Approve workitems from outlook

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I want to approve workitems from outlook. I learnt that we can use Microsoft Duet for this. Can you please tell me whether Duet can be used for approval from outlook for both standard workflows as well as custom workflows. Also please tell me whether irrespective of workflow being standard or custom the features, content and process of approving workitems from outlook, will it be the same for both the case. Or will there be any features or functionality that will be missing or can't be incorporated in case of custom workflows. Will only a link be displayed in outlook clicking on which it will open the workitem or will the workitem similar to that displayed in SBWP be displayed. In caseof link then it will a round about way of approving from SBWP.

I also learnt that this can be done by extended notifications. Can workitems be approved in case of using extended notifications or just notications can be sent using this. Please highlight me in this regard.

KR,

Bharath

Edited by: bharath padmanabhan on Oct 27, 2009 8:44 AM

[former_member182468 · Accepted solution]

Hi bharath ,

You are asolutely right ,there are 2 appraoches -

1) Microsoft Duet

SAP provides Leave Management in Duet .

With duet , any SAP workflow approval step can be handled Through Microsoft outlook .

For this the prerequisites are

a) MS office client

b) MS windows server

c) SAP ERP

d) MS exchange

in Duet the user is logged on to windows and gets validated with SAP,

you can search more on leave management through duet .

2) extended notifications

In extended notification , workflow work item would be sent in MS outlook inbox .User will be asked to provide SAP login and id and password to access the workitem .This will open SBWP for them .

this can be checked using report RSWUWFML2.

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/Workitemintimationintheemail

you will find a lot on this in sdn .

hope this helps.

thanks,

sahiba

[Former Member]

Hi Bharath,

here you go :

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I hope this helps

Regards,

Raj

Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Oct 28, 2009 5:04 PM

[bpawanchand]

@Kandaraj Subramani

Instead of copying the content from the blog you could have directly reffered this blog, right?

/people/saujanya.gn/blog/2006/12/19/how-to-get-work-items-your-outlook-inbox