When a new document is added to the doc library, a task email is sent to the approvers to review the doc. The due date for the task can be set in the workflow. If one of the approvers, approves the doc, the workflow is ended. Go to the document library, and from the ribbon, click on Workflow settings – Add a workflow In Add a workflow page, select Approval workflow and enter a name for the workflow Note – The out of box workflows are of SharePoint 2010 template. To use SharePoint 2013 template, the workflow has to be created with SharePoint Designer 2013. Also, if there are no approval workflow templates, go to Site Settings – Site collection features and activate Workflow. Set the workflow to be started manually and when an item is created. As approvers, a person or group can be set. If there is more than one stage of approval, a new stage can be added and the action can be set to follow the parallel or serial sequence. In parallel sequence, the approval stages will happen to
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