I asked this before but didn't get an answer that fixes our problem. We have a custom approval workflow for Vendor Bills and the accounting preference for Approval Routing for Vendor Bills is turned on. The workflow is working but we want to be able to use the native Approve Bills page (for bulk approval). For some reason, it doesn't show the Vendor Bills pending approval. Also, do we need to select an Action (WF state) on that page, so that it'll work. Tried that but didn't work as well.

The native approve bills page will not include any vendor bills that use a custom approval workflow. We have observed this in our environment as well using SuiteApprovals for vendor bills.

Ohhh thanks. What do you use for bulk approval? Did you build a custom page? Or just didn't care about having a bulk approval option?

My first inclination was to build a Suitelet to handle that part but we put it on hold since it wasn't top priority. We use suitelets for a lot of bulk transaction processing (bulk SO approval, bulk PO Ack, bulk SO cancellations, bulk fulfillments) where the user can pick a bunch of records which end up in an array that gets passed from the client script to a secondary Suitelet that handles the "dirty work" (passing the array of internal ids to whichever process it needs to work on)

I use the native Approve Bills page with a custom workflow. Just need to make sure that you have Vendor Bills checked under Accounting Preferences > Approval Routing. Also make sure you are using the native Next Approver and Approval Status fields

Yeah, I do this all the time