Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step

Working with Workflows

You might want to route a document through an approval process before publishing it. You can create workflows within the document library without contacting your System Administrator.

There are several different ways to create workflows; you’ll create a new workflow associated with the Oak Furniture document library. To create this workflow, you first need to specify at least three stages for the new workflow.

In the following exercise, you will add a site column to the Oak Furniture document library that gives you a choice for each workflow state.

Note

USE the practice file Oakchest.docx in the practice file folder for this chapter. The practice file is located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\SBS_WSSv3\Chapter 05 folder.