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Workflow best practices: five lessons learned from five real world challenges by Mike Fitzmaurice #espc13

Don’t always use sharepoint workflow! For example in case of: transaction oriented processes application to application service activity aggressive datatransformations work that doesn’t involve Sharepoint at all blocking or modifying activity (start a workflow after a document has been deleted..) Plan to fail! Show the pitfalls to the client so it gets more easy for […]

Push items to a list on another site

There are a lot of (complex) solutions out there to create a master calendar in SharePoint. Sometimes it is really simple. Take a look at this example: We have a master calendar where we store the main appointments for all teams. This calendar has approval on it. When an item is approved we want a […]

Move attachments from item to a network share in #SharePoint Designer

In a previous article I wrote about creating a custom SharePoint Designer workflow action. Once you can do this the sky is the limit. This example use the same technique to create a custom workflow action that moves the attachments from an item to a network share (in my case I had to move them […]

Create a custom #SharePoint Designer Workflow action

I always encourage the power users to build their own applications by using the out-of-the-box tools. The more advanced applications need the assistant of SharePoint Designer to create workflows. In some cases the OOTB workflow actions are to limited. It is possible to create you own SPD workflow actions and let your (power) users use […]

>Workflow is not starting on creation of an item

> Last we had a strange problem with one of my student. He created a workflow in SharePoint Designer with the following startup options: start manually start on create start on change When he started the workflow manually the workflow worked well. When he created (or changed) an item the workflow did not start. I […]

>SharePoint for Power-users presentation

> Today I gave the following presentation for the Howest alumni, MCTKring. The session was hosted in The Studios, a nice location. Check it out! The presentation was about how to create SharePoint applications without writing code. So, using SPD en the OOTB objects. SharePoint for Power Users View more presentations from Gene Vangampelaere. You […]

>Auto archiving documents

> There are a lot of approaches to archive your documents in a document library. We use the following 2 solutions: 1. Archive to another document library In this solution the users wanted a separate document library with their archive documents. They wanted to archive immediately and schedule the archivation. In this case we added […]

Een verlofapplicatie zonder 1 regel code

Een uitdaging voor elke applicatieontwikkelaar: maak een applicatie waar personen een verlofaanvraag kunnen doen. Deze aanvraag moet worden goedgekeurd door hun verlofverantwoordelijke en hun saldo moet worden bijgehouden. Doe dit zonder 1 regel programmeercode te schrijven. Dit is mogelijk met sharepoint in combinatie met sharepoint designer. Wat hebben we hiervoor nodig? Een workflow schema, welk […]

>Automatische reminder workflow

> Een tijdje geleden werd me gevraagd om een soort van uitleendienst op sharepoint te maken. Zoals steeds was het de bedoeling om zoveel mogelijk gebruik te maken van de standaard tools (out-of-the-box). Het was de bedoeling dat je een apparaat kan komen halen aan een balie. De medewerken registreert deze ontlening en 1 dag […]

>Bevestigingsmail via sharepoint designer

> In een eerdere post had ik het over hoe je externe inschrijvingen kan opslaan in een sharepoint lijst (via de sharepoint webservices). Je kan dit nog uitbreiden via sharepoint designer zodat de personen die inschrijven een bevestigingsmail ontvangen na inschrijving. Je kan dit op onderstaande manier instellen: Open Sharepoint Designer (SPD) en open de […]