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Custom Activity Dependency Property Inheritance
I have created a couple of custom workflow activities for SharePoint 2007 and they are working. However, I find that my custom activities share a lot of properties/methods and so I have attempted to ...
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How to make custom workflow activity parameter optional
I'm developing a custom Sharepoint 2010 workflow activity and I need some of it's parameters to be optional. For example, I need a user, using Sharepoint Designer, to be able to specify document path, ...
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How to create a sandboxed workflow action within Microsoft SharePoint Online 365
I have followed the steps on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798499.aspx in order to create a custom sandboxed workflow action, and have deployed this into a site workflow in Microsoft ...
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modify web.config programatically to add a workflow authorized type
I need to add a line in the web.config under authorizedtypes, I want to do it with a wsp solution so that sharepoint takes care of syncrhonizing it with other front end servers.
I just want to put ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Workflow: Create multiple tasks and change them
I want to write a workflow which creates and updates tasks when the workflow item is changed. For example: the workflow-item has a multivalue field with users who should approve the workflow-item:
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Definitive answer to sending emails to SP Group from Workflow
I understand that there are some issues when you use SharePoint group in To/CC field in "Send Email" activity in a workflow designed using SharePoint 2010.
I searched on internet for solution and I ...
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Debugging SharePoint Designer Workflow
I have email workflow in a SharePoint site. I created it using sharepoint designer. It sends an email whenever an item in list is created or modified.
It was working fine few days before.Now,I have ...
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How to deploy a custom SharePoint Workflow Activity
I Created a VS 2010 project with a custom workflow activity and I wish to deploy that to the server. My development machine does not have SharePoint installed, so I decided to use WSP Builder. I ...
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Workflow to sent attachments and mark completed in a List
My client emails the same document to users within the company and also outside the company. I would like to set up a workflow within SharePoint that will do this very same thing and mark a check box ...
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How to use custom task activity inside while in visual studio 2010 sequential workflow?
How to use custom task activity inside while in visual studio 2010 sequential workflow?
I am using custom task activity which is in replicator activity and this is executed inside while condition .
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Delay Activity is not working - Is this fixed in SharePoint 2010?
I have a sequential workflow with some DelayActivities in it which do not work (most of the time). Once the time elapses they don't fire and workflow just waits forever.
Found this after searching ...
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Retrieve associated tasks from custom workflow activity
I created an custom workflow activity specified here: SPWeb.GetListItem returns null in custom workflow activity
Now I need to know the user who last updated the associated workflow task.
Before my ...
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How to debug the error "This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited”?
From time to time, some of my SP2010 site workflows fail with this message:
This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited
I believed I have fixed this but from time to ...
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Custom workflow activity shows up but can't be selected?
I have created a custom workflow activity and successfully deployed it. The issue I am running into is that when I try to select it when creating a workflow using SharePoint designer, nothing ...
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SendEmail Activity in Workflow created with Visual Studio 2010
I am creating a workflow in visual studio. This is what i want it to do....when triggered by creation of a list item i want it to send an email to a permission group with a link in the body to the ...
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Sharepoint Workflows in VS 2010
Currently, we have a business process management tool and we are looking to replace it with SharePoint. The good thing with our current tool is that you define a rigorous workflows and force users to ...
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custom approval workflow, provide approval link via email
I'm putting together a custom approval workflow. One of the requirements is to send an email to approvers were they can click a link to either approve or disapprove the item verses browsing to a task ...
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How do I run Microsoft Open XML code to extract data from a Word document in SharePoint 2010
I have a need to extract arbitrary data from a Word document (docx) that has been uploaded into a SharePoint document library and place it into a column in the document's list record.
As far as data ...
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Can not find web.Config of Empty SharePoint Project to Create an authorized type entry
I'm trying to write a custom workflow action and after searching I find this article and some other that referred to it.
I follow the instructions step by step, but at the last step, author said:
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How to make two activities communicate in my workflow
I'm working on a workflow in which I'm calling a custom activity. After the call of the custom activity I'm trying to get properties which have been changed in the custom activity in my ...
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How to add a fault handler to the entire state machine workflow?
I have a running Site workflow. If the workflow fails for whatever reason, I want to log it in a special way so that I don't have to struggle with the ULS log to figure out what went wrong.
How can I ...
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Output parameters in sharepoint designer are not working
Here is what I have
A custom activity with 2 in parameters and 2 out parameters.
The custom activity code works fine and in debugging mode the parameter is set.
I created some log activities, after ...
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Custom Action in Designer for While Loop
How to implement Custom action for While Loop useful in Designer..
Any ideas will be appreciated!
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SPWeb.GetListItem returns null in custom workflow activity
I created an custom workflow activity with the following code:
namespace Custom.SharePoint
{
public class CustomActivity : Activity
{
#region Fields
public static readonly ...
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Where is “Post-completion Workflow Activities” in sharepoint 2010?
I am having the same problem(or seems to be the same error) as in this article but I not sure where to check for this.
I am using sharepoint 2010 and made a custom workflow through Visual Studios ...
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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 Workflows in background
I'm just curious, I was reading an article here, and in the third paragraph it states
"If you didn’t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time. "
I was just ...
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Workflow Lookup to multiple values
Assume a three lists as below:
User (Name)
Process (Title, Members)
How can we lookup a person where the person is one of the process members?
In short, I don't know how to lookup over an array ...
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Issue with customizing approval process in sharepoint designer
Update--- It appears the that the workflows are completing but it is taking an hour or so to process. Has anyone encounted this before????
I have created on a list a sharepoint designer workflow that ...
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Dates and workflows
I've set up a form for my employees to request vacation. Out the box list and form. Whenever they entered the start date I always get the request with one day delay.
For Example:
Joe request off ...
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Trying to convert a SP2010 document version to a PDF generates SPException: List does not exist
I am trying to modify an existing SP2010 custom workflow action that converts an existing document to PDF using Word Automation. There is a new requirement to only convert the last published version ...
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how to maintain workflow task list data when retracting or removing workflow association
whenever i try to remove workflow association or retract workflow solution (.wsp) all associated task list data also gets deleted.
i want to prevent this behavior as task list data is important for ...
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The pause duration is (very)longer when number items are huge
We have a custom (SPD)workflow(manually starting) on a custom list which has 7000 to 8000 items and growing. "Pause For Duration" action is used to pause the workflow for 5mins and roughly 30 to 50 ...
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Update multiple items, Sharepoint workflow activity
I am new to share point, and I am trying to get my workflow to update every item in a list that match a particular expression. for instance lastname = 'smith'. From my understanding the update item ...
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“On Item Created” SharePoint Designer Workflow doesnt start when creating list items via Code Activity in Visual Studio Workflow
Any help on what authentication settings are required on the application pools for the below simplified scenario:
My List item has two fields. "Title" and "Flag"
I create a new List Item with the ...
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Correct way to fix “This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited”
I have a SharePoint 2010 workflow that creates a task. The task has custom form and custom code executed when the form is submitted.
Inside the code I'm trying to set the Completed Status on the task ...
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Workflow EventReceiver (how modify init (start) form of approval workflow)
My problem is:
I think that I should create event receiver on SP approval workflow. My custom code in that "receiver" should need to do modification to init form (properties) of that workflow. ...
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Replicator in State Machine workflow
I'm working on a custom approval workflow with a few twists.
Given the different states, and reviews, and the need to step back in some scenarios, I'm going with a state machine workflow.
In one of ...
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“Update item” action in SharePoint Designer 2010 on a List
Is my logic correct or am I going crazy.
I have a few conditions before using the Update item action in SPD 2010. Example below:
If A equals 1
and B equals 2
and C equals 3
and Date1 is greater ...
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Start approval process action in sharepoint designer workflow 2010
I'm using SharePoint designer 2010,
I have create workflow.
in the workflow I'm using the "Start Approval Process" action.
I bump into an error when I operate this action:
how I need to configure ...
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Workflows Stopping and detaching themselves from Items : AutoStart Workflow: System.ArgumentException
We have a number of worflows on numerous list's, and they have recently detached them selves from the list , by that i mean that they no longer appear in the workflows area. Also they have stopped and ...
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troubles with a custom SPD activity in sandboxed solution
I want to build a custom activity for SPD 2010 that can extract the full url of a workflow task.
I did not found something like this OOB. Did I missed something ?
I wrote the following code :
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The form cannot be submitted beacuse of an error
I am using SP2010 with infopath 2010.
i've designed a custom approval which contains one approval process. this workflow prompts users to fill in reviewer, CC and comments on the workflow ...
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SharePoint Designer 2010 - “Unable to load workflow actions from the server…”
I have a few custom workflows created by another developer on my dev sharepoint farm. We recently realized that you can apparently not just migrate these things with the rest of the content in a ...
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what book would you recommend for developing workflows in visual studio
What books would you recommend for developing workflows in visual studio 2010? I'm wanting something that doesn't just cover the basics. -thanks,
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ListItem Update from Client Object Model Not Triggering OnWorkflowItemChanged Activity
I am experiencing difficulty creating a file in a document library using the client object model. My custom Visual Studio 2010 workflow is not detecting the updates I am making to the file's list item ...
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Custom visual studio Workflow deployment with Site Definition
In Production Environment :
We have Custom Workflows in a Visual studio Project, each time we create a Site based on Site definition we have to reassign workflow association from visual studio.
How ...
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OnTaskCreated Sharepoint 2010 statemachine workflow not firing (Micorsoft Bug!!)
Workflow Scenario:
State-A create task-A and we get OnTaskCreated event, where onchange of task-A we goto State-B where in it we created Task-B, now we are facing problem with Task-B as its ...
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Sharepoint Task Items Title Field - change URL to point at a custom form
I am currently developing a custom workflow which has it's own approval process when publishing documents to a list.
I have created a new form for use which approves/rejects the file. The approval ...
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block unauthorised users from completing task in sharepoint 2010 custom workflow
This is a sharepoint 2010 custom approval workflow...
I am preventing unauthorised person from approving a task. The while activity checks for a flag (_isStateChanged). The flag is set to true ...
