Category Archives: SharePoint Workflow

Tutorial kbir u Walk-through jużaw InfoPath u Workflow biex isolvu problema Skedar

Dawn il-ġranet, Jien perpetually playing catch-up mal-qari blog tiegħi u I biss sab din il-kariga: http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/02/give-blood-to-your-workflow.html

Dan kif solidu u dettaljat a Designer SharePoint tutorja workflow (flimkien ma 'aktar!) that you’ll see anywhere on the interwebs. I’d check it out, even if you’re a scarred SPD veteran.

Huwa SharePoint tutorja kbir kemm għall InfoPath u workflow.

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Kontroll Behavior Workflow mal Listi Custom (Għal darb'oħra)

Aktar kmieni dan ix-xahar, I jitqiegħdu flimkien artikolu oriġinarjament maħsuba għall Mark Miller www.endusersharepont.com. Madankollu, I minflok użati bħal Dustin Hoffman użat salib fl-aħħar ta 'l- Il-Gradwati fend off tiegħi (tal-biża! friendly!) editur TechTarget.

Dan huwa pass ieħor SharePoint Designer workflow artikolu bl-istess mod bħal sforz aktar reċenti tiegħi hawn: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1226 ("Use Control Lists to Create Flexible Workflow Solutions").

Huwa jibda bħal dan:

Qatt xtaq inti tista 'temporanjament jiskonnettja Designer SharePoint workflow? Inti tista 'tixtieq li tagħmel dan sabiex' tapprova massa numru kbir ta 'dokumenti mingħajr tpaċija għexieren - jew possibilment mijiet - ta' flussi tax-xogħol bla bżonn.

Mod wieħed biex dan jintlaħaq huwa li aċċess għall-workflow użu Share-Punt Designer u jneħħiha. Biex tagħmel dan, ikollok bzonn li jiftħu SharePoint Designer, aċċess għall-workflow, tbiddilx il-proprjetajiet tiegħu u jerġa 'isalvawh. Il-problema li metodu hija li huwa lottijiet messy u li x'aktarx li ring ftit ta 'qniepen allarm fil-aktar kumpaniji.

B'mod ġenerali, fiddling madwar ma workflows Designer SharePoint mhix prattika tajba f'ambjent produzzjoni, lanqas ma hija parti minn proċess ikkontrollat ​​tajjeb.

The article then walks you through a solution to this problem that uses a custom list to turn the WF on or off as needs dictate. Aqra l-ħaġa sħiħa hawn (http://wp.bitpipe.com/resource/org_1127860336_240/SharePoint_vol5_v6% 201_16.pdf).

Dan l-artikolu kienet ispirata minn mistoqsija magħmula fuq il-forums hawn: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/. Għalkemm I jqattgħu ħafna iktar ħin fuq il-forums MSDN, I jirrakkomanda bil-qawwa li għandek Peek fil-forum EUSP kif ukoll, particularly for end user oriented questions. It’s yet another source of good information and advice.

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Uża Control Lists li toħloq soluzzjonijiet Workflow flessibbli

Last week, Mark Miller posted my latest SharePoint Designer workflow article for end users on his site (http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1226).

Huwa jibda bħal dan:

We technical types use a lot of jargon and acronyms in our daily routine such as “OOP” (object oriented programming), “CT” (Tipi Kontenut), “SPD” (SharePoint Designer), “RTFM” (please read the manual), eċċ. This article concerns itself with a particular bugaboo called “hard coding:” What it is, why it’s bad and how to avoid it in SharePoint designer workflow solutions.

I describe how we can use custom lists to store workflow control and configuration data. Using this approach, we can avoid hard coding values such as approvers’ email addresses, approval dollar limits, eċċ.

Iċċekkjaha.

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A Web Proxy Server Ppruvaw Stop Me Mill Installazzjoni Windows Workflow Fondazzjoni, Imma I Defeated Hija

I’m working at a client site and needed to install windows workflow foundation so that I could so some SharePoint Designer work. (Ma kontx naf sal-lum li SPD jinstalla multa imma verament jeħtieġ mill-inqas. NET 2.0 u Windows Workflow Fondazzjoni biex ikunu verament użabbli; I dejjem jassumi dawn kienu installati flimkien mal SPD, imma I kienet żbaljata).

The client has a proxy server. No problem, I have credentials to get outside to the public Internets. I go to the usual place to download WWF (SPD jgħin tawni rabta). That download is really a bootstrap of sorts. It runs and figures out what else it needs to download. That second download process failed. It either does not try at all, or is somehow prevented from asking for proxy server credentials. It was a pretty hard crash, tagħti me-messaġġ:

Microsoft. Qafas NET 3.0 has encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete successfully.

I ppruvaw li reboot u jintefqu 10 seconds trying to figure out if I could get it to ask me for proxy server credentials. I gave up and went here instead: .Qafas NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Pakkett sħiħ).

I jitniżżel dak il-pakkett, installat u dan iż-żmien, il-problemi.

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SPD Workflow: Uri Isem Sħiħ Minflok Dominju username

Fil dak li jidher bħala blog inawgurali tiegħu kollokament, chiqnlips Għamara tkun delved fil-Gian dimenzja hija kolonna kkalkulata u soluzzjoni għal Designer SharePoint attività email workflow problema komuni: How to display a person’s real name in an email instead of "domain\username."

I ma ttestjati myself, but it looks promising. Iċċekkjaha.

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Portabbiltà SharePoint Designer Workflow mil-Lista għall-ieħor

Mark Miller fuq medda ta ' www.endusersharepoint.com stazzjonati artiklu aħħar tiegħi fuq SharePoint Designer workflow hawn (http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1037).

I describe the basic approach for moving a workflow you create in one list to another list. The other list can be in the same site, ġbir istess sit jew razzett kompletament differenti (e.g. mill-iżvilupp għall-produzzjoni).

This is a complicated subject so I only covered a very basic scenario. Ġimgħa d-dieħla, I’ll write up a more useful real world example.

Check out u jaqsmu xi kummenti hemmhekk.

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Għaliex ma nistax nara Faċilment Port SharePoint Designer Workflow Solutions Mill Lista wieħed għall-ieħor?

Mark Miller tkun stazzjonati aħħar tiegħi End User orjentati SharePoint Designer Workflow artikolu fuq is-sit tiegħu ta 'hawn: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1008

I jipprova li tipprovdi tweġiba straight-quddiem għall-mistoqsija, "Why can’t I easily port a SharePoint designer workflow from development to test?" In the process, I wkoll tagħti xi ħarsa lejn dak SPD huwa attwalment tagħmel wara l-kwinti meta nużawha biex joħolqu soluzzjoni workflow.

Ġimgħa d-dieħla, I jiddeskrivu Utent Tmiem mod faċli biex port SPD workflow minn server għall-ieħor, jew għall-inqas bħala End User friendly soluzzjoni kif jista 'jkun minħabba l-istat tas-sett għodda.

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SharePoint Designer Workflow ma tistax aċċess “Remote” jew “Barranin” Listi

Hawn mistoqsija oħra komuni SharePoint workflow Disinjatur:

"Can I access (taqra / tikteb) SharePoint jelenka permezz workflows li ma jirrisjedux fl-istess sit bħal-lista nnifisha?"

It-tweġiba hija sempliċi: Mhux.

Kif f'ħafna modi, madankollu, irridu jikkwalifikaw li (li hija ħaġa tajba f'dan il-każ). The platform lets us create extensions to the produce in many ways, inkluż azzjoni custom (tara proġett tiegħi CodePlex ftit hawn għal eżempju). A custom action lets us do basically anything we want from SharePoint designer workflow. I’m a big fan of this, fil-fatt, peress li jagħtina l-aħjar taż-żewġ dinjiet — a dikjarattiva-utent aħħari disinjatur ħbiberija ma 'l-fond totali tal-qafas. NET fuq ponot tas-swaba tagħna.

Sfortunatament, jekk inti qed tuża SPD, hemm ċans tajjeb li qed tagħmel li minħabba li inti ma tistax tuża studio viżwali (minħabba l-fatt li l viżwali studio teħtieġ sfond iżviluppatur fil-fond). I don’t have any good answer to that problem except that you should prevail upon one of your technical co-workers to create the kind of custom action you need. Alternatively, jaħdmu mal-ġestjoni li jimpjegaw jew kuntratt li tip ta 'riżorsa.

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SharePoint Designer Workflow u Attachments Email — A konsumazzjoni devoutly li xtaq

Sfortunatament, it is not to be. We cannot send an email with attachments from a SharePoint Designer workflow using out of the box features. This wish comes up with increasing regularity on the MSDN forums.

Madankollu, l- SharePoint pjattaforma, kif ma 'ħafna affarijiet, does offer us a path forward. Nistgħu joħolqu azzjonijiet tad-dwana which we then incorporate into our workflows. Once installed, azzjoni custom jistenna u jħoss bħal kull azzjoni oħra (e.g. Iġbor Data, Log Messaġġ, eċċ).

Ħolqien ta 'azzjoni tad-dwana huwa big muntanji li jitilgħu, madankollu, for End Users. This codeplex project provides this functionality: http://www.codeplex.com/SPDActivities. Pulling that down and installing it is also beyond the skills of typical End Users. Madankollu, huwa pjuttost sempliċi għal admin SharePoint biex tagħmel dan, hekk jekk issib ruħek li jeħtieġu biex jiżviluppaw workflow ma din il-kapaċità, taħdem ma admin SharePoint tiegħek biex tikseb dan isir.

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SharePoint Designer Workflow, Event Receivers and “Update List Item” versus “Set Field in Current Item”

We have a set of SharePoint designer workflows that "communicate" with an event receiver on the list via changes to site column values. Per eżempju, if a site column "SetDuedate" is set to true by the workflow, the event receiver detects that change, calculates a due date and assigns that date to another site column, "Due Date." We split things up like this because the event receiver can calculate a due date using complex business rules (taking weekends and company holidays into account) while SPD really can not.

In one specific instance, we ran into a problem with this trick. Debugging all this is pretty difficult, but we came to the definite conclusion that in one case (inqas), the event receiver was not running all the time. In one step of the workflow, we would change the value of a site column and the event receiver didn’t appear to run. Madankollu, it was running consistently in a different step of the workflow.

After reviewing it, I noticed that the happy workflow step used the "Update List Item" while the other step used "Set Field in Current Item." Update List Item was updating the "current item." I’m not sure why we picked one over the other since they would seem to be doing the same thing.

Allura … the Update List Item action did cause the event to fire. Min-naħa l-oħra, the Set Field in Current Item action did not.

I used Update List Item in both places and viola! It worked. [[ Total aside, I played the violin for on a daily basis for almost 15 snin ]]

From this, I tentatively believe that the "Set Field" action does not cause event receivers to fire, at least some of the time.

This issue bedeviled us for weeks.

This is one of those "observed behavior" posts. I observed this happen once in a specific environment and I’m making some guesses as to why things happened as they did. If you have any insight into this one, please share in the comments.

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