Before you can use document parking and release in
Financial Accounting
, you must make certain settings in the
Workflow
component. These are described in
Document Parking and Release with Workflow
If you want certain parked documents to be subject to a release process
before
being posted, you must specify this in Customizing for
Financial Accounting.
To do so, make the following specifications:
Create workflow variants
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.
Assign company codes to workflow variants
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
You must make the following additional specifications for the amount release function:
Release approval groups
Define these in the customer and vendor master records.
To find out how to define release approval groups, see the
Financial Accounting Implementation Guide
under the activity
Define Release Approval Groups for Document Parking
.
Release approval paths
Assignment of documents using the document type and release approval groups.
To find out how to define release approval paths, refer to the
Financial Accounting Implementation Guide
under the activity
Define Release Approval Paths for Document Parking
.
Release approval procedure
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 Procedures for Document Parking.
Persons with release authorization, defined on the basis of release approval paths, release approval level and the amount in question.
Fields which should cause the release to be canceled if they are changed
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 Global Settings
Implementation Guide under
Document Parking
.