Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Publishing Workflows

Aside from the out-of-the-box workflows, which are used throughout site collection document libraries and lists, publishing pages throughout SharePoint Server 2007 site collections provisioned from the Publishing Portal site template include a workflow approval mechanism based on the approval workflow (parallel approval). This workflow manages the content approval process and controls the content published by content authors throughout publishing sites and site collections.

The approval workflow tied in with the publishing page will alert the owner of the page so that the owner can either accept or reject the changes, as shown in Figure 10-3.

Figure 10-3. The approval stage of the publishing workflow, as seen by the owner of ...