Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Creating and Customizing an Approval Workflow

Given that task workflows include so many features, the only way to fully understand their capabilities is to create one. In the following pages I take you through the conditions, steps, and actions within an Approval Task. For the purposes of understanding the features you are going to create a content type workflow on the Document content type, which is common to all out-of-the-box Document libraries, such as the Shared Documents library. You create a content type workflow and it forms the basis of all examples explaining task approval workflows.

The steps in the following example take you through customizing the out-of-the-box approval workflow:

1. In SharePoint Designer click on the workflow section ...