Answered Publishing Workflow OOB & SPD

  • martes, 07 de junio de 2011 3:31
     
     

    Good evening,

    I have OOB Publishing Workflow working with four "serial" Approvers. How do I configure to permit Approver 2,3, or 4 if they edit and submit a page, then the workflow skips any lower Approvers, and proceeds with only the higher level Approvers?

    Example: Approver 3 edits, and submits a page. Rather than proceeding with Approver 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Workflow sends task to #4 for final approval.

    Thank you,
    Greg

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  • martes, 07 de junio de 2011 5:53
     
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    If the serial method you're using is just by listing them in the People Picker one at a time delimited by semicolons, then you're going to have to seriously customize the workflow so that it has 4 individual Task processes with conditions in front of each one that verifies the creator/modifier of the page and skips approvals based on their identity (if applicable).

    I haven't tried this, but inside the task process area that you already have, you may be able to add a nested conditional statement before the task is actually sent that lets you avoid creating the task and instead skips to the next.  Or, since the workflow expects that person to get a task, maybe you could let it create the task and automatically approve it without notifying the user.


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  • martes, 01 de mayo de 2012 9:22
     
     

    Hi Greg,

    Hope you would have been able to implement this scenario? Can you please share your technical approach?

    Regards Amit