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SharePoint workflow refers to the automation of a business process by step by step execution of steps. In many cases the workflow instances have indeterminate delays and overall duration due to the necessity to interact with human users. This differentiates workflow from other means of automation such as Event Receivers. There are two types of workflows - Sequential Workflows - State Machine Workflow

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What causes "The e-mail message cannot be sent." error when using a retention policy to star...

The field that the SPD workflow was supposed to pull from had been modified, and I had to go re-associate the field in the workflow with that step. … I'm not sure how you have designed your workflow, but if it feeds off of the permissions of the person initiating it, this could be the problem, or if it is supposed to notify the person who initiates …
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Outgoing email and document publishing workflow

Are you synchronizing profiles with Active Directory or some other source? If so, then the email property will be controlled by those sources. If you are not importing profiles or that property is n …
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Project Approval using InfoPath form and workflows

I have found it best to include the approval process as a section within the form. You can create views that make the form read only once it has been submitted for approval and send an email to the ap …
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Why has sending emails from workflows stopped?

It appears that your code may send credentials while the alerts and OOTB workflow emails are not sent using any particular credentials. …
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SharePoint 2010 - Electronic form data into SharePoint

Have you considered email enabled libraries? Since 90% of your users do not have access, you should consider that to get the information or form into SharePoint. If you use InfoPath, you could possibl …
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update choice-radio button column, within workflow

I'm not sure what kind of workflow you are using, whether it is SPD or VS or something else, but you could try clearing the value of the field instead of setting it to anything. …
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Workflow logic for multiple-approval process

The second review, does it take place within the form or is it a task in a task list? If it is within the form, then wait for a field to be "rejected". If you are doing it as a repeating field so tha …
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Trigger workflow daily

Theoretically (and actually) it is possible to create scheduled jobs that will perform these tasks for you and to set them up and run them from the SharePoint server. However, this is not generally a …
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Delete workflow task when item is deleted?

I would have this set up as a separate "delete" workflow that would remove the associated tasks from the tasks list and then delete the item. … Instead of using the default delete button, you would have a workflow that actually performs the delete action and can ensure that all associated artifacts are removed prior to deletion. …
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Help with workflow on SP2010 designer

For WF2, the pausing of a workflow for a time period relies on the workflow timer job that runs in the farm. …
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InfoPath form approval custom workflow

Another thing you can do is look on codeplex, there is a project out there that will extend the SPD2007 workflow capabilities to look up data within the form itself if you haven't promoted the columns. …
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SPD Workflows upgrade from 2007 to 2010 fix

The upgrade should allow the current SPD workflows to function normally, however, any URLs that are not relative links will be the items that will not function properly with an upgrade that changes t …
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Unable to see read only fields of a content type from a workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010

Chris is correct, you cannot write to these columns as the form moves through your workflow as these columns are simply displaying the data from within the XML file. …
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Restoring Infopath Workflow metadata

Let the workflow run, but the actual statuses should be based on fields in the workflow, then your status will always be restored when you restore the item. … Then the approval is actually made on the form while the workflow waits for a field to change. Once the field changes, then the workflow moves to the next appropriate step. …
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sharepoint designer 2007 failed to load workflow

If all else fails, open the workflow in SPD in the old environment and copy and paste the files into a new workflow in the new environment attached to the new list. Good luck! …
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