Introduction 

Starting with Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation Release 5.0, comes a new framework called “Approvals Data Services Framework” that draws on the Oracle Workflow Notification System infrastructure as well as on specifically configured metadata to make approval notifications available on the Approvals app. As of Mobile Foundation Release 6.0, Approvals app supports the following seeded approval types: Expenses, Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Recruitment, Timecards, Item Changes, Supplier Invoices, Channel Revenue Management (Claims, Budgets and Offers), Human Resources (Absences, Learning and person status change), Inventory (move orders), Maintenance (work orders, work requests and work permits), Order Management (RMAs, sales agreements, and quotes),  Quoting (quotes) and Service Contracts. In addition to these, one can, using Approvals Data Services Framework, configure the Custom approvals that can further be shown from the Approvals app. This enables users to show the custom notification approvals that cater to specific business needs of an organization.

Architecture 

The following is the architecture of Approvals Data Services Framework:

 

Approvals Data Services Framework provides tools to create the following artifacts and test them:

  • Configuration
  • Approval Types

The following is the menu structure for the same

 

To have your custom approvals on the Approvals app, all you need to do is follow the following steps:

  • Design Approvals Content
  • Configure Approvals Metadata
  • Create Approval Type
  • Test Approvals Data Services
  • See your approvals from the Approvals App

More information on this can be found in Configuring Messages for Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite section of Oracle Workflow Developer Guide. The instructions are common to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 and 12.2.

Summary

To summarize, you can start using the Approvals app for viewing and responding to approval notifications belonging to Approval types listed above. In addition to that, you may want to configure custom approvals that can then be accessed from the Approvals app. The steps for doing the same are provided in the link from Workflow Developer Guide provided earlier.

Please stay tuned to this space for more details on configuring your custom approvals on Approvals app.

References

  1. Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite Release Notes (MOS Doc ID 1642423.1)
  2. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation Release Notes (MOS Doc ID 1642431.1)
  3. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Apps, Release 12.1 and 12.2 Documentation Index (MOS Doc ID 1641772.1)
  4. Transfer
    of Information (TOI) Online Training
  5. Search for Oracle EBS Mobile Apps on App Store using ‘Oracle EBS America’