I'm not completely sure that I understand what you are looking to do.  Any documentation on setting up approvals would be found in the section Managing Approval Workflows in the Admin Guide. You always need to have a workflow, though there are various ways to add approvers to the workflow itself.. You can add various types of approval groups (dynamic, user, property, etc..) to your workflow, or you can add individual users/groups directly to the workflow..  ... View more