Rejecting an Approval Transaction

Prerequisites

To return an approval transaction to its submitter, you should have:

  • Rejection reasons defined in the application

Note:

While returning an approval transaction, you need to specify the reason why you want to return the approval transaction. You can select the appropriate rejection reason when you have defined the reasons for the Rejected status of the business object in the Status Reason screen.

The system will not allow you to approve, return or revert an approval transaction submitted by you.

Procedure

To reject an approval transaction:

  1. Click the Menu link in the Application toolbar.
    A list appears.
  2. In the Search Results section, click the link in the Approval Transaction ID column corresponding to the approval transaction which you want to review.
    The Comparison: New versus Existing screen appears.
  3. Review the compared existing and new approval transactions.
  4. Click Return to Submitter." With stepresult, "The Rejection/Cancelation Reason window appears. It contains the following fields:
    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Approval Workflow Reason Used to search a particular approval workflow reason. Yes
    Comments Used to specify additional information while rejecting the usage record. Yes
  5. Enter the required details.
  6. Click OK.
    The approval transaction is removed from the search results.

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