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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:10 PM

Observed Behavior: Moving SPD Workflows Within a Site Collection

I'm giving this post a slightly oddball "Observed Behavior" lead since I'm a little leery of drawing conclusions from it. SPD workflows are ... temperamental. People are often asking / wondering / fretting over moving SPD workflows from Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:36 AM

Quick and Simple: Workflow-only Update Field

It's often useful to store status information in a custom list such as an approval code which should never be directly manipulated by end users. This is a common business scenario. I have been working on a project this year that generates various Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:53 AM

Create Sites (SPWeb) via SharePoint Designer Workflow

This blog entry is more of an "in the real of the possible" entry vs. concrete info. We have a technical design that calls for us to create a site in a site collection via a manually launched workflow process. Basically, users enter data into Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, March 10, 2008 6:43 PM

Integrate SharePoint Designer Workflows with Web Services

I've been playing around with custom actions for SharePoint Designer for some time ( see here for some detailed stuff, if that interests you). In my current project, we need to do some fairly heavy lifting and we want to use declarative SPD workflow Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:28 PM

SPD Workflow "Collect Data From A User": Modify the Generated Task Form

I'm working on a project that uses five different SharePoint Designer work flows to handle some document approvals. SPD provides the "collect data from a user" action so that we can prompt the user for different bits of information, such Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, February 04, 2008 7:07 PM

Solution (sort of): Set Priority on a Task Using SharePoint Designer

I have a business scenario like this: A user uploads a document to a document library. She selects a content type and enters meta data as needed. One of the meta data fields is a flag, "Urgent". This triggers a SharePoint Designer workflow that Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, January 04, 2008 9:26 AM

Quick and Easy: Automatically Open InfoPath Form From SharePoint Designer Email

We often want to embed hyperlinks to InfoPath forms in emails sent from SharePoint Designer workflows. When users receive these emails, they can click on the link from the email and go directly to the InfoPath form. This monster URL construction works Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:11 PM

MOSS Tells Me "Access Denied" to Edit a Workflow Task, But I Really Do Have Access

I've implemented a workflow using SharePoint Designer in a site which is mainly read-only to "NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" (i.e. everyone). There is a forms library for an InfoPath form. There is an associated workflow tasks list as Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:21 PM

SharePoint Designer, Current Item's "Encoded Absolute URL" and HTTPS

We often want to send an email that includes a hyperlink to the item or document that triggered the workflow. We can use current item's "Encoded Absolute URL" for this purpose. However, it always seems to use "http" for the URL Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:10 PM

SharePoint Designer Email Sends ???? in an Email

Forum users occasionally ask: Why does SharePoint Designer put ???? into my email instead of a field value? One reason this happens is because the variable to which you refer is null. This can happen because you are trying to reference a field from the Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:58 PM

Compare / Test for Blank Dates in SharePoint Designer Workflow

Scenario : In a SharePoint Designer workflow, you need to determine if a date field is blank. Problem : SPD does not provide a direct method for comparing dates to anything other than a date. You cannot create a condition like this: "If [ DateField Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:05 PM

SharePoint Designer Workflow Custom Action -- Observation About <FieldBind Designer Type="StringBuilder" ... />

Just a quick observation that there's a very important difference between these two definitions: <FieldBind Field="InParam1" DesignerType="StringBuilder" Id="2" Text="Input parameter #1"/> versus: <FieldBind Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:33 PM

Premature Workflow Activation -- A Non-medical Solution

I have a document library that supports eight content types. I have a SharePoint Designer workflow that wants to calculate and assign a "reminder date" by simply subtracting 30 days from another column, "due date". This should only Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:54 PM

Quick and Simple: Send an email with embedded hyperlink from SharePoint Designer workflow

Once or twice month, someone posts a forum question: "How do I include hyperlinks to URL's that are clickable from a SharePoint Designer email?" Presented without further comment: Technorati Tags: SharePoint , Workflow , SharePoint Designer Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:20 PM

Quick and Simple: Enable SharePoint Designer workflow to update an InfoPath form

Scenario : I have an InfoPath form that front-ends a workflow process implemented using SharePoint Designer. At one point, a manager must approve the form. Since I cannot count on workflow history to meet my auditing requirements , I decide to store my Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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