How are you configuring workflow?

[SarahG]

Hi Anaplanners - I am in search of process improvements to workflow. Who's willing to share their success with establishing workflow for approvals that encompass some derivative of:

• required date field
• required approve OR reject field
• email notification submission 
• submission button

Key considerations are: user friendliness for approvers who aren't in the plattform regularly, intuitive steps/instructions, etc.

Thank you!!! 

[s.jansenidw]

Hi Sarah,

You can build a workflow that consists out of a combination of line items, a list, and a time dimension. By using Dynamic Cell Access (DCA) you can ensure that once the date field and a submission button is ticked you lock the input data.
After approval/rejection you can keep the data locked or re-open it again.
The email notification button in the NUX can be configured only in the NUX directly, you have to pre-specify the recipients per button.

Once Anaplan delivers the new additional workflow functionality you can assign tasks to specific roles/users. This would probably still need DCA on the back-ground so the effort that you're taking now isn't lost completely due to new update.