What is the Parallel Workflow?
If you set the parallel nodes in a workflow, the approvers on the nodes will receive messages simultaneously and handle their own without disturbing each other. When all of them submit the workflow, the workflow will flow to the next node.
What Does It Look Like?
In a vehicle application, both the administration department and the finance department should approve the workflow before it flows to the next node.
How to Set the Parallel Workflow?
Step 1 Designing a Workflow
Take the vehicle application form as an example and click Edit.
Click the form to view the content of the form. Different contents should be handled by different approvers.
Step 2 Setting the Field Permissions
Configure different field permissions to different nodes because the content that the approvers can view and edit is different.
Step 3 Setting the Approvers
Apart from the start and end nodes, you should select approvers for each node.
Step 4 Submitting a Record
1. Submitting the workflow
Submit a record in the workflow form, in which you select approvers.
2. Approving the workflow
Each approver should go to My Tasks, and then approve and submit the workflow.
Preview
If only one approver approves the workflow, click Chart and you will notice that the workflow does not flow to the next node.
If all the approvers submit the workflow, the workflow will flow to the next node.
For details, see Designing.
When to Use the Parallel Workflow?
In a vehicle application, all the approvers should fill in their approval comments respectively before the workflow flows to the next node.
If all the approvers should approve and submit a workflow simultaneously without the need to fill in their comments respectively, use Countersignature Workflow.
More to Know
1. If one approver returns the workflow, the other approvers can still approve and submit the workflow, but it will not flow to the next node.
2. When you re-submit the returned workflow, it will go to the original node automatically. After all approvers approve and submit the workflow, the workflow will flow to the next node.
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