Create a Work Category

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Robert Spurr
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    Does any know if it is possible to create a new work category in BPM and relate it to a service (Existing or new)?  I'm looking for a solution like how RQ approvals work with category filtering.

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    Robert

    David Williams
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      All you have to do is Assign a new value to the oCatValue variable within your flow. I've had clients who wanted to approve by Acct Unit instead of Req Loc and this is the way to do it. You don't have to create a new Cat Filtet Name, just use Rec Loc when you set up your Approvers. ProcessFlow doesn't care about the name. It just uses the Category Filter Value.
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      Robert Spurr
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        My fault, I was wasn't clear on my intentions. We are going to utilize the JE Approvals and as typical the delivered flow isn't robust enough. I was thinking of using tasks and category filtering to help in the customized routeing but in order to use filtering the service must work with a work category. While I can build a new category I have no clue how to tie it a service.

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        BarbR
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          In our HR Personnel Action approval flows I did what ConsultantDavidW said. The PA flows are tied to the Supervisor work category. At the points in the flow where I wanted to use a different filter value, I saved off the oCatValue and replaced it with Company/ProcessLevel value for that employee which matched the values I had assigned to the Supervisor work category. Before every HRUserAction node I restored the saved oCatValue so that the Supervisor hierarchy (which relies on a Supervisor number as the category value) would be able to operate normally. Clunky, but it works great.