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Workflow: Approve Working Times (CATS) 

Purpose
You can use this SAP Business Workflow to support the approval
procedure for data entered in the Cross-Application Time
Sheet (CATS). There are three standard tasks, each of which is used for a
different method of determining the approver responsible.
The workflow is made up of single-step tasks. It cannot be extended to
multi-step tasks for technical reasons.
Prerequisites
·        Your employees record their working times in the Cross-Application
Time Sheet (CATS). You can use the workflow regardless of the data
entry technology used.
·        You have specified the required standard tasks in all relevant data
entry profiles.
·        You have decided on one method out of the various options for
approving working times. For more information, see Approval
Procedures for the Time Sheet.
Process Flow
        1.      The employees record their working times in the Cross-Application
Time Sheet (CATS). Depending on the settings in the data entry
profile, they save their working times or release them. The working
times have the processing status 20 (Released for Approval).
        2.      The system determines the person to approve the working times.
        3.      The system enters a work item in the approver’s workflow inbox. It
generates only one work item for each approver and workflow task,
regardless of how many working times are pending approval and the
number employees.
If the system determined more than one recipient, it enters the work
item in the inbox of each one.
        4.      The approver executes the work item.
        5.      The system determines the application to be used to carry out the
approval.
Access to the application from the workflow inbox (SAP GUI)
The system runs the approval report with the specified
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variant. For more information, see the Implementation Guide for

the Cross-Application Time Sheet and choose Settings for All
User Interfaces ® Approval Procedure.
Access to the application from the universal worklist (UWL)
If you have assigned your copy of the standard task to a task
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visualization type using the Task Visualization transaction

(SWFVISU) and have maintained the parameters, the approver
accesses the Approve Working Times Web application on
executing the work item.

The three standard tasks for the workflow are already maintained
in the table. They control the call of the Approve Working
Times Web application.
If the system finds no entry for the tasks in the SWFVISU
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transaction, it calls the specified variant of the approval report.

        6.      The approver approves or rejects the working times.
        7.      If a work item was assigned to more than one recipient, the system
removes it from the other recipients' inboxes.
See also:
This documentation presumes that you are familiar with the technology
used to develop an SAP Business Workflow. For more information, see 
SAP Business Workflow.