Firstly, apologies if this has been answered somewhere, but I have spent 2 days hunting through Google, including results here, and I haven't found an answer yet, so I thought someone here may be able to help.
I am using an on-prem SharePoint 2013 farm. I only want to use the 2013 Workflow Manager (no 2010 workflows, please).
My library has major and minor versions, requires check in/out, and also document approval before it's made available to everyone.
I have been trying to create a workflow (currently in SharePoint Designer) which can ultimately approve a document.
Does anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?
I can't update the Approval Status field. I can't find an action that will allow the document to be approved (unless I want to use a 2010 workflow, which I don't). I considered using a custom field to set the status to approved, and wondered if I could use a timer job to properly approve these records overnight or something, but even that hit a snag when I did the necessary check out / check in around the update of the field, and the document ended up checked in as a minor version instead of a major, which meant it couldn't be approved anyway. I also can't find a way to tell it to check in as a major version.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Is document approval even possible with a SharePoint 2013 workflow (and force check in/out)?
Is the timer job a good idea? Could I write a custom workflow action in Visual Studio to accomplish the "check in as major version" idea?
Any help would be appreciated.
