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Jul 2, 2010

'You were trying to expedite / skip the Ship activity. The system does not allow activities to be skipped because

This post is about the Error message
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'You were trying to expedite / skip the Ship activity. The system does not allow activities to be skipped because it can result in data corruption. To process workflow, the line should be shipped using the Oracle Shipping application. Please contact your system administrator for assistance and do not attempt to skip activities in the future.".

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Many of you get this message when you try to FORCE the workflow  and so many user have question that they never came across this error on FORCING workflow and why now .


This particular error message was introduce in the some of the letest vesrion of 11i in API OE_Shipping_WF  with the aim to discourage user to FORCE the workflow ( as 80% of the corruption are beause of FORCING workflow).


So if you have apply a patch that compile the latest vesrion of this API then their are fare chances that you will get this error when you try to FORCE the workflow.

So please donot FORCE the workflow

8 comments:

  1. Hi,

    People who sell services they doesn't need shipping module then how can we skip the shipping process. Here my requirement is Once I book the order for service items, it should be closed then how can i change my workflow..Plz explain the steps to change the workflow setups.

    Thanks,
    Mahesh.

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  2. Hi Mahesh

    When you process Order Line for Service Item , based on item type code system will take care of that,you need not to worrry about skipping shipping .Moreover we have Bill only Workflow in case you don't want to SHIP even the shippable items ( business requirement in many industries)

    OM use combination of Item attribute and Workflow to decided about the processing.

    Hope that helps

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  3. Plz explain one scenario with navigations and all..It will be helpful to me.

    Thanks,
    Mahesh.

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  4. Hey Mahesh

    Check if this is of any help to you.
    http://eoracleapps.blogspot.com/2010/02/bill-only.html

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  5. Hi,

    While defining items if we uncheck the shippable check box under order management tab it will skip the shipping process right? As Bill only transaction type too using order flow- generic workflow under fullfilment flow same as Standard transaction type.

    Thanks,
    Mahesh

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  6. Oracle OrderManagement don't decide about Shippable /Non Shippable based on the Attribute , Rather it uses combination of Item Attribute as well as Workflow Assocated with the Order line to decide the final Outcome.
    You can attach Bill Only flow to a Shippable line, Since Bill Only flow don't have shippable activity , line will not be shipped.Similarly if you define the item as NON Shippable and assign generic flow , System will not push the data to Shipping table even though you are using Generic workflow , eg. KIT .

    You can play around with workflow ( I mean by means of customizating) to fulfill your need .

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  7. Thank you so much for clearing my doubt.

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  8. Hi Mahesh

    Good to hear that your issue is resolved.


    Thanks

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