The Approval Workflow is a workflow present in the default installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The inclusion of features such as workflow within sharepoint has certainly given a great new touch to the product and the resulting benefits can be truly useful. The workflow in question, in fact, offers advanced features with regard to the approval of a generic object, I say generic because the flow of approval may be linked both to the elements of a document library, which the elements of a simple list (as may be a schedule or list of news), and the modification of the contents of a content page (in SharePoint sites with the publishing feature activated.) These are the characteristics of the workflow:
- approval of the transactions are divided into task
- ability to manage the flow in parallel or in series mode
- rules for assigning tasks to individual users or user groups
- ability to delegate the execution of a task to another user (or group)
- ability to reassign a task to another user (or group)
- option to terminate the workflow first refusal (in multi-task)
- ability to update information on the state of the end of the workflow
- to add a voting system object
- option to terminate the workflow if the content object is changed
Given all these features, I would say that we can all agree that the approval system default Sharepoint Services is clearly outdated by the introduction of this workflow.
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