let me take a guess over here...

if you go to Custom Approval Chain Mapping form you will see your Custom Chain Approval which you created...and also for Global there will be one Chain Mapping named as Auto Approve...I think that should be enabled and the order should be your Custom Chain Approval should match first if it fails then the Global Auto Approval gets matched and moves the SR from Awaiting Approval to Planning..this you can Enable it and control with the Order...

can you tell whats the status of the AP:Detail Record for that REQ??

go to AP:Detail Form(login as Admin) and CTRL+O and check whats the status of the AP:Detail Record??? is is Pending?? or Error??

so are you saying that there is no record you can see in the AP:Detail form when your SR gets stuck in the Awaiting For Approval...pls check once again....

...its a small work around...actually application has been designed in such a way that if there are no approvers then it throws an error..what we have done is we have just captured it and handled it through custom chain approval...now u can slow and steadily talk with BMC of what is missing in the actual scenario to figure out the root cause...pls update this work around in the thread so that if anyone faces this issue they can use this work around ....

have a nice day!

That was smart !

 

so what is happening now after creating the approval chain you suggested the request goes to planning , and this is because of the set status we have on the Error , Thats mean there is an Error ! but how can we capture that !

 

Thanks for your supprt !

 

can you do onething last try from my side

 

pls create a custom approval mapping....have Service Request Level and set the order to 20 and specify a qual which will be met by your Service Request...it should be generic for all the service request

 

say SR:Auto Approve is the name of it , select the company as Global and select the Service Request Level Process

 

and there if Approved set to Planning

if Rejected set to Rejected

If Cancelled just leave it blank

if Error then set the Status to Planning...

 

now you try submitting a Service Request your actual Approval Chain would fail the qual and the Auto Approve one will match and moves in to Error State as you dont have any approvers in the Approval Mappings....so your SR will move to Planning automatically...

 

this is purely a theoritcal one for me just guessing the functionality...but pls try this if it is success you will have a work around atleast u ll not be stuck anymore then you can search for a permanent solution may be talking with BMC support....

Hey Ashwanth,

 

What I am doing is even simpler! I only created an approval chain and using the process "Service Request - Management Chain" , and I have a qualification to check one of the SR Fields that mapped to a question.

 

If the qualification met then everything works fine, the request goes to waiting approval and a record in AP:Detail will be created

 

if it is NOT qualified then the SR goes to waiting approval but no AP:Detail record

 

Do I have to do it with approval mapping ?

 

hey its weird really.....ok what is happening when a custom chain(Service Request Level) is getting qualified but there are no Approvers in the Approval Mappings??? just set the Approvers Assignment Availability to No in the Approval Mappings Form and test once.....

 

what is the status of the AP:Detail record could you just test this(i am thinking it will go in Error Status)...if it goes then we may have a work around....for this

 

Cheers,

Ashwanth....

this can be used as a work around if anyone face this issue.....