I'm new to SharePoint and I'd like to develop a Leave Form Application which utilizes the Approval Workflow, but I cannot find it on SharePoint Foundation 2010. How can I enable it? I have already tried many methods which I found on Google, but I still have no clue. Please guide me.
I found the answer; as I was using SharePoint Foundation, there are now out-of-the-box workflows provided except for the three-state Workflow.
From your document library:
Click library tab
Click library settings tile
Select Workflow Settings Link
Click Add a Workflow link
Approval should be in the Workflow Template list
If that doesn't work, check your site collection features and insure workflows is activated.
Simple approval workflow can be activate ddirectly from library settings:
Go to your list->library settings in the ribbon->versionning settings->allow approval content option to yes...
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Good morning. I am using SharePoint 2013 but created a SharePoint 2010 Reusable Workflow in SharePoint Designer. It is an Approval workflow that I want to use on 5 different Meet-Me line request lists. The workflow is the same for all except that the approval email that goes to the requester has the different meet-me line info (access codes, etc). Is there a way to customize the reusable workflow for each line? Thank you.
Scott
Its a good question but I don't think Microsoft provided any option to customize the reusable work flow.
I also tried before but no luck.
I am fairly new in SharePoint Development and configuration. I need to create a list that when a entry is created, it will email the selected person to approves the entry.
Right now, I have already created the list and will be setting-up the workflow configuration, but the problem is that the 'Approval-SharePoint 2010' Workflow template is missing.
How can I work around this? Or can I download the template and install it in the Server SharePoint 2013?
You haven't mentioned which version of SharePoint you are running. I presume because you don't have the option available you are running SharePoint 2013 Foundation.
SharePoint 2013 Foundation doesn't use support the Workflow Manager and uses the same workflow engine that SharePoint 2010 Foundation uses- this doesn't include the approval workflow.
The Approval-SharePoint 2010 workflow template comes with SharePoint Standard or SharePoint Enterprise. See here for feature comparisons between versions:
https://blog.blksthl.com/2013/01/14/sharepoint-2013-feature-comparison-chart-all-editions/
Unfortunately, having tried various things myself, the options are upgrade to at least SharePoint standard or build a custom workflow. Customer workflows can be built using SharePoint Designer or as part of a code solution. There are quite a few guides already out there. This is just the first one I came to:
http://plexhosted.com/billing/knowledgebase/226/How-to-create-a-simple-approval-workflow-in-SharePoint-Designer.html
If I am being too presumptuous and your version is higher than Foundation then it might just be that you need to activate the Workflows feature in the site collection features.
I have a solution in VS2012 with a SharePoint 2013 sandboxed project. I have created some custom workflows in 2013.
What I really need to do is to have an approval workflow to publish content, and send out an email when a new document is approved.
My first thought was to use the OOB approval 2010 workflow and use an event receiver on the list. When an item becomes approved, I would send out an email, but I'm unable to send emails programmatically in SharePoint online.
My second thought was to recreate the workflow in 2013, since I know I can send emails out that way, but it looks like the activities related to content approval were removed for 2013 workflows. I can try and do the approvals via rest calls, but my concern was that my workflow will fire every time the item in the list changes (even if it's not a publish), so I will have to check (in the workflow) if the item is being published or not. This will cause the workflow history for the items to become pretty useless as it will be filled with mostly white noise. Also, as far as I can tell, the checkbox when you create an association for "Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item." does not apply to 2013 workflows.
I believe my best answer at this time would be to create a custom 2010 workflow, but I don't see how I can do that from inside VS2012. Can anyone help me (or maybe suggestion another alternative to achieving my goal?)
You can just turn on the old (2007) approval workflows. It sounds like those might work for you.
This article references how to do that, but in short it is under
Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Features -> enable the feature 'SharePoint 2007 Workflows'
Configuring SharePoint 2013 to use legacy workflows
I ended up using an OOB 2010 Workflow and modifying it with SharePoint Designer. Not really the solution I wanted (which was to package ALL of my customizations into a single WSP), but I've spent more time than I should have trying to get it to work.
I'd like to create a custom workflow for SharePoint 2007 (NOT 2010) in Visual Studio. My need is to have a custom parameter when this workflow is attached to the list. These would be parameters that I can reference in the Workflow, like a SharePoint ID, email, or other kind of string.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Sure. They are called Workflow Association (setting default values for workflow) and Initiation (setting/modifying values when starting workflow for each item) Forms:
Association and initiation forms are displayed for users to complete
before any workflow actually starts. You can use these forms to enable
users to set parameters and other information for the workflow in
advance.
You can read Accessing Data from Workflow Association and Initiation Forms in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on MSDN
Somwhere on the way in the article you can encounter the following sentance:
The code shown below is based on the Feedback Collection workflow
sample that is provided with the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK
To have these examples at hand, i would suggest you download and install (so you can see how it's done by yourself):
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK)
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit (if you use
MOSS)
is it possible to create a task in a task list in a site other than the site to which the workflow is deployed to.
thanks
Nope - this isn't supported. The workflow must be deployed to all sites.
I assume you are talking about a SharePoint Designer Workflow and not a Visual Studio workflow where pretty much anything is possible.
You can either create a custom Activity in Visual Studio for use in SharePoint Designer or you use something like the Workflow Power Pack to add a little bit of custom code directly into SharePoint Designer workflows.
Please note that I have worked on the Workflow Power Pack, so consider me somewhat biased :-)