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VIM Invoice Approval Fiori App

Open Text had released the Invoice Approval Fiori App based on 7.0 SP6 and 7.5 SP2.

The following functionality is covered by the app

– Non PO Invoice Approvals


While Open Text has made the step in the right direction, there are many functionalities which are not yet covered by Open Text Fiori App.

– PO Invoice Approvals

– Blocked Invoices / Exception Handling

– Invoice Coding and Verification


Sample Screen from OpenText Fiori App for Non PO Invoice Approvals

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Issues faced in implementing / using the Open Text Fiori App:
– Not supported on Fiori Client App

– Indefinite wait indicator on screen

– Incorrect componentisation of code

– No extension points in UI

– Rendering issues

– Attachment Rendering issues

– App crashes

– Refer functionality issues

The above issues have made this Fiori app not user friendly and does not work on mobile Fiori client (Open Text confirmed that this works only on mobile browser!! Fiori app that doesn’t work on Fiori Client  🙂 ). Even though Open Text has mentioned the app can be extended by config in the back end, that very much limited the ability to freely customize the UI code.

To overcome these issues and limitations we had to do the following

– Fixes and modifications to Open Text Fiori App for Non PO Invoice Approvals

– Redesign the code to run it in Fiori Client App

– Developed a completely New app for PO Invoice Approvals

– Still working on Invoice Coding and Verification

Here are the screenshots

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Screenshot for PO Invoice Approval:

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Road map given by Open Text shows that blocked invoices will be supported by April 2016 along with 7.5 SP4.

In the mean time while Open Text fixes their app, let me know if you need any help on deploying the Invoice Approval Fiori App in your organization.

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
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      Did a count of objects on the Launchpad configuration

      /OTX/PF05_DATA/Nodes(..)/Objects/$count

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      Former Member

      Hi,

      Can you please share me the configuration guide for the VIM FIORI app.

      Thanks,

      Bhushan

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      Blog Post Author

      Hi Bhushan

      Let me know your email and I can provide you. You can also download from the Open Text support portal. Are you looking for both PO and non PO Invoice approvals?

      Thanks

      Vidyadhar

      Author's profile photo Shahid Ahmed Khadri
      Shahid Ahmed Khadri

      Thanks Vidyadhar for sharing.

      Can you also share the config document? [email removed by moderator]

      Thanks.

      Author's profile photo Saikiran Arrepu
      Saikiran Arrepu

      Hi,

       

      We are looking into implementing the Opentext Fiori apps can you share with me the process to configure the Opentext Fiori apps on our S/4 Hana system.

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      Former Member

      Can someone help me understand this. Is there any standard functionality for the below scenario.

      Automation trigger from VIM of the correspondence to the Vendor when RTV is selected and the DP document saved.

      Author's profile photo Michael Appleby
      Michael Appleby

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      Author's profile photo Barin DESAI
      Barin DESAI

      Yes there is.

       

      pf07_bc_ui_02 is the application with parameters

      http://<host:port>/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/otbcwui/pf07_bc_ui_02/index.html?nodeId=PS03_VIM_APR_INV&system=<your system alias>&wobjType=PS03_PRC_VIM_APR&workplaceId=WP_INBOX

      if you get errors like 404, 400 then check your system alias.

      If you get errors like 503 then check the ICF services in the front end to be imported from ECC back end system.

      Configuration document is available for download if you google it.

       

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      Former Member

      Hi Vidyadhar

      Would you be able to send me FIORI Configuration provided by opentext for Non-PO & PO based invoices. We are looking for this feature to be implemented for our client.


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      Former Member

      Sorry I cannot; but if you have any specific questions I can help answering it to you.

      Thanks,

      Bhushan

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      Former Member

      Hi,

      Is it still the case that the VIM Invoice Approval Fiori App only supports the Non-PO scenario?

      Regards,

      Niels De Greef

      Author's profile photo Sathish J
      Sathish J

      Hi ,

                  We imported VIM FIORI application (PF07_BC_UI) from gateway system and trying to extend the same to do some modification in UI, but we are getting error "Could not find the root Component.js in the selected folder .

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      Regards,

      Sathish J

      Author's profile photo Michael Appleby
      Michael Appleby

      Unless you are asking for clarification/correction of some part of the Document, please create a new Discussion marked as a Question.  The Comments section of a Blog (or Document) is not the right vehicle for asking questions as the results are not easily searchable.  Once your issue is solved, a Discussion with the solution (and marked with Correct Answer) makes the results visible to others experiencing a similar problem.  If a blog or document is related, put in a link.  Read the Getting Started documents (link at the top right) including the Rules of Engagement. 

      NOTE: Getting the link is easy enough for both the author and Blog.  Simply MouseOver the item, Right Click, and select Copy Shortcut.  Paste it into your Discussion.  You can also click on the url after pasting.  Click on the A to expand the options and select T (on the right) to Auto-Title the url.

      Thanks, Mike (Moderator)

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      Former Member

      What is the BSP name of this application .

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

       

      Hi ,

      we have requirement to implement VIM Fiori apps.

      Can you please advise where to download the apps and steps to configure please.

      I have checked the opentext website and I could not find good details.

      Author's profile photo Sridhar Kanchanapalli
      Sridhar Kanchanapalli

      Have you found any? We are looking for same.

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      Former Member

      Hi;

      Can you help me I am trying configuration for the VIM FIORI app PO and non PO Invoice approvals? and invoice posting.

       

      Author's profile photo Sridhar Kanchanapalli
      Sridhar Kanchanapalli

      Have you found any help document? How to configure in FLP?

       

      We configured Tile with the below URL, but some of the information is missing.

      https:/<>:8100/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/otbcwui/pf07_bc_ui_03/index.html?nodeId=PS311_PRC_VIM_VANREP&wobjType=PS311_VIM_VANREP&workplaceId=WP_INBOX but it is not displaying correctly. It has 200 records but none of them shows up. Please see attached.

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      Former Member

       

      Configure this URL, but I cannot find which task associated with this URL, as well as assign the workflow, you will have some information about it.

       

      /sap/bc/ui5_ui5/otbcwui/pf07_bc_ui_02/index.html?nodeId=PS03_VIM_APR_INV&wobjType=PS03_PRC_VIM_APR&workplaceId=WP_INBO
      X&system=<SID>

       

      If you have any information, you can share it with me
      Thanks
      Author's profile photo Sridhar Kanchanapalli
      Sridhar Kanchanapalli

      In our environment  pf07_bc_ui_03 exits, try changing in your URL.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Could you share more details about the URL and creation of the approval and rejection, how did you do it? please!
      Author's profile photo Sridhar Kanchanapalli
      Sridhar Kanchanapalli

      I have open SAP Incident on this, i will let you know once i hear from them.

      SICF - pf07_bc_ui_02 does not exists in our System. Below URL is working (Not fully).

      /sap/bc/ui5_ui5/otbcwui/pf07_bc_ui_03/index.html?nodeId=PS03_VIM_APR_INV&wobjType=PS03_PRC_VIM_APR&workplaceId=WP_INBO
      X&system=LOCAL