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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 var…

Create Sites (SPWeb) via SharePoint Designer Workflow

This blog entry is more of an "in the realm 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 in…

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 workfl…

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, suc…

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 tha…

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

UPDATE: Madjur Ahuja points out this link from a newsgroup discussion: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms772417.aspx. It’s pretty definitive. === We often want to embed hyperlinks to InfoPath forms in emails sent from SharePoint Design…

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…

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…