request advice on approval tracking website...

Question

User-80275147 posted

 Hi,

I am researching designing and building a website that would be used to obtain and track approvals for various activities.

Basically the website allows a user to fill out a form to request the physical move of an asset (ie.: computer from location A to location B) or fill out a form to dispose an
asset (: i.e: computer disposed). The web-application sends emails to all users who have authorization to approve the move/disposal. 
The approvers would visit the internal website to either approve or reject.
When everyone in the list of approvers have approved or rejected, the original requester is informed they can proceed to move/dispose the asset (the website does not include the actual move or dispose process)

Does anyone have any examples, source code, open source community project for this very modest application, I have very modest design and development experience and requesting a good foundation to get started.

Thank You

Answer 1

User1960438654 posted

Workflow Foundation is designed specifically for these purposes. You can get the described functionality implemented within SharePoint Workflow development feature. Similar case even demonstrated in details by Microsoft within promotion Video at SharePoint site.

Answer 2

User-80275147 posted

Thanks BigTrend,

Yes, we currently use Sharepoint workflows for reviewing and approving documents.

Does workflow foundation also support the following:

reporting functions?

Allow execution of stored procedures on other servers. (eventually this site would update our ERP - asset managment module with updates by running the stored procedures that

would execute those updates) 

Answer 3

User-80275147 posted

Also, I am using this development site as an opportunity to get experience in ASP.NET and architecture.

Thanks

Chris 

Answer 4

User-952121411 posted

Does workflow foundation also support the following:

reporting functions?

 

I agree that based on your description, you are creating a Workflow and Windows Workflow Foundation would be a good place to start.  As far as the previous question, you may want to check out the MSDN forum specific to WF, as they should have the answer:

Windows Workflow Foundation Forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsworkflowfoundation/threads

One note, I have heard that WorkFlow Foundation is many times better with the .NET Framework 4.0 and several enhancements have been made.  This might play into your decision to use the technology.