Hello SharePoint peeps,
I am hoping to solve an issue that senior management has with usability (lack of) in SharePoint (2013 in this case) when it comes to task approval emails and the painful approval process that follows. The current solution is to click open the task itself from email and guesstimate your way to the workflow approval step. This OOB approach is functional but not effective solution and lacks the charm that we all know SharePoint is hiding somewhere 🙂
I am aware of item view and item edit page URLs from SPD but is there a unique URL for each task that you can add to SharePoint Designer task email that directly takes you to approve page for that task (goal is- reduce clicks and guess for approval)? If we need to take this a step further with a one click approve from email itself, I appreciate any guidance. I hear some third party solutions also address this, I’m more curious about custom or OOB solution unless third party is absolutely required.
Thank You for your time!
Samir Raut
Hi
We needed the same thing and so through a workflow we added the task ID to an infopath form so once the task has been generated for each approver it will be added to the form through the workflow It is not quite as elegant as the K2 solution(which we will be moving to shortly) but it works
you need to capture the ID from the tasks list and add that to the WEBURL, they will then open the form click the approval/reject button and your done.
