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- Login to as the administrative user for the tenant that was created in Confluence.
- Click the Manage link at the top right of the page.
- On the page that is displayed, click the 'Manage Roles' link.
- Click the icon and in the form that is displayed type in the desired role. Make sure that the role names match exactly (including case).
Create the Vacation Request
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View the multi-user workflows video for more information. Read the documentation on creating forms in Confluence. Read the general frevvo documentation on designing forms for a detailed discussion of forms and their features. |
Here are some steps to follow to create the Vacation Request form:
- Add a Confluence Page and Add a form to it.
- Drag and drop controls on the form as desired.
- In the Figure below, we have
- Created a section for the employee called Request.
- Enabled digital signatures for this Section by clicking on the Section header and then on the Security Tab in the properties pane to the left. In the Security Tab, the Must Sign box is checked.
- Created a section for the manager called Manager Approval.
- Enabled digital signatures for this Section.
- Assigned role 'manager' to this Section.
Create the Vacation Request workflow
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View the multi-user workflows video for more information. Read the documentation on adding workflows to Confluence pages. Read the general frevvo documentation on designing workflows for a detailed discussion of frevvo workflows and their features. |
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- Add a Confluence Page (say, Vacation Request Flow) and Add a workflow to it.
- Drag and drop forms into the workflow as desired.
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- Use the Workflow Design Wizard to create two steps:
- Vacation Request - Create New Form - No Assignment
- Manager Approval - Approval Step - Assign to Role - Select the role 'manager'.
- Click the Vacation Request Step. On the Settings tab,
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- set the
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- Continue Label
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- to 'Send to Manager'
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- Click
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- the Manager Approval step, then the Assignment tab. Notice that the assignment was already set for you and some default text was added to the Task Notification email Subject and Message fields. Customize the Email Message to include a link to the Task
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- Click the Messages tab.
Set the Task Info for the second step to 'Vacation Request for {FirstName} {
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LastName}'.
- Set the Pending Msg for the second step to 'Your request has been forwarded to your manager.'
Edit the Vacation Request form
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Read the general frevvo documentation on designing forms for a detailed discussion of forms and their features. |
Here are some steps to follow to create the Vacation Request form:
- Go to Forms editing mode in the Guided Designer Navigation bar of your workflow.
- Notice that the Workflow Design Wizard added several controls for you. You can edit them, remove them, and drag/drop new controls on the form as desired.
- In the Figure below, we have
- Relabeled the My Items section for the employee to 'Request.'
- Added a date control 'Start Date'
- Clicked the Submit button to save the changes.
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- and a Number control 'Number of Days'
- Deleted the wet signature control and enabled digital signatures for this Section by clicking on the Section header and then on the Security Tab in the properties pane to the left. In the Security Tab, Text/Signature image is selected, and the Must Sign box is checked.
Send an Email when the Workflow is Submitted
Next you can configure a Doc Action email to send when the workflow is completed.
- Go to Settings editing mode in the Guided Designer navigation toolbar.
- Click on the Document Actions tab and select Send Email.
- In the wizard, for the To address select the Email control to generate a template. When the workflow is completed, will send an email to the address that was entered in the Email control in the form.
- Customize the Subject and Message for the email as desired.
- Select the documents that you want to attach to the email. Minimally, select PDF from the 'Send Snapshot' drop down and uncheck the 'Files' checkbox. The . Other options are described below:
- Send the data as a PDF attachment or other image type using the Send Snapshot dropdown. The image type options are PDF, PNG or JPG. Select the blank option from the dropdown to exclude this attachment in the email.
- Attach an XML data document using the Data checkbox. This checkbox is checked by default. Uncheck it to exclude the XML data document in the email.
- Attachments uploaded to your form/workflow are included if the Attachments checkbox is checked. This checkbox is checked by default. Uncheck it to exclude attachments in the submission.
If you have Pixel Perfect mapped PDFs (ex: W-4, I-9 etc…) associated with your forms/workflows, choose the action you want to take from the Send Gen Forms control :
•Check All to send all the Pixel Perfect PDFs. This is the default value.•Check None to send none of the PDFs•Check Select to display a list of all the PDFs associated with your form/workflow. Click the ones you want to be part of the submission. Hold down the Shift key then click the files in the list to select all PDFs or hold the control key and click specific PDFs.
- Click Submit. Save the workflow.
Create the Task List page
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