I'm new in SP world and still on my first steps,
but im facing a problem when working on workflows with the page
approval,,
this is my problem,
when i Create a Sharepoint custom list and enable content approval
on the list. I added the Approval workflow to the list, and specify
that you want the workflow to automatically start whenever the list
item changes. Every time that list item changes, I want the
approver to get an e-mail and be able to look at it and hit the
approve/reject button on it - a very reasonable thing in my
opinion. But it doesn't work! It results in an endless loop.


I guess that this is the reason..
When someone makes a change to the list item, the approval status
gets set to Pending and the workflow automatically kicks off.
Good. Now the approver gets the e-mail, views the list item and
approves it. Good. That sets the approval status to Approved. But
then guess what? Because the status got set to Approved by the
Approve/Reject page, Sharepoint sees that as a "change" to the item
and then sets the approval status back to
Pending!!!! You can never get it set to Approved because it gets in
an endless loop of Pending-Approved-Pending ..