Nintex general announcement workflow

@Patience totally understand being stuck. Let me see if I understand what you're trying to do.

You have an announcement that gets created and then needs to be made visible to either the entire company or specific departments. 

Ideally, you would have a workflow running on the announcement item when its created. The workflow would read the criteria on the form and determine which department or permissions to set for the item. It's more complicated than that, but that's the general sense. 

@Patience Do you have your SharePoint list and structures setup already? If so, if you can provide a quick list of what list/sites are where I can help you architect this. Also a screenshot can help too.

Hello, I do have an sharepoint list.

titles are :

1. What should we name the Announcement?
2. What's the Announcement?
3. How is the announcement valid for?
4. Select who needs to see this alert
5. Shared with specific individuals
6. Office

Sent you a DM...lets connect.

this is what I have right now, but I need the person to get a request for different departments. should request approval on the top and then this shows? not to show.

@Patience ....If you don't have too many departments then did you thought about using Target Audience in the web part settings?

I do have alot of departments. I did not think about it.

@Patience this seems like your heading in the right direction. Each state should be for a particular approval level.

The first state would be Submitted and would ideally have a run if (based on the status). If status of request is submitted, then go to state 2. Else it would have a flexi task here to go back to the submitter for edits. The outcomes would be the submitted either rejects or completes. If they complete it, then the outcome would be state 2.

State 2 would be the first approver with a flexi task. The outcome would be reject or accept:

If reject then it goes back to state 1.

If accepts it goes to next state if escalated.

State 3 could be HR. 

They get a task if needed, and if they reject it goes back to state 1 for edits

If they accept or approve then it continues

To get the different departments you could create a list with those department email aliases listed and then in the form when the user selects the department they want to post in, you could query the list to figure out who to send the task for approval to. Fairly easy work.