SharePoint 2010 Publishing Site - how to enable Publishing WITHOUT going through workflow

Question

I'm working on a 2010 publishing site and I'd like to enable the users to publish a page directly, without going through the workflow. On the Ribbon's "Publish" tab, there is a "Submit" dropdown with "Publish" greyed-out. I'm an administrator on this site, so I can't think what else I could do to enable it.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Unless I'm mistaken, you must do two things:

1. Disable content approval
2. Remove/disable the workflow

To disable content approval, do the following:

1. Navigate to the pages library (via "View All Site Content", or another way)
2. On the library ribbon, choose "Library Settings"
3. Open "Versioning Settings"
4. Set "Content Approval" to no and click OK.

To remove the workflow:

1. Return to the pages library.
2. On the library ribbon, choose "Library Settings"
3. Click "Workflow settings"
4. Click "Remove a workflow"
5. Switch Page Approval to No New Instances (Don't delete it unless you're very sure you'll never go back :) )

I hope this helps.