Approval Workflow Overview

A Workflow enables you to use statuses for work items, so you can track their progress through stages from creation to completion.

Using a workflow with approved and rejected statuses, the reviewer can set a status on the work item as appropriate.

Prerequisites 

Overview

Workflows define a series of stages through which a work item progresses, from creation to completion. The current stage of a work item, the work item status, is displayed on the work item's details pane. The work item status enables to monitor and update the progress of a work item through the workflow.

  • Pending — Work item is awaiting an Approved or Rejected status
  • Approved — Work item is approved
  • Rejected — Work item is rejected

can update the status of a work item at any time. When a new work item is created, the status is set to Pending by default. If  open a new interview in a work item that has already been Approved, the status of the work item will return to Pending to reflect the state of the new work item version.

Common Tasks

Among others, workflows enables you to perform the following common tasks:

Common Reference Topics

Among others, the following reference topics may relate to this conceptual area: