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The approval workflow settings contain
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many additional parameters and settings
for use in quite specific scenarios.
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So we'll work through some of these
and explain the use cases where we can.
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So the first thing we need to do
is to navigate to the approval workflow
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settings page. So I've got that open here.
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You can also get to it
just by typing approval.
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You've got approval workflow settings
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and then we'll just
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slowly work our way down this list.
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So workflow enabled,
we covered that just as a general on off
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switch for the approval workflow.
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Next down, we have per product approval
setting enabled.
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So this enforces the approval workflow
against specific products only.
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And it means you can select
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certain products to require approval
while others can just be freely ordered.
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So how this exactly is configured
and set up will be
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covered in the next tutorial.
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Next down we have a
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redirect to current work page
instead basket.
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So this option changes
the standard checkout
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flow to ignore the full checkout process.
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So with this option enabled,
the customer, creates a variable print,
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submits it for approval,
and then the approval process skips
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the delivery of billing address details.
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If this is not enabled,
then the customer will submit an order
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as normal with the approval
taking place between submission
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and the order
arriving within shared print operations.
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Now, the next three options are all to do
with quick access links.
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So this group of settings controls
the quick access links
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to the approvals page on the frontend.
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So this is what we saw
in the previous tutorial.
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If we're looking at the frontend,
go to the My account dropdown.
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There's an approvals button on there.
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So what these three settings will do.
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So we have show
workflow links in quick access bar.
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so this allows navigational access
to the approval
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or work in progress
depending on the customer role.
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We've got show workflow links in quick
access bar with current count.
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So that identifies the number of jobs
that are awaiting approval or in progress.
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And then we have hide workflow links
in quick access bar when zero.
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So this just hides those access link
when there's no jobs that require approval
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by the logged in user
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we have is automatically rejected.
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So this will force the users
to resubmit their projects
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before the approvals
will receive them in their queue.
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Therefore, the approvals will
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not receive any emails
until the orders have been resubmit it.
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Now we've not quite
got to doing email triggers yet,
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but we need to keep that one in mind.
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Now, scrolling down the page
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a little bit, we have email approval
with new approval items.
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So this option switches on the email
capabilities of the approval workflow.
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Do note that individual email templates
will still need to be activated
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in the email message template screen
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and in that same vein,
we have email approval instantly.
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So this sends the instant approve email
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template or show in a moment
to all of the approvers.
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As soon as a job requires approval.
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So without checking this,
the service is sent only once a day.
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So just to show you where
those are specified.
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So if you've specified in here that you do
want to use the email triggers,
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if I just go to the email message
templates page,
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you'll see there's a whole section
dedicated to the approval workflow.
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All of these templates are inactive
by default.
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You can see I've previously activated one
on my particular storefront
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and these templates can be modified
and activated in
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exactly the same way
as other email templates.
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And of course, there's
other tutorial topics to do with that.
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But just to show you very briefly,
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you go to edit.
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You can modify the contents
of each of those emails,
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gives you some information
on when the triggers are activated
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and you've got the ability to enable
or disable that
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back to the Workflow Settings page,
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we have approval for all approvals.
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So this one allows any approver
to approve anyone's job,
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We've got approve.
will copy to approver basket.
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So approving an order will add the items
within that order
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to the basket of the approver.
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They can then proceed through the normal
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checkout steps.
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We have multiple approval.
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So this option allows you to specify
whether approval is required
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from more than one approver.
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So you'll see if I check that
I got an additional entry appearing here.
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Minimum approvers needed.
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Now we this value zero to mean
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the all approvals must give approval
for that job to go through.
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Alternatively, you can directly specify
a number of required approvals.
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So two or three, for example,
we have email submitter on approval.
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So two or three, for example,
we have email submitter on approval.
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So when asked if this option means
the user requesting approval
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will receive an email notification
once the job has been approved.
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Coming down a little bit.
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We have a group of watermark options.
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So these options control
whether a watermark is present
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and whether access to
a document is restricted.
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So we have watermark text.
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So that's the watermark
that should be populated
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when an approve a downloads
an item for assessment.
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We have a restrict watermark open.
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So that applies opening restrictions
on the watermark item
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and then watermark open passwords.
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That's the password that must be entered
in order to open the watermark document.
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If you've got the restrictions applied
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We have store URL
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that simply the full
URL of your storefront.
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next is workflow
additional product attribute column.
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So product or specification attributes
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can be added as additional columns
to the approval table.
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This viewed by the approver
that we've seen in previous tutorials
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on the front-end
three attributes can be defined
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and it needs the following format.
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So I'm just going to copy and paste.
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So you'll see it needs a format
such as this.
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You can have three of them
maximum it needs the column
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had a name and curly brackets equals
and then the product attribute name.
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So for example,
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it could be something like that.
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We have enable approval comments.
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So this brings up a textbox
where an approver can put a message
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to the user when they're going
through the approval process.
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So if they approve or reject it.
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Scrolling down a little bit further,
we have workflow
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trust levels
which can be enabled or disabled.
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Now you can assign
trust levels to your users.
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The way this works.
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So the maximum number of trust
level is ten.
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So this trouble, this trust
level indicates what percentage of orders
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will automatically be approved
for that particular user.
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Leaving it unchecked
just means that you won't have any trust
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levels applied on a particular storefront.
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You can turn this setting
on, as I've done there, and then assign
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trust levels per customer,
which I'll show in the next step.
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Additionally, underneath that, you have
level up and the level down adjustment.
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So this allows you
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to automatically increase or decrease
the trust level by a certain amount
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for each approved
or rejected item that that customer
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has associated with them.
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So to modify
the trust level on a per user basis
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and first going to navigate
to our customer management
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and the user,
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I want to modify the trust level for
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and then go back to the department
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and customer relationship section.
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You can enable or disable
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the trust level for each particular user
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and you can set the trust level
on this particular screen as well.
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So you can see that as a few notes, it's
kind of related to a percentage.
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So zero means that they never require
any approval.
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Ten means they always require approval.
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And then one, two, nine.
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The higher
the number, the higher the probability.
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So one means that the order has a 90%
chance
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of skipped approval.
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Just a couple more to go through.
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We have use inventory transactions,
so when enabled, all jobs
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that require approval
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will add a transaction to the product
variant of that particular product.
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This ensures
that the stock of the products
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is not immediately reduced
until the job is approved.
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So the customer will be presented
with a calculation
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of the current stock
plus all pending transaction.
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If you have that enabled.