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.

For example, you may 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