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Click on workflow settings. Select the Workflow association type as “Document”. Click on Add a workflow. Select the approval workflow then provide the name for the workflow, “Approval Status”.
That’s the first step of creating SharePoint 2013 approval workflow. Select “Workflows” on the left navigation pane. Then click on “List workflow” and select your list. Here you should add a new SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow to the list, enter its name and add a description.
How to approve task in SharePoint Online 2013?
First click on task and then edit it. After that you will have approval window. Unfortunately, the Content Approval Process is no longer exist in SharePoint Designer 2013 with SharePoint 2013 workflow platform,
The Task Actions are accessed in the Action drop-down menu of the SharePoint Designer 2013 ribbon, as shown in the figure. A business process often consists of tasks that must be performed by people. A workflow orchestrates the steps of a process. A workflow uses Task Actions to assign tasks to people.
Sharepoint 2013 has some simple workflow actions that should make this pretty easy to pull off. If outcome=approved go to approved steps, else do other stuff. I’ve been working on something quite similar with an enterprise wiki.
How does a specified approver work in SharePoint?
Since there are so many people using the library the user himself assigns the appropriate approver for the document. This assigned approver is then shown in a column in the same library. When the approver is assigned, only he gets an e-mail which asks him to approve the document, so the others with the approval permission will not be notified.