Sitecore Workbox

Question

I am trying to setup some RSS feeds for our editors, so they can see items in certain workflows. We have three workflows; draft, awaiting approval and approved. However, in workbox we can only see awaiting approval and approved.

What would be the reason for this? I have the correct workflow ticked 'standard workflow'.

This is Sitecore 7.

Answer 1

From what I understood, you have a workflow called Standard Workflow and it has 3 states: "Draft", "Awaiting Approval" and "Approved". And in your workbox, you can only see "Awaiting Approval" and "Approved" states.

Workbox only shows states for which user can execute any command. So e.g. if there is Approve command in Awaiting Approval state and your user has appropriate access rights which allows you to execute that command, then you will see Awaiting Approval state in your workbox. If user cannot execute ANY command in particular state, this state is hidden from the workbox.