Understanding Field Constants for Approval Processing

After an order detail line has gone through the approval process and has been approved, you might need to create a mechanism for requiring reapproval if changes are made to the order detail line after it has reached an approved status. Provided that you have been granted the appropriate authority by the system administrator, you can use the Approvals Fields Constants program (P43080) to specify which fields that you use during approval processing trigger a reapproval to all open order lines if changes are made to any order detail lines that have an approved status. You can indicate which fields do and do not trigger reapprovals by activating and deactivating the appropriate fields.

The fields that you can activate and deactivate are contained in the F4311 and F43080 tables.

The reapproval functionality is no longer associated with the Override Next Status processing option in the Purchase Order Entry program (P4310). If you have specified an override next status and are using approval processing, note that unexpected results may occur; verify that the override next status is correct for the business process.