Select the item or file and click the Workflows button in the Items ribbon or Documents ribbon. The workflows page that opens shows the running workflows as well as the completed ones (see Figure 1).
Click the name of a workflow
or its status to get to the status summary page that is relevant to the
workflow on the current item (see Figure 2).
Note
Figure 2
shows what the workflow information page looks like with Microsoft
Silverlight installed. Without Microsoft Silverlight installed, the page
looks slightly different.
The
workflow’s status summary page shows where the workflow is by
displaying a graphic image of the workflow. It also shows a list of
tasks that have been generated by the workflow and the history of the
workflow progress below it. More complex workflows have more steps, so
viewing the history can be useful when you want to know who did what
during the workflow runtime. For example, if a workflow was canceled,
the history screen shows that information, including who canceled the
workflow. If there were any errors in any of the workflow steps, you can
use this information to see why the workflow was not completed.
Some workflows offer
quicker ways to get to the workflow status summary window. These
workflows add a column to the list or library view that shows the status
in that view. For example, the approval workflow adds an Approval
column to the views of the list or library, showing you the status of
the workflow and enabling you to click the status to get to the status
summary page (see Figure 3).
