Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:12 AM
Jim Glass
Calling a .NET Assembly in MSCRM 4.0 Workflows
To help you find what you are looking for, it may help to know that workflow .NET assemblies are called custom workflow activities in the SDK and are called workflow actions in the online help.
Assuming you have already created and registered your workflow assembly, you can use the workflow designer in the Web application to call it. Within your workflow, add a step. The list of possible actions are:
- Create a record
- Update a record
- Assign a record
- Send an e-mail notification
- Start a child workflow ( A type of workflow that runs only when started by another workflow. It is contained within a parent workflow and cannot be run on its own. )
- Change the status of a record
- Stop the current workflow
- Perform a custom workflow action ( An element of workflow logic that specifies a custom operation that should be performed by workflow jobs when conditions defined in the workflow have been met. Custom workflow actions can be developed by using the information in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit, and are not available in Microsoft Dynamics CRM by default. )
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About Jim Glass
As the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UX site manager, I am a passionate advocate for our customers, especially in the areas of CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, small business, and business web sites.
After twenty years in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, I started at Microsoft as a contractor on the newly formed NT DDK team in 92. I then moved to the Trolls, a production team for the Windows SDK and DDK teams. I lead the WBEM team which became the WMI SDK team. My last seven years has been spent as the Visual Studio SDK doc. manager.
In my spare time I can be found tutoring my grandkids, playing the saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), playing summer-league basketball, and moderating the Sax On The Web forum.
