Can someone point me to an example of where a transaction workflow has to be approved by a finance person, and then it also has to be approved by an operations person. It can't move to the operations approval unless it is approved by finance first. Do i need to have a custom field to hold the "interim" approval flag ie pending ops approval so we know where it is in the process? All suggestions are appreciated

The above approach is how we did it. We have two custom fields to hold “statuses” that a sales order has to pass through (two different approval teams) before the built-in NetSuite “Approve” button appears. The WF checks to see if the current user is assigned as one of the required “approvers” for the current step in the approval process, if so, shows the appropriate button which that person can click to transition to the next state in the WF.

Is this one workflow or does it have to be two?

I did it with one.