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Overview

One or more document approvals macros can be added to a page to display information on the approvals for the workflow on a page. Each macro can be configured to display the approval information for a different state in the workflow.

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The document approvals macro information for a workflow state is shown as a table, with one header row per approval and one row per assignee reviewer of each approval.

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The macro can be configured to display

  • the state for the required approvalsthe approval in the specified state (or in the case of a state with multiple approvals a list of approvals)(s) in a state

  • the overall

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    status of the approval

  • the list of assignees that belong to for each approval

  • assignee (name and avatar)

  • status

    details of the

    approve/reject action that this specific assignee has undertaken for that specific approval
  • date of when that action has taken place

  • comment added, if any, to that action

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  • assignee decision

Several separate document approval macros can be added to content to display information for different approvals in different states.  If the named approval does not exist (mis-spelt, renamed or removed) the macro will ignore that approval.

(info) The document approvals macro is only displayed on the page if a workflow is applied.

Adding the macro to a page

Edit the page and type /doc and select the document approval macro option.

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Choose Document Approvals to add the macro to the draft page.

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By default the macro displays the current workflow state name and the approvals in the state.

Select the macro and choose the pencil icon to open the macro editor.

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If the The State dialog box is left empty by default and the macro will display the approval information for the current workflow state.

With no checkboxes completed the macro only lists the name of the approvals for the state.

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Select the Show status checkbox in the macro editor to display the overall status of the approval.

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a separate row is added for each approval in the state

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If a reviewer has been assigned, the information for each reviewer will be displayed in a separate row.

A separate column is added for each selected checkbox

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in the macro editor to display

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information for each approval.

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Info

When the approval is configured to require a minimum number of reviewers, a separate unassigned reviewer row is displayed for each required reviewer. These are populated as a user(s) is assigned or undertakes a review decision.

Transitioning the content

The information displayed by the macro is dynamic.

No state specified

If a state is not specified in the macro editor, transitioning the workflow to a different state will display the approval information for the new current state.

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No approval in state

If there is no approval in the current state the document approvals macro will display the following message for the state.

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State specified

Setting a state in the document approvals macro editor displays the approval information for that state, irrespective of the current state. On a transition from the specified state, the macro table displays the individual approval status with a separate row displaying the overall status for the approval in the specified state.

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(blue star) If there is no approval in the specified state the document approvals macro will display the following message for the state..

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Configuring the macro

The overall status is displayed

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Configuring the macro

The macro can be configured to display approval information on the page.

Display approvals in a named state

Approval information can be displayed for a single named state added to the macro editor.

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The macro will display the current approval information for this state irrespective of the current workflow state for the content.

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Check the macro editor checkboxes to display one or more of the following

  • the overall status for each approval in the state (Pending, Rejected, Approved or Approved and Signed)

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If there is more than one approval in the state, add the name of the approval to be displayed in the Approvals order option. Multiple approvals in a case will be listed in the comma separated order (with no spaces) that they are added to this option box.

Check the required boxes to configure the macro to display one or more of

  • the users assigned to each approval as reviewers - Show status

  • the reviewers for each approval by checking one or both

    • Show assignee reviewer avatar

    • Show assignee reviewer name

  • the current status of each reviewer’s decision for the approval (Pending, Rejected, Approved, Approved and Signed, Unassigned) - Show Statusstatus

  • the date each reviewer’s last action (if any) - Show date

  • any comment added by the reviewer on undertaking their last recorded action

Selected macro options are previewed in the macro on the draft page.

Publish the page to view the document approvals macro displayed in the page subtitle on the content.

Example use of the document approvals macro

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If Show status is checked, both the status of the overall approval and (if reviewer avatar or reviewer name is checked) the current decision for each reviewer is displayed.

Display approvals reviewer and status information for the current workflow state

Leave the State dialog box empty to display approval information for the current workflow state.

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The approvals for the current workflow state will be displayed.

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If a workflow transition occurs the approvals macro will display approval information for the new workflow state.

Multiple approvals in a state

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If there is more than one approval in a state each approval is listed in a separate row.

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Approval information is displayed for multiple approvals in a state by alphabetical order of approval names.

Each reviewer(s) for an approval is displayed in a separate row.

To limit or set an order for the display of selected approvals in a state, add the name of each approval as a comma-separated list (with no spaces) in the Approvals order dialog box.

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Approvals are displayed in the order that they are added in the comma-separated list.

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Use with other macros

Tip

The document approvals macro is compatible with the Confluence Page Properties macro and the Page Properties Report macro.

On the draft page, add the one or more document approvals macro as a table value in the page properties macro.This is displayed on the published page in a table.

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The page properties report macro can then be added to a page to report the value of the example page property we created - Comala Management App - Approvals detailson the added values.

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Exporting pages to pdf and Word

The approvals macro table of information is included when exporting to pdf or Word.

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In the pdf and Word export the date (if included in the macro configuration) is in UTC format.

Reviewer avatars are not included in the pdf or Word export.