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
Ajeet, thank you for response. Are you referring to something like this?
If XSLT based solution has less clicks though, I want to learn more about it. Our main goal is to reduce clicks and guessing from the email to the approval step, so I’m open to SPD, third party, Visual studio ideas to get there.
Thanks
Thanks, Tomasz. I’ll have to look into it. What is the name of this particular solution.
Hi Sameer,
You can do it by SPD but need to modifications in List View.
You need to create/modify list with with one new link. Link will be made of using XSLT, where you can pass link of Approval page with id of that item.
But the main part is XSLT.
Hi Samir,
As far as I remember Nintex has such option – lazy approval. Unfortunately It’s paid solution.
Regards
Tomasz Szulczewski
