's not possible to use item-release.

I'll search further on this matter. But whenever there's someone who has an idea to solve this, please let me know.. It will be appreciated

kr

Björn

Former Member
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Hi,

One thing which I can think of is, check if you can use WF start condtions in both the standard WF templates i.e. for Overall Release and Item release.

Suppose there is some flag with value say O or I indicating whether workflow needs to be triggered based on Overall release or on Item level release.

You can add this flag as a custom attribute of BO for Purchase order and then try using it in WF start conditions to trigger different workflows for diferent flag values.

Hope this helps.

Regads,

Akshay

KKilhavn
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The only possibility I can think of if you wish to achieve (what I guess is) the desired effect, is to set up header-level release and create your own workflow template that has one branch (parallell dynamic) per requisition item and then sends the final work item (the "real" release) when all the parallell dynamic branches have completed.

If you set up item-wise release and then create your own solution for the overall release the purchase requisition items will be released (i.e. purchase order can be created) when each item has been released, so the overall release can not prevent the process from continuing (unless you hack it).