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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 UR…

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…

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 [DateF…

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: <Fie…

Premature Workflow Activation — A Non-medical Solution

UPDATE: See this MSDN discussion, especially the last entry: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx?postid=2631057&siteid=1. It describes a condition that may short circuit this whole thing. In short, it may be as simple as making at le…

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: (well, actually there is further comment after the imag…

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 …

SharePoint Designer — Custom activity to execute user-defined C# functions

UPDATE: This has been released to CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/spdwfextensions UPDATE: See here for latest release notes: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!381.entry UPDATE: See here for my thoughts on commerci…

SPD Workflow custom action – get the <WorkflowInfo> tag right to avoid frustration

Part of the process for creating a custom action for SharePoint Designer involves create a ".actions" file. I’ve found and tried to use a sample template which starts off as: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>…

SharePoint Designer, “Collect Data from User” and using those results.

Use the "Collect Data from User" action to create and assign a task to a user that prompts them for data. Among other things, I’ve used it to prompt a user to approve or reject a request and enter some comments. This action takes the …