To view the properties of the Create And Approve Purchase Order Or Release process, select the process in the navigator tree, then choose Properties from the Edit menu. The Create And Approve Purchase Order Or Release process has a result type of PO Document Processed, indicating that when the process completes, it has a result of Document Processed. This result corresponds to the lookup code in the PO Document Processed lookup type in the PO Create Documents item type.

This process activity is also runnable, indicating that it can be initiated as a top-level process to run by making calls to the Workflow Engine CreateProcess and StartProcess APIs.

The Create And Approve Purchase Order Or Release process is initiated by the activity Launch Process To Create/Approve PO or Release.

The process begins at node 1.

Node 2 creates the purchase order or release. For those documents created successfully, node 3 sends a notification to the buyer that the document has been created.

Node 4 checks if the item attribute Is Automatic Approval Allowed? is set to Y for Yes. If it is, node 5 launches the PO Approval workflow to approve the purchase order or release. Node 6 indicates that the workflow should continue with the final activities in the Overall Document Creation/Launch Approval process.