Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Laura’s 5 Minute Workflow Dujour: Email for content moderator to approve or reject
Feedback and approval workflows are not available out of the box in WSS. In this five minute screencast, Laura shows how to quickly build a workflow sending email to the content moderator to approve or reject.
Nice easy solution to bridge the gap between WSS and MOSS.
My only concern is IT Security would be doen our throats for allowing patient data to be in Sharepoint but that’s outside the scope of this.
Good work.
CORRECTION:
When you paste the URL into the email, do NOT remove the &source information from the end of the url like I did in the demo.
Laura
Eric,
What’s the difference between having patient data in SharePoint, versus any other internal server or database or file share? We patient data in SharePoint, and we don’t have a security issue with it.
Laura
Thanks for this and the many other posts. I always do better when I have examples. Yours have helped me tremendously. I actually have a request for something very simular to this post.
Laura. do you have these steps written down somewhere? This is great stuff, especially on video but i’d like to go back to the written steps when setting something up similar here.
Mary Lou – You can find the steps documented here:
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1769
I look forward to reading and watching the other tips you offer here. thank you so much for taking the time to share.
I love this solution and it works fine for a few people, however here’s my issue. I am using this on a calendar, staff enter “new” entry in calendar and add in their supervisor and this workflow kicks off to allow that supervisor to approve the vacation.
The lady I set this up for, it works for (meaning her staff can submit requests and she is able to approve) however when this lady submits a request and it goes to her supervisor, that supervisor click on the link that allows her to edit the request and gets this message “Value does not fall within the expected range”. I have done some searching on the net about this, but not sure what to do! Thanks for any help you can give!