Configuring Your Procurement Solution to Use the Document Approval API

Use this procedure to set the parameter to track invoices, requisitions, and/or user profiles, and whether to track delegations.

Context

When setting a configuration parameter in the Intelligent configuration manager, you must first make your modifications in a test site, create a package, and test it. When your tests are successful and you are satisfied with the results, push your new configuration into production. For details about this workflow, see Workflow for Updating Configurations for the Site and Configuration Packages in Intelligent Configuration Manager in Intelligent Configuration Manager Administration.

Procedure

  1. In Ariba Administrator navigate to Start of the navigation pathIntelligent Configuration Manager Next navigation step Manage ConfigurationsEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Set the Types of approvables allowed for external approval (Application.Approvable.AllowedForExternalApproval) parameter, as follows:

    • To track invoices, add the value ariba.invoicing.core.Invoice

    • To track requisitions, add the value ariba.purchasing.core.Requisition

    • To track user profiles, add the value ariba.common.core.UserProfile

    • To track multiple document types, add all desired values.

    • To track delegations, add the value ariba.user.core.User

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