SharePoint workflow refers to the automation of a business process by step by step execution of steps. There are two types of workflows - Sequential Workflows - State Machine Workflow
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Deploying custom SharePoint workflow to production server
I have created a Visual Studio sequential workflow on my test server and also created a custom activity for it. How do I deploy these to the production server (or another server? I created a WSP, ...
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How to alter SP2013 workflow task from an ASP task form?
I have created SPD workflow with a custom ASP form. My form opens when clicking on a task link and I can show information about the task. Now I want to alter the task after pressing a button, but ...
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How to make it possible to set the due date in a approval/feedback workflow to current date?
I created two workflows, one based on the approval workflow and another based on the feedback workflow via SharePoint Designer 2010.
When you start one of the workflows you can set a due date, but at ...
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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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How to mark a group task as complete if any member of the group completes it?
I created a group in SharePoint of three people who can publish documents. Then I created a workflow that assigns a task to that group when a document needs to be published.
If any of those three ...
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Approval Workflow- task update was not accepted
In MOSS 2007, I have an OTB Approval workflow on one of the list which is manually triggred for each item. Now there is a situation where the aprroval is assigned for one of the item to a user who has ...
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Outlook 2010 “Open this Task” error when working with SharePoint 2010 workflows
Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 integrates with SharePoint 2010 workflow notifications by providing an option to "Open this Task" on the ribbon. So, if a workflow gets assigned to you, you get an email ...
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Sharepoint 3 state workflow sending notification twice, on Add new Item event?
I have share point list which receives the values from asp.net page (using Web services) on the list I have created an 3 state Workflow (By choosing List -> Workflow setting -> configure to run on ...
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Approval/Feedback workflow: how to change the task status with a custom button on InfoPath Form?
I created two workflows, one based on the approval workflow and another based on the feedback workflow via SharePoint Designer 2010.
For both workflows I'm trying to find a solution to add a custom ...
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Set SPBuiltInFieldId.WorkflowInstanceID value
I start worklfow programmaticaly on SPListItem (custom ContentType).
When i try to save all fields but "WorkflowInstanceID", its ok. But,
item[SPBuiltInFieldId.WorkflowInstanceID] = ...
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Workflow Task Process - email notifications
Is there any way to display the consolidated comments for task process in descending order for an approval workflow ?
The comments are included in task notification emails. i could not find any ...
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Deploy List Workflow in Production Environment
I created list workflow using SharePoint Designer.
How to deploy my list workflow in Production environment?
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Workflow doesn't create tasks anymore
I created a custom workflow via copy&modify of the OOB feedback workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010. When the workflow is started there are usually tasks created for every participant of the ...
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Workflow Visualization working but empty
Sorry to bother you again, but those workflow topics really drive me nuts...
I've got the problem that my Visio workflow visualization shows up in the workflow status page, but it's nearly empty like ...
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow creates ASPX form instead of InfoPath form
I tried re-installing my workflows on my server after a new deployment had run, but now I encounter the following behaviour:
Instead of the previous InfoPath initiation form it creates an aspx form ...
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Creating Word document with tables from template
I found this blogpost about automatically creating Word documents from a list item using workflows in SP2010.
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InofPath Workflow; GroupID, Error Message: Group cannot be found
I have created an InfoPath form workflow in designer. It is a simple workflow which uses the "Collect data from user" task. It requires that the user supply a choice: "Approve" or "Reject", and select ...
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Cannot edit Initiation Form of Designer Workflows with InfoPath
I've got a reusable SP Designer workflow in SharePoint 2010, and I'm trying to edit the Initiation Form for it. I can open the workflow within SP Designer, click the form, and it opens in InfoPath. I ...
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Randomly: Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user
I have a rather curious issue with some workflow tasks.
My (state machine) workflow creates a handful of tasks while running. Users interact with the tasks to move the workflow between its states. ...
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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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Empty date field goes to 1/1/1900 when updating target list with workflow
Say, I have a SourceList with date fields like these DateReceived, DateEntered. If these field or fields are null then in workflow updates the target list item with 1/1/1900 dates respectively.
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Approval Workflow OOTB SharePoint 2010
I am still learning how workflows work and this is the first time I have used OOTB so needless to say, I coded much more than I needed to. With that being said, today we tested the approval which goes ...
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Can you import a visio sharepoint workflow template directly into Visual studio without using Designer?
We are trying to determine if it is possible to import a workflow directly from Visio to Visual Studio without using SharePoint Designer. A comment here: ...
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How to determine business days in sharepoint workflow
One step of my workflow needs to calculate how many BUSINESS days i have between two dates.
The problem is that my customer registers the holidays in a sharepoint list.
So i will need to query this ...
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Custom workflow activity for SP 2007 appears in Designer's action picker but won't add
This is SharePoint 2007. I created a custom workflow activity in Visual Studio 2008 (using this and a few other blogs as a reference). I deployed it properly, I think. I can go into SharePoint ...
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How do i find the Field Name of a workflow column
I am trying to add a couple workflow columns to the ImmediateNotificationExcludedFields in my alert email template. The problem is I am not sure what the Field Name value is for these automatically ...
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SharePoint Workflow Best Practices [closed]
Any Points on the SharePoint Workflow Best Practices for both SPD and VS.
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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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Prevent workflow field column from being added
I've got a few lines of code which programmatically add a workflow to a list content type. This works ok, but it also automatically adds a column to the default view of this list. I don't want that to ...
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manageable Sequential Workflow code in visual studio
We are developing a new visual studio 2010 sequential workflow having many steps inside.
c# code exceeds 5K lines now.
Can anybody suggest any technique that we can use to make the workflow ...
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How can i insert a header and footer to word documents in sharepoint
We have some word docs in Sharepoint and would like to add images to the header and text to the footer.
So maybe users can select what they want to insert the text and images.
Not sure if its possible ...
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Sharepoint Workflows and Managed Term Sets
Platform: Sharepoint 2010 with Sharepoint Designer 2010
Are there any explanations out there on how to create a workflow with an email template that is sent to certain people based on a taxonomy term ...
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Unable to get custom workflow condition to work
I am trying to create a custom workflow condition following the official msdn documentation found here. I think I did everything correct (obviously not) and the following error is displayed within ...
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Custom Workflow Activity for merging users in field + assignedTo value from task (problems & questions)
First of all, a little explanation what this is about:
I'm currently trying to write a custom workflow activity for use in SharePoint Designer 2010.
I've got a column in my list - let's call it ...
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Visual Studio 2012 deploying workflow
I uploaded the wsp file of a visual studio 2012 workflow to galleries->solutions in central admin. The feature appears in manage features on central admin but does not show up in site settings on ...
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Anonymous access problem on multi-lingual website
I created a new publishing site with anonymous access enabled and it was working fine.
Then I made it multi lingual by making English and Arabic versions. You know by going to "Language Settings" and ...
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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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Workflow For Updating To A List(Sharepoint)
I have created a workflow to add the values from excel sheet in SP list...I want to create a condition such like whenever the excel is modified its values should get reflected in the list.. I Am Using ...
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SP 2013 Workflow Needs to Calculate Due Date using Payment Terms and Date Received
I have a due date in one list that needs to be populated by a workflow to calculate the date received plus the payment terms. So, if the date received is 4/3/2013 and the terms are 30 then the ...
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Is it possible to intigrate between building a WikiSite & using workflow
After carefully reading the available templates in SharePoint 2013 i have settled on using the enterprise wiki template to implement a full knowledge library for my company.
But as our wiki might ...
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Removing previous versions and copying document to another library
I have to do a workflow where I need to remove previous draft versions of the document and then copy it to another library.
I added to actions like this:
But when I check the document in the CSI ...
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Set Person field type in a SharePoint Designer Workflow best practices
In SP Designer, when using the "Set Field in Current Item" action, if the field you are setting is a Person type, there are several choices to "return" the data as. For example, if setting your Person ...
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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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shrepoint 2007 workflow retrieve group of values
I have two lists that i would like to use to create a workflow that sends email whenever an item is created.
Here the details:
List Officers has two columns, City and Officer and there clearly are ...
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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 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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Automatic Content Sanitization in Sharepoint 2010/2013
Is it possible to perform basic document sanitization tasks in Sharepoint 2010 or 2013?
I would like to be able to trigger the sanitization task based on a set of user defined rule. Examples of ...
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Deleted Workflows Still Sending Emails
All! I have an issue that neither I nor the contractors that I have working for me have been able to figure out, and I'm hoping you all might be able to help me.
I have several users that are getting ...
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Send or Copy file by workflow which is editing in SharePoint
If in SharePoint is some way to send or copy file which is editing? In Windows even file is editing I can copy and paste copy of file but when I try to do it in SharePoint by workflow I get error and ...
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Error while form opening if it is created from SharePoint Designer
I got stuck! :P
My goal: New form in source library ====> New form in target library [both web-browser enabled, following Infopath templates]
Using "create list item" action within a workflow ...
