Custom Workflows in ContentDB (OCS 10.1.2.3.0)

Hi,
One of our clients is doing couple of enhancements to their ContentDB system. As part of this enhancement, I'm looking for a better understanding about how Parallel-Vote works internally and would really appreciate if you could direct me to some pointers for the same. Please find below details on the Scenario/Requirement that I'm implementing.
Scenario
Before a document can be moved into Folder-X in ContentDB, it goes through a parallel-vote approval process. For this, we have defined a Parallel-Vote-Custom-Workflow on Folder-X (this gets triggered off on the "Move" event on Folder-X).
As a result of this, whenever a document is moved into Folder-X, an approval request is raised - and an authorized person needs to approve it.
Requirement
1. When this document is approved to be placed into Folder-X, they want the same document to be copied into another folder "Folder-Y" as well.
2. The approval request title has the format "Move Request for Document-A". The request-title needs to be tweaked to just say "Document-A" without the rest of the message. (Its a nice-to-have feature)
To implement these, I'm trying to understand how Parallel-Vote is internally implemented in ContentDB. Is this internally implemented using a BPEL process? I checked the Custom Workflows defined in OEM and could not find Parallel/Serial Vote listed among them. So am just trying to find out, is there a way I can get a hook to the approval process happening internally so that I can implement the above requirements.
Thanks
Antony

We've done it on a seperate AS 10.1.2.0.2, it works and i'ts normally a supported configuraiton. Of course you will also need an OCS database to store ocs data.

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