Use
The Workflow (WF) component is used for document release in Financial Accounting (FI). For more information on SAP Workflow, see the WF SAP Business Workflow documentation.
There are two types of document release:
Prerequisites
Before you can use document parking and release in the Financial Accounting component, you must make certain settings in the Workflow component. For further information, see
Document Parking and Release with WorkflowYou make the following settings in Customizing for Financial Accounting under Financial Accounting Global Settings ® Document ® Parked Documents:
Create a workflow variant. Assign this variant to a workflow model for account assignment approval. You must also specify whether the document release function is active and from which amount this is necessary. For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under the activity Create Workflow Variants for Document Parking.
You can also assign company codes to workflow variants. If a company code is not assigned to a workflow variant, the document release process is not carried out. For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under the activity Assign Company Code to Workflow Variants for Parking Documents and Create Workflow Variant for Document Parking.
You must make the following additional specifications for the amount release function:
Define these in the customer and vendor master records.
For information on defining release approval groups, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Define Release Approval Groups for Document Parking.
Assignment of documents using the document type and release approval groups.
For information on defining release approval paths, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Define Release Approval Paths for Document Parking and Assign Release Approval Paths for Document Parking.
Determining the release approval procedure using the release approval path and the release approval amount: Single-level or multi-level release (dual control principle).
For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Assign Release Approval Procedure for Parking Documents.
For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Define Users with Release Authorization for Parking Documents.
Here you can specify, for example, that after an amount has been changed, the whole release procedure must be restarted. For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Reset Release Approval (Customers/Vendors/G/L Accounts/Asset Accounts).
For more information, see the Financial Accounting Implementation Guide under Financial Accounting Global Settings ® Document ® Document Parking.
Features
You can:
See also:
The Document Parking Process with Document Release: Example