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Workflow History

To view the record of who has approved or rejected the current page select Workflow History from the page tools menu (ellipsis menu).

All approvals and rejections together with comments and expirations will be recorded in the page workflow history.

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If a user has been disabled or deleted the workflow history will display the users username and the default avatar. The username name is the stored user display name for the instance.

The current Workflow History can also be viewed by

  • choosing the page tools menu Attachments option

  • choose the Workflow Report tab

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Document Activity

The Document Activity is a report of the workflow related changes for a page or blog post.

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The document activity report shows the workflow lifecycle activity on the page or blog post. The chronological report can include for each listed document activity

  • changes of workflow state including the destination state

  • the user who undertook the document activity

  • the type of document activity - approval decision, reviewer assignment

  • the date and time of each listed document activity

  • the document version at the time of each document activity

If the activity is actioned by the workflow, the app icon is displayed. For example,

  • the expiry of a due date for a state

  • a transition caused by the expiry of a due date

  • when an approval takes place, the transition based on the approval decision is shown as being undertaken by the workflow.

A link to the Confluence document version at the time of the event is included for each individual document activity.

Viewing the document activity report

The Document Activity for a page or blog post can be displayed by choosing Document Activity in the

  • page tools menu

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  • workflow popup ellipsis menu

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Document Activity can also be displayed using the Activity Report button in the workflow popup if the page or blog post is currently in the final state.

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If there is no active workflow on the content but

workflow history

document activity was retained the page tools 

Workflow History

Document Activity option will not be available

but any previous workflow history

. The retained document activity can still be

viewed in this tab by opening Attachments.

(warning) A user with edit or admin permission can clear the workflow history for a page by deleting the Workflow History attachment.

(info) Space admins can also choose to remove workflow history for all content in the space using the Clear workflow history option in the space settings Document Management dashboard.

Document Management Workflow Report for the space

To see a report for the entire space choose the Workflow Report link on the left sidebar. This space report can be filtered by the current status or by approvals that are assigned to you as the current user.

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accessed in the Custom Contents screen for the page.

In the page tools menu

  • choose Attachments > Custom Contents

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In the Custom Contents screen

  • choose the Comala Document Management tab

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The Document Activity report is listed as a custom content item for the page. You can choose the Document Activity item to view the report.

The Document Activity item is displayed with

  • its Creation Date (identifies the date and time of the last document activity)

  • the Creator (the Comala app user - 'CC' )

The Delete action removes the recorded document activity from the page.

Delete can be used by a user with edit or admin permission to delete the Document Activity

The Document Activity item will not be available in the Custom Contents screen if the page has no active workflow and the document activity was removed/no workflow had been previously applied.

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If a user has been disabled or deleted the document activity will display the username and the default avatar. The username name is the stored user display name for the site.

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Document Report

The Document Report lists all the pages and blog posts in a space report that currently have an active workflow applied.

To view the Document Report the user must have at least space administrator permission for the space.

To view the Document Report

  • choose the Comala Document Management option in the Confluence sidebar menu

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The Document Report can be filtered by the current workflow state for a workflow on a page or blog post using the displayed buttons for each state.

My Pending Approvals

You can see the approvals that are assigned to you in the current space in the workflow report.

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If there are multiple approvals in a state the reviewer avatars are replaced by the named approval avatar. Choose the approval avatar to view the assigned reviewers for an approval.

When there are multiple approvers assigned choose a reviewer to view details of all the reviewers for the approval.

The approver list is read-only. You can sort and filter the display.

You can also use a search filter on the Confluence search to find pages that are assigned to a specific person (see below).

Document state macro

Add the document state page macro to display one or more of the current workflow state; the date of the change to the state; and the state expiry date (if a state expiry has been added).

The document state macro is compatible with the Confluence page properties macro and page properties report macro.

Document approvals macro

Add the document approvals macro page macro to display information for approvals in a selected workflow stat. The macro can be configured to display the overall status of the approval; the approval assignees; the latest approval decision for each assignee; the date of the reviewer decision and the reviewer comment.

The document approvals macro is compatible with the Confluence page properties macro and page properties report macro.

Confluence Search Filters for Macros

Confluence provides some macros that support CQL filters, like the Content by label macro or the Page properties report macro. Comala Document Management adds a filter for "Workflow state".

REST API CQL fields

If you are searching with a separate reporting/scripting tool, for example, Reporting for Confluence from ServiceRocket or ScriptRunner for Confluence from Adapatavist, using the Confluence REST API the following field names should be used:

Field

Field name

Workflow state

cw_state

Assigned approver

cw_approver

Note that cw_state search is case sensitive

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cql=cw_approver="userID" and cw_state="Approved"