I am using SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2010 Approval Workflow. I have a Lib with two people fields. Approver 1 and Approver 2. I want to pass these values to SPD 2010 Approval Workflow (Instead of doing hardcoded on Approval Stages in browser) so that I can assign approver dynamically. my SPD 2010 OOTB WF is not receiving the approvers from the form. Email is always sent to person who initiate the request and gets the message that "Instead of xxx person assiggning the Task to "originator"
Can you please provide me the solution on this
I can't see any easy way you will be able to do this. I would advise you rethink your workflow?
Perhaps you could just use the standard approval workflow (library settings -> workflow settings -> create new workflow (approval)) - there is an option when setting this up to allow users to specify who they want the approvers to be. So when the user starts the workflow manually, they can choose who the approvers are. This might fit your needs?
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All,
I'm new to SharePoint, and I was wondering if there was a way to have a group of users complete a task (perhaps a form that needs answered), and then have that form, or the answers given in that form, be sent to another group of users to look into and follow-up on? Perhaps it could be moved to a specific folder?
Google hasn't turned up much of anything in the way of clear answers.
The mechanism you are mentioning is like a SharePoint Approval workflow or an approval flow.
Just like teylyn said, you can choose SharePoint Designer workflow or Power automate depends on the version of SharePoint you are using.
How to determine the SharePoint version I am using.
And SharePoint has its own built-in approval workflow template for directly use. It is a bit old but easy to configure and ready to be used.
An example for SharePoint designer 2013 platform approval workflow here.
2010 Platform approval workflow
One thing just for your notice, there are two different types of workflows, 2010 platform workflow and 2013 platform workflow. You can create a 2010 platform as long as you installed SharePoint Designer. However it is needed to install and configure workflow manager to use 2013 platform workflow.
Flow tutorial here.
Hope to be any help.
In SharePoint Online, you can use Power Automate to create business logic workflows, using fields in a SharePoint list that store the current status of a task and information like next reviewer, etc. The Power Automate flow can be either triggered by a button in the form (in which case you would want to design the form with PowerApps) or whenever the item in the SharePoint list is modified.
In SharePoint on premises you can create SharePoint Designer workflows to achieve the same thing.
I am trying to a configure the Sharepoint 2010- Approval workflow to the list. I have activated the "Workflow" under site collection features. After enabling, under the "Add a workflow" in list > workflow setting, the template name is not displayed. Kindly help me to enable this approval workflow on Sharepoint 2013.
The issue was due to Microsoft workflow interruption. Check the global admin site in case if you received the message from Microsoft specifying the same.
How to develop role based workflow with InfoPath form in SharePoint Server 2010?
There are three roles:
user1 - this user creates request form
user2 - this user verifies and Approve/Reject form if user Approves mail will sent to user3.
user3
How to develop this type of workflow?
Please explain sharepoint designer workflow actions?
The exact steps, of course, will depend on what precisely you're trying to accomplish. Based on what I've read, and the tags on the question, it would appear that you want:
An InfoPath request form (created by a certain kind of user)
An approval process for that form
Someone to be notified when the approval is completed
Your exact needs could considerably change how this works; for example, do you need the approval to happen on the form itself? e.g. I can click the filled in Request form as an approver and then click Approve or Deny
Or do you need the basic SharePoint approval? I'm operating under this assumption.
To accomplish this you can have your InfoPath form submit to a library and have a workflow run when an item is created. This workflow then starts an approval process. When complete, use the send email action to notify the group that needs to be notified.
Again, more information can net a more complete solution, but this should get you started down the right track.
I am new to MOSS development and while I'm learning it I have a problem waiting to be solved.
We are using the standard approval workflow in one of our test sites just to get the feel of the approval workflow. We have the standard approval workflow in place and working but what has become more desirable is to have the document set to readonly mode after its approval.
What should be my approach to configure/implement this feature?
Custom ItemUpdating event handler on the workflow task list - check the status of the task, and if it is Approved, get the Item object through the task workflow association and adjust permissions on the Item.
Or you start a second workflow - depending on the approval workflow outcome. Create a SharePoint Designer Workflow using the custom activities to set the item permissions.
To set the item permissions download the Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
The advantage of this approach is, that you do not need to write code to create an Eventhandler.
How can I use SharePoint's Content Approval to enforce the rule that any two people in a group can make a change?
We have a policy library that any two individuals can update (a modifier and an approver). If I do a group parallel approval, the modifier can approve their own work (I believe).
Unfortunately, I don't have access to Visual Studio or even SharePoint Designer (as these have been disabled by corporate).
It is straight forward
Add two users to approver group, Assign the workflow task to the Approvers group. Any one from the group can approve the workflow to initiate its next phase