Publish with new action

[tjholmes]

I am going to try and implement the very Simple Workflow sample.
The very minimal workflow we want to implement will take content items, review them and Publish/Approve them.

I presume there is an action which does the "publish" part … without WCM what exactly does it mean that an item is Published?   We don't want to use WCM, we just want an item to be at least Approved … so I'm guessing that would be the state of the item.

When an Item is Approved, we want to move that content item to a database, or multiple databases.    It seems the best thing to do is then create a custom action.  In our case, we'd like to have that custom action call a web-service which then do the filing to the database(s).

I visited the Wiki and that has a section on creating a Custom Action and a Custom Action UI.  

Is my approach valid, or am I missing something??????

Thanks!
                                  Tom

[davidc]

That's a valid approach.

You should be able to implement your workflow using "simple" or "advanced" workflow - both can call a custom action.

[mdickson]

You could setup an 'Approved' space to hold the approved documents and then create a business rule to trigger when the document is placed into the space. The Business Rule should then call the Custom Action.