About Invoking the Approvals Manager Business Service from a Workflow

You can invoke the FINS Approval Item Service from a seed data workflow. To do this, click the Generate Approvals menu option on the Quote, Order, or Agreement header applet. The workflow shown in the following is the one invoked through the signal ApproveItem.

You can also invoke the FINS Approval Item Service from a workflow by creating a workflow process in Siebel Tools containing the following steps:

• Start. Initiates the process instance. When the conditions have been met, the application initiates the process instance. See Configuring the Start Step for a Workflow That Invokes the Approvals Manager Business Service.

• Business Service. A step in a process that makes an automated call to the FINS Approval Item Service. A workflow process definition can have one or more business service steps. See Configuring the Business Service Step for a Workflow That Invokes the Approvals Manager Business Service.

• End. A step in a process that specifies when a process instance is finished.

In order for your workflow to execute correctly, the Start and Business Service steps must meet the minimum requirements described in the referenced sections. For more information about workflows, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide.

An example of a workflow that invokes the Approvals Manager business service is the ISS Approval (Order) workflow, shown in the following figure.