Sunday, January 29, 2012

Workflow Enhancements in SharePoint 2010

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420382.aspx#lesson1

  • Visio visualizations
  • Reusable declarative workflows
  • Task processing including escalation and parallel processing
  • Ability to add required fields to lists on the fly – called “Association fields”
  • Visio Visualization is only available for SharePoint Designer Workflows
  • OfficeTask?
  • SPD Save button only saves locally, doesn’t send to SharePoint
  • Visio cannot edit details of the workflow like field names and what not
  • Workflow event receivers can apply to site, root web, web, lists or list template scope – WorkflowStarting, WorkflowStarted, WorkflowCompleted, WorkflowPostponed
  • Sandboxed workflows do not require .actions file, they have actions element inside feature
  • Workflow EDE – can communicate with 3rd party services to raise events that wake up workflow
  • in vs2010 designer green activities have incoming data and blue activities have outgoing data

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