If you choose to add and apply the Basic Approval workflow, a document can be in one of the following three states
Review - while the page is awaiting review
Approved - when the page has been approved
Rejected - when the page is rejected
Each time the document is edited the in the Approved or Rejected state the workflow will be reset back to the Review state (the updated transition).
Adding or removing a label or attachment does not action the updated transition when the content is in either the Approved or Rejected state. This transition only occurs if the content is edited and published (changing the Confluence page version).
Review state
The Review state has a content review.
Approved state
The Approved state is defined as the final
(or published) state in the workflow.
The final
state can be used with the Comala Publishing for Cloud app to publish page content to a different space.
Rejected state
The Rejected state also has a content review
Workflow history
The workflow popup has an Activity report button to display the workflow history.
Adding Assignees
You can assign people to review a document, together with a note.
If you assign multiple people to review a document each person will need to give their approval before the document becomes approved.
Navigating between Versions
When an approved document has been edited, it transitions to the Reviewstate.
In this moment, there are two versions or views of the same document
the previously approved version of the document - the document in the state Approved
and the document with the latest modification - the document in the Review state
If we are in the Review state, we can always navigate to the document previously approved version, with the View approved link.
In the Approvedstate we can always navigate to the current content that is awaiting review with the View pending approval link.
The Approved (Compare versions) link will display details of the current version of the content.