SharePoint 2013 Designer Workflow: Application of Parallel block

In the custom workflow, often encounter such scenes, a certain approval needs to be consulted by more than one person, each of the approvers are independent of each other, that is, each other, simply: "One person through, approval through; one person refused, approval refused". This is like a middle school physics parallel circuit, compared to series circuit, parallel circuit more flexible.

In SharePoint workflow, an activity similar to a parallel circuit is provided, that is, the parallel block (the parallel assembly), in SharePoint Designer 2013, located in the toolbar as follows:

To use this activity is also very simple, then I will be a simple network application to demonstrate, assuming that the following scenarios

211 BC, the Qin Dynasty's technology has been at its zenith, information construction is also a leader in the seven countries, in order to more centralized supervision, the emperor decided to three public nine-Qing all people configure mobile Equipment, always report daily work. Jacky Cheung is now Bostave purchase equipment, an urgent need for the network declaration throne.

Equipment Network Application

Create the corresponding list,task, add the column as shown in the following figure, and specify the details in this article.

Open SharePoint Designer, select the list you want to associate, and create a custom workflow.

First, create and initialize the variable as follows:

Next, insert the parallel block and add a step to assign the required tasks in each step, as shown in the following illustration:

Then, right-click the parallel block (parallel operation) and select Advanced Properties, and the following prompt box pops up: