An Overview of Other Standard Workflows

The previous example of the Three-State workflow could be considered a form of “tough love” because it is a fairly complex workflow in terms of end-user interactivity requirements. Microsoft’s decision to make this available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 but not the other standard SharePoint Server 2010 workflows is somewhat mysterious. For organizations using SharePoint Server 2010, the following additional workflows should be tested and may well prove to be more useful than the Three-State workflow:

Approval— An Approval workflow routes a document for approval. Approvers can approve or reject the document, reassign the approval task, or request changes to the document.

Collect Feedback— This routes ...

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