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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Redirect on workflow execution
I have a site workflow (on a sub-site) that I am starting from a link on the main site. Works fine, except when the workflow completes it redirects me to sub-site's workflow page.
Is there a way to ...
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Cancel all running workflows on a list
Without access to the server, is there a way to cancel all workflow instances currently running on a given list (without removing the workflow itself)?
I am looking for a solution that works in SP ...
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View workflow feedback and approval comments for an item
Using MOSS 2007, I have some standard out-of-the-box 'approval' and 'collect feedback' workflows running against documents in a document library. For example, when a document needs to be verified, the ...
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Custom task form in a sharepoint workflow using vs2010
How can i use different approval task forms in each approval steps in sharepoint custom workflow using vs2010.
How can i create new custom Approval task form for sharepoint 2010 using vs2010.
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How do I start a workflow from a timer job?
I need to start a particular workflow in a list from a timer job. Is there any sample code for starting the workflow in the timer job's Execute() method?
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Starting a SharePoint Workflow in One Click
I have a list in SharePoint 2007 with a Workflow bound to it. No parameters required to start the workflow. What I'd like to do is create a column in one of the views with either a button or ...
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Managing the deployment of lists/workflows in 2010
If we are creating workflows and lists using the out of the box tools in 2010 on a development machine, is there a preferred way of moving them to test and live once we are happy?
Thanks for any ...
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Why is my new workflow being ignored?
I've updated an existing workflow created in SharePoint Designer. I've removed the old instances from Settings -> List Settings -> Workflow Settings -> Remove a workflow, and recompiled. The OLD ...
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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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Linked Data Source problems
I have some few questions regarding how to make Linked Data Sources work.
Is there a way to have the column headers be able to sort by
ascending or descending (this is not too important but is ...
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Deleting or removing users from a workflow, after if they no longer need to complete the task
A user has created a workflow with multiple participants. One of the participants assigned a task, no longer needs to complete that task. How can we remove the user or task without the workflow status ...
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Sharepoint Designer Workflow Error Occured at start
I have a couple of workflows made in SharePoint designer, that create a looping effect to process items in another list. Basically, one workflow starts when a yes/no field equals yes, the other starts ...
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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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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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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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Users cannot open workflow task (custom form) - Unexpected exception
I have created a custom approval task form for an approval workflow. It works fine for me as a site collection administrator, but for normal users (the users getting the task) there is an error ...
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Workflows do not continue after user completes a task nor do they update task outcome and percentage
I'm testing this with a simple workflow:
Log message "Workflow has started"
Assign a To-do item
Log message "Task is completed"
Here's what we did to make it stop working:
We went and changed ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'xxxxx-xxx' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope
while installing a feature, VS ouput the error:
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'xxxxxxx-xxxx' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope. ...
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Impersonation as Site Owner, workflow is cancelled when setting
Good day.
We have a simple list workflow that uses Impersonation to give Contribute Rights to a user via Replace Contribute Item. The workflow is created by our site Collection Admin.
So when i ran ...
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Set Hyperlink Field Using SPD 2010 Workflow
I've been doing a LOT of research to try to figure out how to do this, but nothing is working. I have a column named "Update Item" that I want to be a link to start a workflow. I have workflow setup ...
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Attach ListItem to TaskItem
I've created a custom approval worfkflow for an listitem. Now I need to see the values of the item in the taskitem. So I think one way would be to attach the ListItem to the TaskItem.
Does anybody ...
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Nintex Workflows in SharePoint 2010 [closed]
I am new to Nintex workflows. Can you please suggest what are the limitations in implementing Nintex workflows? What would be the real things we need to consider when we are implementing them to be ...
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Get Approvers Group - C#
I'm working on a workflow project, where I have to get all the users in the Approvers group. In order to get the approvals group, I run the following code:
SPGroup approvals = ...
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How can you create a dynamic link to a workflow initiation form in a workflow-based e-mail?
Process:
User Creates Item
Admin receives "approve this" e-mail with a dynamic link
Admin selects dynamic link in e-mail
Admin is taken to initiation form of second approval workflow
Admin selects ...
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How can an InfoPath form get the Claims of the user who is logged in to SharePoint?
We have a document library that contains a list of proposals (InfoPath Forms). Users log in through SharePoint using Claims (Forms Auth, via an Extranet) who are from various organizations. The ...
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Workflow: Current Item Url
I have a site set up with a workflow that sends mail with a link to a task. We use alternate access mappings in order to access this site across the company.
My issue is that in my workflow, ...
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How can I remove a single entry from a multiple People and Groups field via workflow?
Using a workflow (and anything else Middle Tier including scripting), can you remove a single name from a multiple-user Person or Groups field?
I'm toying with the idea of a "subscription" model:
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Workflows lost on SharePoint 2010 migration
I have been migrating SharePoint 2007 to a SharePoint 2010 installation.
The upgrade completes successfully but the association between workflows and lists is lost.
In the SharePoint 2007 there are ...
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SP 2007 custom workflow activity not deploying properly
I have a relatively simple workflow activity that just removes all permissions on a list item.
This activity runs great in our test environments which is 2k8 r2 64bit.
However, when we GAC the ...
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Workflow on List Form - The Wrong Approach?
I am running SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. I am relatively new to SP.
What I want to do is create a form for my Publishing Site for authenticated users to fill out.
I want the form to behave like any ...
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Workflow create task with content type - Custom Forms in InfoPath
I know it's possible to customize the forms of workflow tasks but is it possible to have them customized also for "CreateTaskWithContentType" component, not just for "CreateTask"?
I had a try of ...
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Missing OOTB Enterprise Workflow Templates
I am using a SharePoint 2010 Enterpise server, with the Norwegian language pack installed. The issue that I am having is that some of the standard OOTB workflows (within the Workflow feature) are ...
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Available Approvers Based on List Item Column Value
Is it possible (without custom forms) to create an approval workflow that filters the list of available approvers based on some value in a list item ?
To be a bit more clear.. if the list item had a ...
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Canceling Workflow (Task Process) from Infopath
I have a workflow (in SP2010) Task Process that I need to be able to cancel. I had a parallel action in the "When the Task Process Is Running" that checked for Item deletion or a field change.
Run ...
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Workflow: Email with link to EditForm of lookup field
I have a list called "Alerts" that has a lookup field to "MyEvents". In Sharepoint designer I need to make a workflow that is sending email with a hyperlink pointing directly to EditForm of MyEvents, ...
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How to remove autogenerated columns created by designer worflow?
I create reusable worflow in SharePoint designer, Everytime I modify the workflow and attach it to the library a new column for the workflow is being created. They are not even shown in library ...
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Approval Workflow to update User Profiles Details
I am working on a Leave Application System using Sharepoint.
I have added the total leave each user have in their user profile.
The user will apply leave and once it is approved, the leave taken ...
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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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SharePoint Approval workflows being cancelled [closed]
In our 2007 MOSS environment we have started seeing an intermittent problem with approval workflows being cancelled. This seems to be random and only started happening a few weeks ago. I cannot see ...
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Can I control the name of forms when using a custom task process in SharePoint Designer?
I use SPD 2010 to create a complex workflow. I use many custom task process to interact with the different users at different stages of the workflow.
Each time I add a new custom task process in my ...
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Publishing Infopath/Workflow form updates
I've got a simple update to a workflow association/initiation form that isn't deploying correctly. I am setting a tooltip on a validation but when I deploy my updated solution package the change isn't ...
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Form Action Workflow “canceled by System Account”
I've created a button, around which I've wrapped a form action that calls a custom form action. Problem is, it keeps erroring off with:
User ID Date Occurred Event Type Duration ...
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How can I get the current list/library Name in SharePoint Designer workflow
How can I get the current list/library Name in SharePoint Designer workflow? I have searched all the lookup options, but no luck.
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Prevent a user from changing a value in a workfow or event receiver
I have a workflow on an item and I do certain things when an status column changes.
I need to prevent a user from changing the status to "Witnessed" if they don't fill in the "witnessed person" ...
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SharePoint Development Sever Yes\No
My department head is insistent on having a Development and Production Server for our SharePoint sites. After speaking with some other professionals and working with the technology for several months, ...
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Hiding Information in a SharePoint List
If several employees add their data to a SharePoint List (Change of Address) how do I hide the employees' address from the other employees and is this possible? I have been working in the SharePoint ...
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Is it possible to add something to a list without trigging the ItemAdded event
I have a situation where I don't want to trigger the ItemAdded event if an item is added to a list via a workflow. Is it possible not to trigger this event?
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call one workflow from another workflow
I'm using SharePoint designer 2010,
I have created 2 workflow (Workflow A and Workflow B),
and now I want to call/start workflow B from workflow a.
how can I do it?
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Create multiple tasks from one single task
I am using SP2010.
In Tasks, I create a task and assigned it to a specific group which has 5 people. What I want is that the task has to be individually assigned to each person i.e. 5 new tasks of ...
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How can i get policies read and acknowledged in SharePoint
We have a policies and procedures document library and I would like to send out some of these documents yearly to group of employees (users in AD). Is there anyway I can do this with SharePoint? ...
