Approval Workflow in SharePoint 2007

Hi,

You can try to use a replicatorActivity where to include the CreateTask, OnTaskChanged, CompleteTask. To ChildInitialized you can set a name for a method to invoke let's say: InitChildActivityInstance where you set:

Person person = (Person)e.InstanceData;

activity.taskID = Guid.NewGuid();

activity.workflowProperties = this.workflowProperties;

In this way for each person from approvers will be created a new ActivityInstance and also as you can see a new task : activity.taskID = Guid.NewGuid();

What do you mean by "the form should go into a completed state."? You can set in InfoPath rules : for example if the user approved a task, then the infopath form which corespond to that task can for example have reject button and approve button hidden just like in the standard approval workflow.

For passing data from workflow to infopath forms you can make a new Data Connection of type "Receive data" in infopath. Form the workflow you can set this data and then the infopath form will know about those data. If you have more questions about this, i will help you.

Anyway if this topic was already solved, maybe my post will help somebody else.

Pamy.

pamy at 2007-9-12 >

Hi Pamy,

I have the following scenario I want to build. I hope you can help me.

What I have done so far : I created an Infopath form. In this infopath form I am looking up the current user that is filling out the form. From another datasource I am looking up the manager's username of this user.

What I want to do : Now I need an approval process where the approver is the manager, that I lookup in the form. I want the manager to approve/reject directly in the infopath form and not to switch between form and sharepoint task to approve or reject.

Is there any way I can accomplish this with a minimum of coding ? :-)

Thanks already for your help.

Bjoern

bjoernscher at 2007-9-12 >

I am also working on this same problem. I want our workflow to email the manager as defined within the form, and have that manager fill out an additional section within that form. Once the manager has filled out thier portion of the form, I want the workflow to notify the IT department that the form is ready for their approval.

If anyone has built a workflow like this, please let me know.

Thanks.

AndyStout at 2007-9-12 >