Ok, we will now step up in our Workflow game. We went through simple Workflow setup in previous article, we will now do a new one, with few additional details.

In this article we will focus on assignments in our Workflow states.

As always, if you need more data and details – look into M-Files documentation – https://www.m-files.com/user-guide/2018/eng/using_workflows.html?hl=workflows

We will again focus on the practical part, without too many theory. I done already articles that explain metadata, users, and simple workflows in M-Files. These are all bits you will need to follow this along.

Ok, let’s start.

I will not go through Workflow and state creating steps, since we already done that in Create and Manage Simple Workflow article.

I will just give you the details of my Workflow for this practice. Workflows in these articles are from M-Files documentation.

I created Assign Workflow

Single Assignment Workflow

Editing States

Draft State

Our first step will be to Edit Draft state. Select Actions tab, mark set Properties and click on Define

We will select Reviewers – I created Reviewers property along with Approver property in Create and Manage Simple Workflow article.

This is a prerequisite for Assign to User Action we will use later. We will fetch users from metadata – we will not be selecting users – but using Reviewers as metadata. It will be clearer down the line in this article.

Confirm everything with ok.

Next, up is In Review State

In Review State

Again, we will select Action tab of In Review state, and there we will mark Assign to user and click on Define

Click on Add…

Here is where our Reviewers will serve the purpose. We will select “User from metadata” and click on Reviewers.

Add

I entered description and confirmed everything with ok.

In the end, I added transition from In Review back to Draft in case something is missing. Save the Workflow.

Ok, let’s check out what is going on in M-Files Desktop.

Now, on Administracija1 Client I will create new Document with Assign Workflow. It is in Draft state, and I can add Reviewers to it.

I will add Racunovodstvo1 Account as Reviewer, push it into In Review state and click on Save

Status is now in Review

Let’s move to Racunovodstvo1 Client now to see if we have new assignment

There it is!

We can now push our document into Final state or back to draft

We successfully made transition to Final state

Ok, we resolved one more scenario and now know a few more things about Workflows, let’s go a little further with our knowledge.

Multiple Assignments Workflow

If we want to have more people in approval or assignment process, this is how we will do it.

Edit In Review State

We will edit Actions Tab in In Review state once more. This time we will unselect Assign to user and select Create separate assignments – Add…

Again click on Add button

Again “add users from metadata” and select Reviewers.

Before we close the screen – go to “Select assignment class” and select Assignment (you can also add other classes if you have them)

I went to the properties of Assignment class and opened Assignment Details of the tab – there are two options “Task assignment” – is assignment and allows only completion of the task, while Approval assignment allows user to approve or reject assigned task or document. Have that in mind. We will here go with Task assignment.