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 In this scenario, when a Purchasing Agent creates a Purchase Order, we want the Purchasing Manager to review the approval request and then, if it is approved, have the Finance Manager approve it. 1.  Create a  New Workflow User Group . In my example below, it is called PD APPROVAL. We add the Purchasing Manager and the Finance Manager as approvers. The sequence numbers assigned are the order in which approvers must review the PO; the Purchasing Manager is first, and the Finance Manager is second. 2.  Create a new  Workflow  from the standard BC  Purchase Order Approval Workflow template . 3. The “ Then Response”  on the first event (Approval of a purchase document is requested) needs to be changed to specify an approver type of  Workflow User Group  and select the newly created  Workflow User Group PD APPROVAL . Since our Workflow User Group was set up with the users having a sequence of 1 and 2, the approval is sent in sequen...

 This scenario is where the Company wants the PO to be approved by ANY of the approvers in the Workflow User Group, requiring only one approval for the PO to be released. This is often used when the second approver is a backup or if both approvers have equal authority for approval. 1.  Create a New Workflow User Group . In my example below, it is called PD PARALLEL. We add two users as Approval Managers and set sequence to 1. 2.  Create a new Workflow from the standard BC Purchase Order Approval Workflow template . 3. The “ Then Response” on the first event (Approval of a purchase document is requested) needs to be changed to specify an approver type of Workflow User Group and select the newly created Workflow User Group PD PARALLEL . 4. We need to change the condition on the second line of the Workflow steps to Pending = 1   and on the third line to Pending = > 1 .  5. Now you can enable Workflow and test the set up for the parallel approval process. ...