I'm trying to set up a Purchase Order Approval workflow in ION but I'm being told that this isn't possible as there's no 'pending' status - i.e. a PO can either be created or approved, there's no step in between the two where the document can be sent out to ION.

Is this true and does anyone have any solutions to this? All I want is to be able to set approval rules outside of LN and route them back in.

Hi,

Till the mid of last year, there was no standard way for this. They told that they will be bringing this in their later version called Jira. Not sure if they have introduced it or not. Workaround is - Customizing BOD's.

Moving the thread to ION Forum.

Hi Iain, In LN 10.4 this is supported. See KB 1026816. There you can find the LN - ION content guide. There the procedure is described how to do the setup for Document Authorization (chapter 2) and the supported documents are described (ch 5). This will give you the pending status.

hi Bhushan, Jira is not a version. It is an issue tracking system, just google on it.

Thanks Adriaan, didn't knew that. Just remembered from my past about a mention of ION Jira and thought it was a version as they mentioned it.

There was a reply from them - "Enhancement Jira ION-349" is pending and I assumed it to be their next ION version. Haven't been working on ION lately.

Thanks - we're on 10.3 so that's disappointing.

Would it possible in theory to use the approval capability that is in LN and connect ION so that it sends notifications when users have a Purchase Order to approve?

I recognise that this isn't using the workflow capability but it seems like a potential workaround to me?

So for 10.3 there is no nice solution. You could however introduce a munal first step in the PO procedure. So at moment of approval IOn can create a task. This is a review task of the PO and if the approver is ok then he should executed this manual step. Then the real PO process can continue. Not elegant but maybe just sufficient.

Hi Ian,

I create an purchase order approval cycle with a manual order step. Once the order hits the status 'To be approved' I send out an e-mail using the ERP Add on FormDesigner. In the ERP system I created tables to be able to setup which people need to approve the order (Bill of Approvers). All of them get an email and have to do the actual approval in ERP itself. Once everybody approved the order can move forward in the order procedure.
If you are interested, please contact me.

Henri Pruim

The document authorization is available for 10.3 , you need to implement it using .
Object Configuration Mgt.

When approval the PO in the ION ActivityDeck. the PO Workflow Status: is "Approval Received",What is the next step?

when execute check-in in the session ttocm9599m000. the error in the windows event


ExtraInfo : session: "ttocm9599m000";object: "ttocm9599m000"; function: "handle.dependent.objects" ; company number: 90
Message : FATAL ERROR: Function 'handle.dependent.objects': recursion not possible; refcount=2.

Can not continue in ttocm9599m000 in DLL: otdpur400 (handle.dependent.objects)[last function:get.var]
Stack trace:
handle.dependent.objects(-2,1) (in object otdpur400)
before.save.object(-2) (in object otdpur400)
dal.do.update("tdpur400",1124073473,1,3) (in object ottstpamdll)
handle.status.change.for.header.based.triggering("PUR000016",10,10) (in object otdpurdll4109)
tdpur.dll4109.approve.purchase.order.lines.with.commit("PUR000016",0,0) (in object otdpurdll4109)
handle.approval.purchase.order.lines() (in object otdpur400)
handle.dependent.object.purchase.order.lines.for.workflow(-2,0) (in object otdpur400)
handle.dependent.objects(-2,0) (in object otdpur400)
after.save.object(-2) (in object otdpur400)
dal.do.update("tdpur400",1174405121,1,3,98305,1) (in object ottstpamdll)
dal.save.object("tdpur400") (in object ottstpamdll)
dal.chm.callback.change("tdpur400") (in object ottstpamdll)

Hi Xupengkun,
Please register this as an incident in Infor Xtreme. Either a solution is missing or you did face a new bug.
Adriaan

hi ARijke
no Xtreme account

I think that this is a bug and needs a LN solution to be installed. Without a maintenance contract/Xtreme account you will probably not get this solved.
regards, Adriaan

Hi
We have customers on 10.3 and solved it using ION and manual activities.
Do you need more details?

The reported issue is resolved with KB 1689044.

yes,the problem is solved.

If you still have 10.3 or lower it is not solved, AFAIK