(Recording) Building document workflow in SharePoint 2007

re: (Recording) Building document workflow in SharePoint 2007

Ty — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:54:40 GMT

I second that thought...this demo was amazingly helpful!

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564171033.aspx

In light of this, I have a stupid question - is the solution provided by Stephen Howard here available either as a free solution template, or as something that could be purchased?

any thoughts on this would be incredibly helpful, as this could serve as a real solid foundation for us. (although we're going to I can forsee, regardless, begin building our site, using this as a training support material)

thanks again!

re: (Recording) Building document workflow in SharePoint 2007

marc — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:24:33 GMT

Hi again... sorry i posted the above to the wrong tab :P ... http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/05/22/document-workflow-how-to-sending-an-email-with-sharepoint-2007-moss.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

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re: (Recording) Building document workflow in SharePoint 2007

marc — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:19:27 GMT

Hi yall. within HP we are trying to implement a new MOSS workflow to facilitate my team's publishing process. never having created workflows or data collection forms before, we charted into new waters cautiously. But, Within two weeks we have a functional concept & I hope our team can start using this soon instead of the 40/50 email per day we each get. SPD ROCKS!!

RESPECT to Stephen Howard !!! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564171033.aspx. With his help I have demoed the concept to our team & we plan to begin testing a new solution soon.

I've hit a small snag. Hoping the gurus can point me in the right direction... Our workflow triggers emails at each step with its <BODY> stored in a variable. Doing the look-up's within the initial step allows us to implement new templates in in 1 place & will capture only the initial values. How can we reuse the email templates with all the updated information ?

TRAIL 1

> look-up <MSG> inside <BODY> on the first step

RESULT = initial <MSG> in all emails

> TRAIL 2

<BODY.1><MSG><BODY.2>

RESULT = Success, sort of…

<DUE DATE><STATUS> look-ups in <BODY> not updated :(

As we update the email templates it would be imposable to replace the HTML in every send email step & re-do the look-ups. I guess im trying to store the look-up inside my template NOT the value each look-up generates so that I can reuse them with all the current info. Can this be done or should be going a diffrent route ?

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SharePoint Document Workflow "How to" - Sending an email with SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

Public Sector Developer Weblog — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:00:32 GMT

As a part of the series that I am blogging on the "How To's" of Document Workflow in SharePoint 2007