Workflow in Office Live
We've been heads-down crunching on the next release for Office Live, so I've been pretty bad at blogging for the last few weeks. But the WSS team blogged a couple weeks ago about a new whitepaper regarding Windows Workflow Foundations and it's use in Windows SharePoint Services version 3.
Since Office Live is moving to WSS v3 in our next release, we'll also be making Workflow available. Office SharePoint Designer is the tool of choice for configuring workflow on Office Live. So, once again, if you are thinking of being an Office Live Solution Developer, you should be ramping up on SharePoint Designer and WSS v3. Now make sure to add to the mix the Windows Workflow Foundation functionality in SPD.
Workflow Designer is really rich, and there's a ton you can do with it. You can create tasks, modify list items, send emails, create forms & surveys, and so on and so on. Since the target market for Office Live if small businesses, who rarely have the time or inclination to experiment with technology, Solution Developers should have the experience and know-how to recommend if Workflow is right for the customer's scenarios on Office Live.
Note that we're not going to open up our Office Live servers to custom Actions, because that requires uploading custom code to our server environment. This is consistent with our current plans on custom WSS web parts, which we also won't be supporting... yet. They are both things we want to achieve in future versions.
Anyway, enough for now. Just coming up for a quick breath of air, before I dive back in.
