Deadline monitoring for build process automation

[vivekkumar15]

Hi All,

We created a build process automation, where it is going for approval to approver. Now if he doesnt approve within time ( say 1 day), then each day we want to send reminder mails. However this feature seems unavailable.

1. Is this feature planned in near future. I read in some question that it was planned for Q3,2023; but still not available.

2. Is there any workaround that we can do. I tried to create a branch. Idea was to have approval task in one branch, and have flow to send mails in loop with wait step. But condition within a branch is not possible.

Could you please advise how can we achieve this

[Dan_Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Perhaps you have seen this, but here is someone who created a workaround using the SBPA APIs: https://answers.sap.com/questions/13918584/reminder-function-for-sap-build-workflow.html

If you need help finding the APIs, let me know.

archana.shukla Any updates on this feature? I could not find in the external roadmap

[vivekkumar15 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your response Daniel. Will check with customer if they urgently need this, then can plan the way this workaround, or can wait for some time for feature to get rolled out.

One update about this feature: SAP is planning to rollout this by end of Q4 2023 or early Q1 2024.

[Dan_Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

By the way, the condition in branch seems to be on its way to being rolled out (no guarantees).