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Workflow consuming webservice - Editing the address?

My State Machine Workflow (SP 2010) consumes an external Web Service that I have added as a Service Reference in Visual Studio. The WCF Service is currently hosted in my local machine. We have ...
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Value of currency type colum is wrongly displayed in workflow email

In my list, I have a column called "Cost" which is a currency type column. When a user creates a new item in the list, I send a workflow email. In that email, I use [%Current Item:Cost%] to pull up ...
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Calculated Value of “Start Time” in a calendar is not working

I am having a problem with a content type-specific, Reusable workflow. I use it for a calendar. When ever an event is created, I send an email to the approver with Name of the event, start time and ...
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Conditionally Require Approval on List Items

I have a calendar list, and I need to have it so that only items that meet a certain condition require approval. I have tried to use workflow, but when I fire them on the create/change event, the ...
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“Start Time” column is not getting updated in Workflow email

I have an approval reusable workflow for a calendar list. The workflow sends an email to the approver with the start and end time of the event. End time is displayed correctly. But the start time is ...
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OnWorkflowItemChanged fire multiple times

I have been using a State Machine workflow (SharePoint 2010). Workflow design Main State: The Main State does not update the item. The Main State contains a OnWorkflowItemChanged. When the item ...
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how to add list column values to workflow email?

I have a calendar list and I added several text box column values. I am using a customized workflow created in SharePoint Designer 2010 to send an email when there is a new event is added. I want to ...
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Wrong Start Time displayed in Workflow email

I am using a workflow email to alert the users about a new event. I am able to get the name of the event and end time of the event in email successfully using [%Current Item:Name of Event%] and ...
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warm-up for WorkFlow, precompile WorkFlow without runnin it

It's take many time to start worflow first time. How to precompile WorkFlow, without starting it?
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SP2010 Workflow Copy Item Error

I'm having issues with a workflow that copies items from one document library to another after an approval process. The workflow starts automatically when an item is changed. It gets cancelled and I ...
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Reusable workflow not showing anywhere (Sharepoint 2010)

I made a reusable workflow in Sharepoint Designer and checked that it's working in a site. Then I saved it as a template, downloaded it from the site assets, uploaded to a new site. Even after ...
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How to initiate workflow of a list based on user group permission?

I have calendar and I have 5 different groups. I have an approval workflow. Now I want to have 5 different workflows for 5 groups but each workflow has to detect the group of the user and send the ...
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows

Is there a way to set a field with [Today] date and not have it change once it is set. Thanks Kim
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How can i get workflow's activities collection from SPWorkflowTemplate?

I can't find any method or property of SPWorkflowTemplate that returns a activities collection. Also XML representation doesn't contains any references to activities neither. Is there any approach to ...
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SharePoint 2010 Workflow stuck in starting status?

We have a SP 2010 workflow on a Document Library which sends an email notification out to certain users when a property is changed for a document. This workflow was working fine up until 2 weeks ago ...
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A basic “send an email” workflow template?

What I'm looking for is a workflow template which non-SPD, non-VisualStudio, ordinary non-tech humans can pick and use along with a list or library, which does the classic "Can we have this form send ...
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Is it possible to change the value of “Created By” in Comments list of a blog?

I have a SharePoint blog where few people can contribute but everyone can comment. But they want to comment as anonymous. So I created a new column in Comments list called "Post as anonymous" with a ...
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ListData.svc and Task Approval

How can I approve a workflow task using the ListData.svc? I am attempting to just set the value of ApprovalValue to "Approved" but this is not working at all. Any help you can give will probably save ...
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SPWorkflowEventReceiver with the Content Approval Workflow

I have a document library that has 'Content Approval' turned on (List Settings > Versioning Settings > 'Require content approval for submitted items'. I also have a workflow event receiver, utilizing ...
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Changing boolean text in workflow email

I have a list with some boolean (yes/no) columns that are included in an email that is sent by a workflow. The fields appear as true/false when the email is sent, but I would rather see yes/no. I ...
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How to change the From address in Feedback workflow email?

I am having a workflow for a document library. Whenever the workflow starts, it sends an emails with From: Documents. I want to change it to the current user. How is it possible?
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Can I subscribe to all discussion boards with single alert (2010)?

In SharePoint 2010, is there any way to subscribe to all of a site's discussion boards easily? I do not want to have to create alerts for each individual discussion boards as there will be quite a ...
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How do you change the approval status back to Pending if an already approved document has been edited?

I have an approval workflow in a document library. It's manually started by the user because they may not want to start it everytime they edit a document. The workflow is as follows: If for UK ...
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Correct error in Nintex workflow in progress SP2010

I have a complex workflow, created with Nintex, which requires an approval task to be sent to someone's manager, however when the workflow was created there was a mistake and this task is being sent ...
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How would I take a date field and subtract 30 days to show the month prior to the original date

I have records that are modified each month. The site is used to display the previous month's information. However, to make sure that the information is correct, I want to use the date the ...
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Check for empty date in SPD Workflow

Question How can I check for an empty date condition in a SharePoint Designer Workflow? Background I have a list called "Project" with multiple date fields. I have a calendar called "Project ...
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Workflows Always Remain In Progress

I have a custom workflow that was created in VS. This workflow runs like it should about 50% of the time. I am researching/debugging to make it run right 100% of the time and I noticed in Site ...
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Users not assigned for a task in “Collect User Data” action in SP2010 can complete the assignee's task

This has been bugging me for weeks wherein the task assigned to a specific user which was issued by a workflow through the action "Collect User Data from a user" in SPD2010 can just be completed by ...
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Is the workflow attached to the list when saved as a template?

Is the workflow attached to the list when saved as a template also copied? If yes then why is it I cannot see the workflow in SPD when i tried creating a new list based on the list template. What im ...
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How to add values from a multi-valued field from a list using SPD's Update an Item Action

I have a workflow that automatically updates the value of a multi-valued field in an item. This workflow is working as expected. BUT, when that field/column of an item has a value already, the current ...
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Visual Studio workflows - custom task form visible in Word

I am developing the workflows using Visual Studio. What steps are needed to take to have a workflow task edit form opened in Word 2010 like this? I managed to have the yellow bar appear, but clicking ...
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Show item information trough InfoPath form

I have a Workflow made in Sharepoint Designer 2010, and uses the "collection" state, so I can get the approval from manager. The form uses InfoPath by default from Microsoft. I wanna query and show ...
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Append workflow changes to existing content

I have a workflow that updates a lookup column in another list when conditions are met. The problem is that the column allows multiple values, but the workflow is replacing any content that already ...
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Workflow updating a multiple value lookup column

I have a couple of task lists for a project. One list is the list of main projects, the second is a list of tasks under each main project. The main projects has a lookup column that allows multiple ...
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Can I do this with a workflow?

Let's say that I have a Word template in SharePoint and a user. The user will fill in data in the Word template, via SharePoint, and then save it. The Word template should then generate a new ...
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Instances of older workflow version when deploying newer one

The question's about Sharepoint 2010. Let's consider a following scenario: there are instances of a workflow X in progress at the server (for example, waiting for user's interaction). Then, ...
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Workflow configuration by custom config file

I'm currently researching workflow configuration possibilities delivered by Sharepoint 2010 (I am meaning the Visual Studio development side). The kind of configuration I'm meaning is the one done by ...
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SharePoint 2010 Workflow Reversing Date Format

I've created a workflow that stores its start date and time plus 10 minutes to a variable and then repeats the process with 20 and 30 minutes. Once in production this will go up to a few days each. ...
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workflows on team site

I have a team site collection but now the client wants workflows associated with content editing on the main homepage. I can do this for the announcements etc, but I can't apply workflows to the ...
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Removing Workflow Association on Content type programmatically with push to children

I am required to remove Workflow associations on a content type and from all the child content types deriving from this, as well as the list content types, deriving from the derived. ct - A Site ...
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SharePoint 2010 Workflow Deployemnet from DEV to UAT

I have Sharepoint 2010 DEV and UAT sites. I have made some changes in DEV workflow and I want to deploy the changed workflow to UAT site. I have created the workflow template and saved .wsp file to ...
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How do I run a Workflow on a Task List as the Current User instead of Item Creator?

I've created a Workflow in SharePoint Foundation 2010. It creates items in a task list. (Collect Data From User) There is a workflow on the second task list that runs when the task is changed. For ...
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“Publishing Portal” vs a “Publishing Site with Workflows”

I am creating a new site and the business hasn't requested anything specific for publishing with workflow needs, so at the moment the default top level site is a Team Site. What is the best practice ...
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Create custom workflows at item level

I want to users to create a workflow at the item level. That is when they create an item in a list/library they should be able to define a workflow, consisting of tasks and approval process. All this ...
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Schedule workflow or email notification

Just wondering, is there a way to schedule (e.g. 1st day of each Month) a workflow or send email notification for a list, without using powershell or C# code.
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Appoach for SharePoint 2010 file upload workflow

[Crosspost from StackExchange.] I'm working on a project that is basically a file upload "wizard" that basically does the following: Entry form to select document library and enter some basic info. ...
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How to continue workflow from error step?

I have a workflow with error occured status. I fixed the error and deployed the .wsp file. Now I need to continue this workflow from a code activity where error occured. Are there any way to achieve ...
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Use count-related column value as int in a SP Designer-workflow

I have another problem concerning the count-related column-value of SP2010 in a workflow(see also: How to get count related Lookup value programmatically? ). my use-case: I have a column "actual ...
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Add a Three-State Workflow by Code?

I want to add a three-state-workflow to a list. I know how to add this via Designer but - to keep manual works low - I want to achieve the same goal by Code. This is what I need: Add a ...
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Why does my workflow appear to be causing an infinite loop?

I'm JUST starting with workflows, and created my first one. We're running 2010 foundation, and I'm using the basic 3-stage workflow that's included. I'm linking to a Word document in a library, and ...

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