Req Approval - Multiple users

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Lynne
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    We'd like to make our capital req approval process more efficient by sending the approval request to 4 users at one time.  Currently, they are sent sequentially and it doesn't move on to the next approver until the one prior has approved it.  This slows down the process. 

    To accomplish this, I set the UA options tab to " % of recipients take a specific action" at Approve for 100%.  It seems to work in that it doesn't move on until all have approved.  The problem is that I would like to write a comment to the requisition header every time someone takes the Approve action.  Since it doesn't move on until all have approved, I can't figure out how to do this in a a timely manner as soon as each one approves.  Is it even possible?

    The reason for this is we need a way to track who the holdup is if a req isn't getting approved and we see that it is stopped at this multiple UA.  Any ideas or help are appreciated.  Thanks!

     

     

     

    Lynne
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      I should add that this is ProcessFlow Designer, not IPA. We will be moving to IPA, so I'd be interested to hear if anyone has solutions there also.
      David Williams
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        The flow doesn't move forward until all users take action in this case - you'd have to write a separate flow to read the Task Metrics records to see which users approved at that point and update the requisition.
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        Lynne
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          Will the WFMETRICS table still be around when we upgrade to 10 and move req approval to IPA?
          David Williams
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            Yes, but it won't be used to track the approvals. IPA has it's own PfiMetrics table.
            David Williams