State 4 Rejected

After you set up State 3 Approved to approve estimates and send an email to the sales rep, set up State 4 Rejected. Create a Set Field Value action to set the Approval Status to Rejected and create a Send Email action to notify the sales rep that the estimate was rejected.

To set up State 4 Rejected:

  1. Make sure the Estimate Approval Routing workflow is open from the step State 3 Approved.

  2. To create the Set Field Value action, do the following:

    1. In the Workflow Diagrammer, click State 4 Rejected.

    2. In the context panel, on the State tab, click New Action.

    3. In the New Action window, click Set Field Value.

    4. Enter the following properties:

      Section

      Property

      Value

      Basic Information

      Trigger On

      Entry

      Parameters

      Field

      Approval Status

      Value

      Static Value

      selected

      Selection

      Rejected

    5. Click Save.

  3. To create the Send Email action, do the following:

    1. In the Workflow Diagrammer, click State 4 Rejected.

    2. In the context panel, on the State tab, click New Action.

    3. In the New Action window, click Send Email.

    4. Enter the following properties:

      Section

      Property

      Value

      Sender

      From Field

      selected

      Record

      Sales Rep

      Field

      Supervisor

      Recipient

      From Field

      selected

      Record

      Current Record

      Field

      Sales Rep

      Content

      Custom

      selected

      Subject

      Your Estimate Has Been Rejected

      Body

      Estimate {number} has been rejected by your supervisor.

      Include View Record Link

      checked

    5. Click Save.

Next Step: Now that the workflow setup is complete, test and then release the workflow. To continue with the estimate approval workflow example, go to Testing the Estimate Approval Routing Workflow.

Related Topics

Building the Estimate Approval Routing Workflow
Creating States for the Estimate Approval Routing Workflow
Creating Transitions for the Estimate Approval Routing Workflow
Preparing an Estimate
Estimate Approval Routing Workflow

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