A High-Level Overview of Workflows

Workflows are a complex topic and justify their own chapter, which is Chapter 28, “Out-of-the-Box Workflows and Designer 2010 Workflows,” but because the Workflow tool is provided in the Documents tab on the Ribbon, it should be covered at this time from a high level.

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The three-state workflow is the only workflow template provided in SharePoint Foundation 2010, while others are available in SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 Standard and Enterprise provides the following workflow templates: Disposition Approval, Publishing Approval, Collection Signatures, Approval, and Collection Feedback.

A workflow must have been created by a document library administrator for it to be available to users ...

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