CN116402472A

CN116402472A - Workflow approval method and device

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Publication number: CN116402472A
Application number: CN202310457439.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李志顺
Original assignee: China Construction Bank Corp
Current assignee: China Construction Bank Corp
Priority date: 2023-04-24
Filing date: 2023-04-24
Publication date: 2023-07-07

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a workflow approval method and a device thereof, and relates to the field of information processing technology and workflow engine related, wherein the method comprises: acquiring a first form filled in by an approval applicant; splitting the first form into a plurality of forms to be examined according to a splitting mode of the row; obtaining target forms to be examined of a plurality of flow nodes in the workflow from the forms to be examined; and sending the target forms to be examined and approved of the flow nodes to examination and approval terminals corresponding to the flow nodes. The method and the device improve the form granularity circulation in a line approval mode, solve the limitation that when the form is circulated in the workflow, the form needs to be put forward or put backward, support each detail item in the form to be circulated independently, optimize the efficiency of the business flow circulation and reduce the waiting time of the item to be approved at a non-approval node; in addition, each node still carries out auditing approval in a form mode during approval, and the conventional approval mode is kept unchanged.

Description

Workflow approval method and device

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the field of information processing technology and workflow engine related, in particular to a workflow approval method and a workflow approval device.

Background

The workflow is used as a core application of financial affairs, transactions and the like in daily transactions and relates to auditing and approval workflows, the technical capability of how each flow node is organized together with the front and back nodes is provided, the flow automatic transfer among the nodes is completed through functions of submission, rejection, consultation, synergetic and the like, and a workflow engine completes the quick construction of the approval flows through standardized approval function configuration and quickly realizes the application of the workflows.

In the related art, a workflow engine usually performs flow node circulation of auditing and approval in a form of whole form. However, in the workflow engine design, the form can only be circulated among the flow nodes one by one, and part of matters in the form cannot be circulated to the next flow node in advance without approval of the current flow node, so that the flow circulation efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The disclosure provides a workflow approval method, a workflow approval device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, so as to at least solve the problems of low business process flow efficiency and the like in the related technology. The technical scheme of the present disclosure is as follows:

according to a first aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a workflow approval method, including:

acquiring a first form filled in by an approval applicant;

splitting the first form into a plurality of forms to be examined according to a splitting mode of the rows;

acquiring target forms to be examined and approved of a plurality of flow nodes in the workflow from the plurality of forms to be examined and approved;

and sending the target forms to be examined and approved of the flow nodes to examination and approval terminals corresponding to the flow nodes.

According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a workflow approval apparatus, including:

the first acquisition module is used for acquiring a first form filled in by the applicant after approval;

the splitting module is used for splitting the first form into a plurality of forms to be examined and approved according to a splitting mode of the row;

the second acquisition module is used for acquiring target forms to be examined of each of a plurality of flow nodes in the workflow from the plurality of forms to be examined;

and the sending module is used for sending the target forms to be approved of the flow nodes to the approval terminals corresponding to the flow nodes.

According to a third aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device, comprising: a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; wherein the memory stores computer-executable instructions; the processor executes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to implement the method as described in the first aspect.

According to a fourth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored therein computer executable instructions for implementing the method according to the foregoing first aspect when executed by a processor.

According to a fifth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer program product comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of the first aspect described above.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure at least brings the following beneficial effects:

the method comprises the steps of splitting each row in a first form into each form, determining target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node from the split forms, and then sending the target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node to examination and approval terminals corresponding to each flow node. Therefore, the embodiment of the disclosure improves the form granularity circulation in a line approval mode, can solve the limitation that the form needs to be moved forward or moved backward when the form is used for circulation in the workflow, and supports each detail item in the form to be independently circulated, so that the efficiency of the business flow circulation can be optimized, and the waiting time of the item to be approved in a non-approval node can be reduced. In addition, each flow node still carries out auditing and approval in a form mode during approval, and the conventional approval mode is kept unchanged. In addition, the method supports the summary audit of detail matters among different forms, can meet the requirement of rejecting operation of a few matters in business, and does not need to reject the whole form.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure and do not constitute an undue limitation on the disclosure.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a workflow approval method according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating another workflow approval method according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a workflow approval apparatus, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

In order to enable those skilled in the art to better understand the technical solutions of the present disclosure, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present disclosure and in the foregoing figures are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate such that the embodiments of the disclosure described herein may be capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. The implementations described in the following exemplary examples are not representative of all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with some aspects of the present disclosure as detailed in the accompanying claims.

With the continuous development of society, the Internet is widely applied to daily life, study and work of people, and various daily transactions of people can be processed and presented through the Internet. The method is realized by establishing an approval workflow aiming at application scenes such as collaborative office, article receiving, multi-person decision making, financial approval and the like in various management processes in enterprises and public institutions and government institutions; for example, staff reimbursement requires submission of a financial reimbursement application workflow.

The business process applicant (also called an approval applicant) submits business approval online to trigger a corresponding business approval workflow, and each process node in the business approval workflow completes corresponding business approval. In the related art, a workflow engine usually performs flow node circulation of examination and approval in a form-whole mode, that is, a form filled in and submitted by a business flow applicant can only circulate among flow nodes one by one, and part of matters in the form cannot flow to a next flow node in advance without approval of a current flow node, so that the flow circulation efficiency is low, and the examination and approval work efficiency is low.

Therefore, the embodiment of the disclosure provides a workflow approval method and a workflow approval device, which improve the form granularity circulation in a form approval mode, solve the limitation that the form needs to be moved forward or backward when the form is used for circulation in the workflow, support each detail item in the form to be independently circulated, optimize the efficiency of the business flow circulation and reduce the waiting time of the item to be approved at a non-approval node. Specifically, a workflow approval method and apparatus thereof according to an embodiment of the present disclosure are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a workflow approval method, as shown in FIG. 1, that may be used in an electronic device, which may be a server, for example, with a workflow engine deployed thereon, as an example, and may include, but is not limited to, the following steps.

In step 101, a first form is obtained after the applicant has been approved for filling in.

Optionally, the embodiment of the disclosure may provide a client, where the client has a function of submitting the business approval. In this way, the approving applicant can submit the business approval through the client. In one implementation, the applicant may select the approval item to be applied for on the client and fill in the corresponding content on the corresponding form filling interface of the approval item. When the approval applicant completes the filling of the contents of the form and submits, the form submission can be triggered, namely, submitting the first form filled by the approval applicant to the electronic equipment, so that the electronic equipment obtains the first form filled by the approval applicant.

In step 102, the first form is split into a plurality of pending forms according to a split manner of the row.

Alternatively, in embodiments of the present disclosure, the first form may be split into multiple pending forms according to details.

In one implementation, each detail line item in the first form is traversed circularly, and line splitting is carried out on the first form according to each detail line item to obtain all lines in the first form; and respectively packaging each of all the rows into a form, and determining a plurality of forms obtained after packaging into a plurality of forms to be examined.

That is, the details of the first form may be traversed circularly, and each line of the first form may be repackaged into a new form, so that the new form may be submitted for approval, so that a plurality of forms to be approved may be obtained.

In step 103, a target form to be approved by each of the plurality of flow nodes in the workflow is obtained from the plurality of forms to be approved.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, since the examination contents of the approvers of the flow nodes are different, the present disclosure divides each line in the first form into individual forms, and determines the target form to be examined belonging to the current flow node from the forms obtained by dividing the first form into the individual forms, so that it is unnecessary for the approvers of the flow nodes to spend a lot of time searching for the respective examination contents.

In step 104, the target forms to be approved of the plurality of process nodes are sent to approval terminals corresponding to the plurality of process nodes. When the approval terminal receives the corresponding target form, the target form can be displayed, so that an approver associated with the approval terminal can conveniently approve the content of the target form.

In one implementation manner, the target form to be examined and approved by each of the plurality of process nodes may be sent to the examination and approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes in a manner of task to be handled. That is, according to the present disclosure, each line in the first form is split into each form, a target form to be examined and approved by each flow node is determined from the forms obtained by splitting, and then the target form to be examined and approved by each flow node is sent to an examination terminal corresponding to each flow node in a task waiting manner, so that each detail item in the form is supported to be circulated independently. Therefore, the target forms are sent to the approval terminals of the corresponding flow nodes in a to-be-handled mode, and an approver can determine all forms which need to be approved by the approver through the to-be-handled mode.

Through implementation of the embodiment of the disclosure, each row in the first form can be split into each form, the target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node are determined from the split forms, and then the target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node are sent to the examination and approval terminals corresponding to each flow node. Therefore, the embodiment of the disclosure improves the form granularity circulation in a line approval mode, can solve the limitation that the form needs to be moved forward or moved backward when the form is used for circulation in the workflow, and supports each detail item in the form to be independently circulated, so that the efficiency of the business flow circulation can be optimized, and the waiting time of the item to be approved in a non-approval node can be reduced. In addition, each flow node still carries out auditing and approval in a form mode during approval, and the conventional approval mode is kept unchanged.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of another workflow approval method, shown in FIG. 2, that may be used in an electronic device, which may be a server, for example, with a workflow engine deployed thereon, as one embodiment, and may include, but is not limited to, the following steps.

In step 201, a first form is obtained after the applicant has been approved for filling in.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the implementation manner of step 201 may be implemented by any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure, which is not limited herein, and is not described herein again.

In step 202, the first form is split into a plurality of pending forms according to a split manner of the row.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the implementation manner of step 202 may be implemented by any one of the embodiments of the present disclosure, which is not limited herein, and is not described herein again.

In step 203, a category of approval items associated with the first form is determined.

Optionally, when the applicant is approved by submitting the business, the required approval items, such as financial approval items, employee off-job approval items, or article-receiving approval items, are generally selected, and each approval item has a corresponding category, so that when the applicant is approved by submitting the form after completing the content filling of the form, the category of the approval item selected by the applicant is submitted along with the form. In this way, the electronic device can determine, from the content submitted by the client, the category of the approval item associated with the first form submitted by the client. As one example, the category of approval items may include, but is not limited to, any of the following: receiving articles; multiple people make decisions; financial approval; employee away, etc.

In step 204, corresponding workflow configuration information is determined based on the category of the approval item.

Alternatively, different workflow configuration information may be configured in advance for different kinds of approval matters. Wherein the workflow configuration information may include, but is not limited to, at least one of: flow node information, which indicates which flow nodes the current approval item belongs to for approval; the list item information to be examined and approved by the flow node indicates which list item or list items need to be examined and approved by the current flow node, and the like.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, after the category of the approval item associated with the first form, the workflow configuration information corresponding to the category may be determined from the workflow configuration information configured in advance for the approval items of different categories. For example, taking an approval item of a category of financial approval as an example, workflow configuration information corresponding to the financial approval may be determined.

In step 205, a plurality of flow nodes for processing the approval item are determined from the workflow according to the workflow configuration information.

In one possible implementation manner, taking the example that the workflow configuration information includes flow node information and details about to-be-examined and approved of the flow node, when determining the workflow configuration information corresponding to the category of the examined and approved item, a plurality of flow nodes needing to process the examined and approved item may be determined from the workflow according to the flow node information in the workflow configuration information.

In step 206, pending details of each of the plurality of flow nodes are determined based on the workflow configuration information.

In one possible implementation manner, taking the example that the workflow configuration information includes flow node information and details to be approved of the flow nodes as the example, when determining the workflow configuration information corresponding to the category of the approved matters, the details to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes may be determined according to the workflow configuration information.

In step 207, a target form to be approved by each of the plurality of process nodes is determined according to the details to be approved by each of the plurality of process nodes and the details associated with each of the plurality of forms to be approved.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the details to be approved of each of the plurality of process nodes are matched with the details associated with each of the plurality of to-be-approved forms one by one, and the target forms to be approved of each of the plurality of process nodes are determined from the plurality of to-be-approved forms according to the matching result. For example, taking a plurality of process nodes including node 1, node 2 and node 3, where details of each of node 1, node 2 and node 3 are sequentially item a, item b and item c as an example, determining details of each of the plurality of to-be-inspected forms, determining a to-be-inspected form corresponding to item a as a target form to be inspected by node 1, determining a to-be-inspected form corresponding to item b as a target form to be inspected by node 2, and determining a to-be-inspected form corresponding to item c as a target form to be inspected by node 3.

In step 208, the target forms to be approved by the plurality of process nodes are sent to approval terminals corresponding to the plurality of process nodes.

In one implementation manner, the target form to be examined and approved by each of the plurality of process nodes may be sent to the examination and approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes in a manner of task to be handled. That is, according to the present disclosure, each line in the first form is split into each form, a target form to be examined and approved by each flow node is determined from the forms obtained by splitting, and then the target form to be examined and approved by each flow node is sent to an examination terminal corresponding to each flow node in a task waiting manner, so that each detail item in the form is supported to be circulated independently.

Alternatively, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the target form may be derived from multiple pending forms split by different first forms. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the details associated with the target form may be determined according to the details associated with each of the plurality of pending forms; summarizing the target forms belonging to the same first form according to detail items associated with the target forms; and sending the summarized target form to an approval terminal of the corresponding flow node.

That is, since each detail line in the first form is split into one form in the present disclosure, in the subsequent flow nodes, the to-be-handled information of each form is theoretically received, but in terms of users, the to-be-handled information of each form is checked by one whole form, so that the forms corresponding to the detail lines of the flow nodes are required to be identified and summarized, that is, when the forms corresponding to the detail lines are identified, the current flow nodes are included, and whether the forms corresponding to the detail lines belong to the same first form is required to be identified. Therefore, the target forms belonging to the current flow node and derived from the same first form can be summarized and displayed to the current flow result in a whole form mode so as to meet the whole form auditing requirement of an approver. In addition, the method can also be extended to meet the scene needs on more businesses, and the functions of summarizing and auditing multiple departments are added to the forms submitted by multiple departments.

Through implementation of the embodiment of the disclosure, each row in the first form can be split into each form, the target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node are determined from the split forms, and then the target forms to be examined and approved of each flow node are sent to the examination and approval terminals corresponding to each flow node. Therefore, the embodiment of the disclosure improves the form granularity circulation in a line approval mode, can solve the limitation that the form needs to be moved forward or moved backward when the form is used for circulation in the workflow, and supports each detail item in the form to be independently circulated, so that the efficiency of the business flow circulation can be optimized, and the waiting time of the item to be approved in a non-approval node can be reduced. In addition, each flow node still carries out auditing and approval in a form mode during approval, and the conventional approval mode is kept unchanged. The embodiment of the disclosure also supports the summary audit of the detail items among different forms, and the detail items in the forms are split into new forms and submitted to the corresponding flow nodes for audit, so that the operation of rejecting a few items in business can be satisfied without rejecting the whole form.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a workflow approval apparatus, according to an example embodiment. Referring to fig. 3, the apparatus includes: a first acquisition module 301, a splitting module 302, a second acquisition module 303 and a sending module 304.

The first obtaining module 301 is configured to obtain a first form after the applicant is approved to fill in.

The splitting module 302 is configured to split the first form into a plurality of forms to be examined according to a row splitting manner. In one implementation, the splitting module 302 is specifically configured to: circularly traversing each detail line item in the first form, and splitting the lines of the first form according to each detail line item to obtain all lines in the first form; and respectively packaging each of all the rows into a form, and determining a plurality of forms obtained after packaging into a plurality of forms to be examined.

The second obtaining module 303 is configured to obtain, from the multiple pending forms, a target form to be validated by each of the multiple flow nodes in the workflow. In one implementation, the second obtaining module 303 is specifically configured to: determining a category of approval items associated with the first form; determining corresponding workflow configuration information according to the category of the approval items; determining a plurality of flow nodes for processing approval matters from the workflow according to workflow configuration information; determining the detail items to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes according to the workflow configuration information; and determining the target form to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes according to the detail items to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes and the detail items associated with each of the plurality of forms to be approved.

The sending module 304 is configured to send the target form to be approved by each of the plurality of process nodes to an approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes. In one implementation manner, the sending module 304 may send the target forms to be examined and approved by the plurality of process nodes to examination and approval terminals corresponding to the plurality of process nodes in a manner of task to be handled.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the target form is derived from a plurality of pending forms split by different first forms. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, an implementation manner in which the sending module 304 sends, to an approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes, a target form to be approved by each of the plurality of process nodes may be as follows: determining detail items associated with the target form according to the detail items associated with each of the multiple to-be-examined forms; summarizing the target forms belonging to the same first form according to detail items associated with the target forms; and sending the summarized target form to an approval terminal of the corresponding flow node.

The specific manner in which the various modules perform the operations in the apparatus of the above embodiments have been described in detail in connection with the embodiments of the method, and will not be described in detail herein.

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the present disclosure also provides an electronic device and a readable storage medium.

As shown in fig. 4, a block diagram of an electronic device is provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Electronic devices are intended to represent various forms of digital computers, such as laptops, desktops, workstations, personal digital assistants, servers, blade servers, mainframes, and other appropriate computers. The electronic device may also represent various forms of mobile devices, such as personal digital processing, cellular telephones, smartphones, wearable devices, and other similar computing devices. The components shown herein, their connections and relationships, and their functions, are meant to be exemplary only, and are not meant to limit implementations of the disclosure described and/or claimed herein.

As shown in fig. 4, the electronic device includes: one or more processors 401, memory 402, and interfaces for connecting the components, including a high-speed interface and a low-speed interface. The various components are interconnected using different buses and may be mounted on a common motherboard or in other manners as desired. The processor may process instructions executing within the electronic device, including instructions stored in or on memory to display graphical information of the GUI on an external input/output device, such as a display device coupled to the interface. In other embodiments, multiple processors and/or multiple buses may be used, if desired, along with multiple memories and multiple memories. Also, multiple electronic devices may be connected, each providing a portion of the necessary operations (e.g., as a server array, a set of blade servers, or a multiprocessor system). One processor 401 is illustrated in fig. 4.

Memory 402 is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium provided by the present disclosure. Wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform the workflow approval method provided by the present disclosure. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of the present disclosure stores computer instructions for causing a computer to perform the workflow approval method provided by the present disclosure.

The memory 402 is used as a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and may be used to store non-transitory software programs, non-transitory computer executable programs, and modules, such as program instructions/modules (e.g., the first acquisition module 301, the splitting module 302, the second acquisition module 303, and the sending module 304 shown in fig. 3) corresponding to the workflow approval method in the embodiments of the disclosure. The processor 401 executes various functional applications of the server and data processing, i.e., implements the workflow approval method in the above-described method embodiment, by running non-transitory software programs, instructions, and modules stored in the memory 402.

Memory 402 may include a storage program area that may store an operating system, at least one application program required for functionality, and a storage data area; the storage data area may store data created from the use of the electronic device by workflow approval, and the like. In addition, memory 402 may include high-speed random access memory, and may also include non-transitory memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-transitory solid-state storage device. In some embodiments, memory 402 may optionally include memory remotely located with respect to processor 401, which may be connected to the electronic device of the workflow approval via a network. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

The electronic device of the method of workflow approval may further include: an input device 403 and an output device 404. The processor 401, memory 402, input device 403, and output device 404 may be connected by a bus or otherwise, for example in fig. 4.

The input device 403 may receive entered numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic device for workflow approval, such as a touch screen, a keypad, a mouse, a track pad, a touch pad, a pointer stick, one or more mouse buttons, a track ball, a joystick, etc. input devices. The output device 404 may include a display apparatus, auxiliary lighting devices (e.g., LEDs), and haptic feedback devices (e.g., vibration motors), among others. The display device may include, but is not limited to, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display, and a plasma display. In some implementations, the display device may be a touch screen.

Various implementations of the systems and techniques described here can be realized in digital electronic circuitry, integrated circuitry, application specific ASIC (application specific integrated circuit), computer hardware, firmware, software, and/or combinations thereof. These various embodiments may include: implemented in one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs may be executed and/or interpreted on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor, which may be a special purpose or general-purpose programmable processor, that may receive data and instructions from, and transmit data and instructions to, a storage system, at least one input device, and at least one output device.

These computing programs (also referred to as programs, software applications, or code) include machine instructions for a programmable processor, and may be implemented in a high-level procedural and/or object-oriented programming language, and/or in assembly/machine language. As used herein, the terms "machine-readable medium" and "computer-readable medium" refer to any computer program product, apparatus, and/or device (e.g., magnetic discs, optical disks, memory, programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)) used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor, including a machine-readable medium that receives machine instructions as a machine-readable signal. The term "machine-readable signal" refers to any signal used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor.

To provide for interaction with a user, the systems and techniques described here can be implemented on a computer having: a display device (e.g., a CRT (cathode ray tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor) for displaying information to a user; and a keyboard and pointing device (e.g., a mouse or trackball) by which a user can provide input to the computer. Other kinds of devices may also be used to provide for interaction with a user; for example, feedback provided to the user may be any form of sensory feedback (e.g., visual feedback, auditory feedback, or tactile feedback); and input from the user may be received in any form, including acoustic input, speech input, or tactile input.

The systems and techniques described here can be implemented in a computing system that includes a background component (e.g., as a data server), or that includes a middleware component (e.g., an application server), or that includes a front-end component (e.g., a user computer having a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with an implementation of the systems and techniques described here), or any combination of such background, middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: local Area Networks (LANs), wide Area Networks (WANs), the internet, and blockchain networks.

The computer system may include a client and a server. The client and server are typically remote from each other and typically interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server arises by virtue of computer programs running on the respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other. The server can be a cloud server, also called a cloud computing server or a cloud host, and is a host product in a cloud computing service system, so that the defects of high management difficulty and weak service expansibility in the traditional physical hosts and VPS service ("Virtual Private Server" or simply "VPS") are overcome. The server may also be a server of a distributed system or a server that incorporates a blockchain.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any adaptations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be effected without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A workflow approval method, comprising:

acquiring a first form filled in by an approval applicant;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein splitting the first form into a plurality of pending forms in a row splitting manner comprises:

circularly traversing each detail line item in the first form, and splitting the lines of the first form according to each detail line item to obtain all lines in the first form;

and respectively packaging each row of all the rows into a form, and determining a plurality of forms obtained after packaging as the plurality of forms to be examined.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining, from the plurality of pending forms, a target form to be validated by each of the plurality of flow nodes in the workflow comprises:

determining a category of approval items associated with the first form;

determining corresponding workflow configuration information according to the category of the approval items;

determining a plurality of flow nodes needing to process the approval matters from the workflow according to the workflow configuration information;

determining the to-be-approved detail items of each of the plurality of flow nodes according to the workflow configuration information;

and determining the target form to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes according to the detail items to be approved of each of the plurality of flow nodes and the detail items associated with each of the plurality of forms to be approved.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the target form is derived from a plurality of pending forms split by different first forms; the sending the target form to be approved of each of the plurality of process nodes to the approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes includes:

determining detail items associated with the target form according to the detail items associated with each of the multiple to-be-examined forms;

summarizing the target forms belonging to the same first form according to the detail items associated with the target forms;

and sending the summarized target form to an approval terminal of the corresponding flow node.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending the target form to be approved by each of the plurality of process nodes to the approval terminal corresponding to each of the plurality of process nodes includes:

and sending the target forms to be examined and approved of the flow nodes to examination and approval terminals corresponding to the flow nodes in a task to be handled mode.

6. A workflow approval apparatus, comprising:

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the splitting module is specifically configured to:

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the second acquisition module is specifically configured to:

determining a category of approval items associated with the first form;

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the target form is derived from a plurality of to-be-approved forms split by different first forms; the sending module is specifically configured to:

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transmitting module is specifically configured to:

11. An electronic device, comprising: a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; wherein,,

the memory stores computer-executable instructions;

the processor executes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.

12. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein computer executable instructions which when executed by a processor are adapted to carry out the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.