multiple steps in workflow

I am very new to Sharepoint world, and learning online and from some books to get as much as possible.

I am making this demo to understand workflow better, but can't progress much.

My situat开发者_如何学Cion is, lets say I request to buy some product, my manager sees it and can reject or approves it. If he approves, my request should go to finance team, and they can proceed it onwards, from finance team to logistics team and I get my product.

Till now, using Approval Workflow, I am able to send request from me till my manager, but I don't how can he now forward it to Finance team ? Do I need to design another workflow for this ? Or should I program Workflow for this purpose ? I also have got an option to see what is the status of the request ? When I first start this request, it is Open. When manager approves it is Approved. Now when he change Open to Approved, I want to trigger workflow from Manager to Finance, how can this be done ?

A little tip that can help me get going with this Workflow would be very useful. Or if you have some suggestions for nice workflow tutorial for beginners, that would be very helpful too.

Thanks.

Do I need to design another workflow for this

Sorry, but yes, absolutely.

You can try first with SharePoint Designer. From your description it sounds feasible. If not, you will end up coding it with visual Studio. In this case, good luck, it can be a bit difficult to construct your first workflow.

You can definitely construct such a workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007, which is a free download from Microsoft's web site. In particular, you can pause the workflow until the approving manager approves or disapproves the request. Then depending on the manager's response, you can have the workflow "send" your request on to the next department.