Një nga modelet e reja që unë të gjeni në përpilimin e zgjidhjeve thekson SharePoint SharePoint Designer punës dhe një marrës ngjarje.

Këtu është një skenar i biznesit për ta vënë atë në kontekstin e:

• Unë ngarkoj një dokument me një lib doc.
• Unë kick off multi-hap workflow krijuar duke përdorur SharePoint Designer.
• Në një moment gjatë këtij procesi, workflow assigns a task to someone (via collect data from user or assign a task).
• We want to use a KPI to track how long that task is awaiting completion. The KPI shows green for tasks that are completed or due more than 3 days from now. It shows yellow if the task is due tomorrow or today. It shows red if the task is past due.
• Here’s the kicker: I want the date that drives that KPI to be holiday-aware.

I can’t calculate a holiday-aware due date in SharePoint Designer workflow very easily. I would have to create a custom action or use a 3rd party tool. Megjithatë, it’s easy enough to calculate such a date in an event receiver. Merge those two together and we get a pattern like this:

• Define a hidden yes/no site column on the document library labeled "DoCalcualteDueDate".
• Initialize it to false.
• At the appropriate time in the workflow (e.g. just before the "collect data" veprim), assign that value to True.
• An ItemUpdate() event receiver looks to see if "DoCalculateDueDate" is true. Since the event receiver runs on every update, "DoCalculateDueDate" is normally false.
• When workflow assigns DoCalculateDueDate to true, the event receiver calculates the holiday-aware due date.
• When the event receiver does this calculation, it sets the DoCalculateDueDate flag to false.

Në fund, SPD workflow is communicated with an event receiver via the DoCalculateDueDate semaphore and we have holiday-aware due dates that are assigned at the exactly correct moment in the workflow’s life. SharePoint Designer controls when the due date is assigned but the event receiver performs the actual calculation and assignment.

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UPDATE: I’ve been researching how to embed a SPD workflow into a site definition. Ky zinxhir forum MSDN ka disa informacione interesante. It’s not conclusive, por tregon rrugën nëpër xhungël.

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 … tekanjoz.

Njerëzit janë shpesh të kërkuar / pyesin / fretting over moving SPD workflows from one place to another. Sot, Kam ndjekur këto hapa dhe bërë këto vëzhgime:

• Kam krijuar një workflow duke përdorur SharePoint Designer në një vend të bashkangjitur në një bibliotekë dokument.
• Biblioteka lidhur Dokumenti strehuar tashmë disa dokumente.
• I shpëtuam faqes si një template.
• Kur kam ruajtur faqen si një template, I shpëtuam përmbajtjen si edhe.
• Kam krijuar një faqe të re në mbledhjen njëjtin vend se duke përdorur template.

Në këtë pikë, I tried to run the workflow. It promptly terminated itself with the log message, "Failed on start".

I expected this. I have low expectations when it comes to moving SPD workflows around.

Kam vazhduar:

• Hapi vend në SharePoint Designer.
• Had a peek at the workflow. It seemed fine.
• I clicked "Finish".
• Unë u zhvillua rrjedhën e punës.

Këtë herë, ai ka punuar mirë.

I’ll add that this workflow used the "collect data from user" veprim i cili është një veprim relativisht komplekse nën kapuç.

I tentatively conclude that the process of "finishing" the workflow caused SPD to properly associate the SPD workflow with the new document library. I also conclude the XOML and other XML artifacts are reasonably "loose". They are not super tightly coupled to the document library.

Çdo të thotë kjo? Assuming it’s a reliable and reproducible process, there’s at least one rough method we can use to move them around. I don’t know if this would work if we crossed site collection boundaries or even more drastically, ferma të tëra të reja (e.g. dev në skenë të stimuloj).

Nëse jeni duke e lexuar këtë dhe të prirë, ju lutem postoj një koment ose email mua your SharePoint Designer migration story. I’ll gladly update this posting with any insights thus offered.

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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 status and reminder dates via SharePoint Designer workflows that then drive KPIs and generally support time-critical business processes.

Use a site content type / column to achieve this effect.

Create a site content type with the status column as shown:

Note the "Status (for Demo)" field at the bottom.

Tjetër, click on the column name to access the column’s properties. Select "Hidden (Will not appear in forms)" in the Column Settings section as shown:

This removes the field from the standard edit/update forms. Megjithatë, it is still available in views, KPIs, the object model and anywhere else you want to use it, including SPD workflow.

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This blog entry is more of an "in the realm of the possible" Hyrja vs. info konkrete.

We have a technical design that calls for us to create a site in a site collection via a manually launched workflow process. Në parim, users enter data into a "new customer" custom list and then when they have finished and validated the data entry process, we need to create a site for that customer.

I’m both a big fan of declarative workflow as well as a weak visual studio workflow programmer, so I wanted to meet the requirement using SharePoint Designer.

I plan to write about this in greater detail (and hopefully present to a user group or two in the coming year), but here’s the overall solution:

• Create a custom action that integrates with SPD.
• The custom action allows SPD to invoke a web service and pass it a string of XML.
• Web service locates the row in the custom list and creates a new site as per the data for that new client using a custom site definition.
• Web service then updates the custom list with some information such as a link to the new site.

We considered other approaches, such as event handlers and visual studio based workflow. The SPD approach gives our end users a little more control over the process. Granted, there’s a lot of C# code in this solution, but it’s wrapped inside a declarative workflow, so we get some of the benefits of declarative workflow while hooking into the site-creation service.

E tëra që na duhet tani është një mjet i thjeshtë për të migruar automatikisht rrjedhat e punës SPD përreth me aq lehtësisht sa mundemi për rrjedhat e punës në studio vizuale dhe me të vërtetë do të gatuajmë me gaz ... Unë e kuptoj që disa njerëz atje janë duke punuar për këtë problem dhe shpresoj që ata të kenë disa suksese të mira së shpejti.

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Unë kam qenë duke luajtur rreth me veprimet doganore për SharePoint Designer për disa kohë (shikoni këtu for some detailed stuff, në qoftë se ju interesojnë).

Në projektin tim aktual, we need to do some fairly heavy lifting and we want to use declarative SPD workflow to manage the associated business process.

Long histori e shkurtër, this is entirely possible. I extended my Codeplex project to invoke a "helper service" and now we can invoke a web service directly from an SPD workflow.

Here’s the signature:

 publik varg Dispatcher(
        Guid WebID, // Passed by the runtime environment
        Guid SiteID, // Passed by the runtime environment
        varg ListID, // Passed by the RTE (don't know why this is a string, not a GUID)
        int ListItemID, // Passed by the RTE.
        varg XmlMessage) // Passed by the user as declared in SPD.

This leverages the fact that we can get at important workflow information, like the site, list ID, etj. This is well documented in several places for those of you interested in creating your own custom actions. The idea is to extract the XML string as provided by the user to dispatch an appropriate procedure. Fun stuff!

Mjerisht, this is obviously a one-way ticket down to "Loosey Goosey" anti-pattern land, por është më mirë sesa të godasësh një mur me tulla

Is it an anti-pattern if you do it even though you know it’s an anti-pattern?

I hope to wrap this inside Codeplex in the near future. If you’re interested in me doing so, give me poke (Email or leave a comment) dhe unë do të jem aq më entuziast për ta bërë atë

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