Adding manual decisions to a workflow
Many times in a workflow process people need to make decisions that will affect the path that the process will take. Most of the time these are approvals that need to be obtained, reviews that need to be performed, or tests that need to be taken.
You can build this into your workflow by adding Manual decision workflow elements, which can be assigned to a single person, or multiple people. If you assign a decision to multiple people, the approval step could require one, a majority, or all the people in order to complete successfully.
In this recipe, we will show how you can add a Manual decision workflow element to allow users to control the workflow process.
How to do it...
To add a Manual decision workflow element to a workflow, follow these steps:
Open your workflow in design mode, and from the Workflow elements palette select the Manual decision element and drop it onto your workflow.
Re-link the workflow process so that the Manual decision element is a...
