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sharepoint hierarchical workflow

Dears,

I have a SharePoint custom list form. If a new item is inserted then I need a hierarchical workflow to approve it.

I mean if a user inserted a new item to this list then it must approve from his manager. So the item will be visible for all users once its approved from his manager.

How can I achieve this. I am using SharePoint 2010.

Regards
Shaji

Jamie McAllister

Even on a custom list you can add the out of the box Approval workflow to achieve this.

Go to your list and in the ribbon find "Workflow Settings".

Within there you can add a workflow. Add "Approval - SharePoint 2010" and set the approver to be your manager.

Make sure the advanced list settings are set to 'require content approval' for items in your custom list. Job done.

mshaji

ASKER

Hi,

This is fixed. Instead I need it to be dynamic. I mean, each employee's manager will be diffident. If an employee inserted an item to this list from HR department then it should approve from HR department manager, If an employee inserted an item to this list from finance department then it should approve from finance department manager, and so on.

So how we can achieve this type of workflow.

Regards,

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mshaji

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Thanks dear FastFngrz for the kind support.

Actually in the installed SharePoint, my sites and user prifile pages are not found. Then I followed some instructions to activate and implement my sites and my profile services. But unfortunately i stuck.

While I create User profile page by going through Create site collection and used template as My Site Host under Enterprise then I got error like:

The operation that you are attempting to perform cannot be completed successfully. No content databases in the web application were available to store your site collection. The existing content databases may have reached the maximum number of site collections, or be set to read-only, or be offline, or may already contain a copy of this site collection. Create another content database for the Web application and then try the operation again.

Any Idea about this issue

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mshaji

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I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

For time being delete it and later i will ask it agian

Jamie McAllister

mshaji,

You have effectively asked three different questions in this thread and received a lot of expert input. Rather than deleting and re-asking the question I suggest you award some points for the work provided. There is plenty of good reference material here other users would find useful.

Jamie McAllister

I recommend option 3.

There are three questions asked in this thread;

1. How to add an Approval workflow to a custom list

2. How to have dynamic approvers for workflows

3. How to enable User Profiles in SharePoint Foundation

Each question is answered correctly in posts;

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Therefore I suggest that points are split across each of these posts equally at Grade A.