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
Glad to share, Samir. If you decide to try this and need assistance, just let me know. I’m finding for auditing purposes this is the best way to do the approvals as all of the approval data is with the form and can easily be archived.
What we’re looking at doing with our older forms is archiving to PDF for off-SQL storage. For the forms from our SP2007 environment, it means I also have to store the hidden workflow history lists so that I have the “proof” that the forms were approved.
