Adding a Business Object
Prerequisites
To add a business object in the approval workflow group, you should have:
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Business object and approval workflow group created in the application.
Procedure
To add a business object in the approval workflow group:
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Click the Admin link in the Application toolbar.
A list appears.
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From the Admin menu, Select A, and then click Approval Workflow Group.
The Approval Workflow Group screen appears.
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Click the Add button in the page-title
area of the Approval Workflow Group screen.
The Approval Workflow Group screen appears. It contains following sections:
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Main - Used to specify basic details of the approval workflow group.
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Business Objects and Group BO Relation - Used to specify the fields that allow to define business and parent objects and link them with the approval workflow group.
The Business Objects and Group BO Relation section contains following fields:Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No) Business Object Used to specify the Business Object Code that you want to include in the Approval Workflow Group. Yes Reference ID 1 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to display in the approval transaction information string. Yes Reference ID 2 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to display in the approval transaction information string. Yes Reference ID 3 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to display in the approval transaction information string. Yes Reference ID 4 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to display in the approval transaction information string. Yes Reference Foreign Key 1 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No Reference Foreign Key 2 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No Reference Foreign Key 3 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No Reference Foreign Key 4 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No Reference Foreign Key 5 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No Reference Foreign Key 6 Used to specify the XPATH key of the field in the business object that you want to use for validating whether duplicate approval transaction exists in the system. No List Used to indicate whether the group contains one or multiple instance of the business object. For example, if you want to create a group that contains multiple account objects, you need to set this flag for the Account BO to True. If you want to create a group that contains single instance of the business object, you must set this flag for the business object to False. Yes Parent Business Object Used to specify the parent business object. This should be one of the business objects within the group. No From Key Used to specify the XPATH key of the field or list of fields in the parent business object. No To Key Used to specify the XPATH key of the field or list of fields in the current business object. No Note: You can search for a business object and parent business object, by clicking the Search (
) icon placed corresponding to the Business Object field. -
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If you want to define more than one business and parent
business object for the approval workflow group, click the Add (
) icon placed corresponding to the field.
- Enter the required details in Main and Business Objects and Group BO Relation sections.
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Click Save
The business object is added in the approval workflow group.
Note: When you add business objects in an approval workflow
group, you need to regenerate the Input and Display UI maps by clicking
the Regenerate UI Maps (
) icon corresponding to the group in the Approval
Workflow Settings screen. You must do this when you
are using automatically generated UI maps, and not otherwise.
) icon corresponding to the group in the Approval
Workflow Settings screen. You must do this when you
are using automatically generated UI maps, and not otherwise.Related Topics
| For more information on... | See... |
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| Approval Workflow Group screen | Approval Workflow Group (Used for Viewing) |
| Approval Workflow Group zone | Approval Workflow Group |