Approval workflow in SharePoint foundation 2010

Question

Hello Experts,
I'm using SharePoint foundation 2010. Can someone help me understand the procedure for creating the approval workflow for a doc library using the SharePoint designer 2010. It would be great if you can guide me the step by step procedure for setting up this
workflow.
Thanks. 

Answer 1

Hi rebel537,
As you described, you are using SharePoint Foundation 2010. There is no “Start approval process” action when you edit SharePoint Foundation 2010 workflow in SharePoint
designer 2010.
I suggest you using “collect data from a user” action instead of “start approval process” action to complete the approval task. There is a demo for your reference.
1.  
Open the SPD, navigate to the workflow edit zone. Select “collect data from a user “action.
2.  
Click data, in the pop-up window, click next and enter the task name for the approval workflow.
3.  
Click next, define the fields for the task, for this demo, there has a field “approval result”.
4.  
Then click finish.  Back to the workflow edit zone, click user, in the pop-up window, select the user for the task then click finish ,back to the workflow edit zone.
5.  
Add a condition (if any value equals value) after the action.
6.  
Click the first value, and then click Fx, there goes to a pop-up window, enter as below.
Data source:  Association: Task List
Field from source: Approval Result
Field: ID
Value:  Variable: collect
7.  
 Set another value to “Yes”, add the action” set workflow statue”, set it to approval.   Add an If-Else branch, set the workflow statue to reject.
8.  
Publish the workflow, and use it for the approval purpose.
Thanks,
Simon