Adding Activities to SPD

SharePoint Designerのワークフローへのカスタムアクティビティ登録に関する情報

SharePoint Developer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:18:54 GMT

SharePoint Designer Team Blog に、Visual Studio 2005 で開発したワークフローのカスタムアクティビティを、SharePoint Designerのワークフローに登録する方法が公開されました。

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Mark — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:29:07 GMT

FWIW, there's an extremely small typo in the article. When you say "find the templates/1033/workflow folder", "templates" should be "TEMPLATE". At least on my box. :-)

Other than that, this article is the best.

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Gabe — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:15:50 GMT

Ahh good catch, thanks!

Tip: Clearing the SPD workflow assembly cache

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:06:02 GMT

Hi folks, it's Gabe Hall again with a quick tip you can use when developing workflow activities on WSS

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Robin — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:25:47 GMT

Maybe you can reference the post of Todd Baginski (and me ofcourse ;)) on how-to simply add a custom workflow activity to SPD?

Todd's post : http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/03/08/HOW-TO_3A00_-Create-a-custom-Windows-Workflow-Activity-and-make-it-available-in-SharePoint-Designer.aspx

My posts : http://glorix.blogspot.com/2007/03/spd-workflow-activity-copying-listitem.html and http://glorix.blogspot.com/2007/03/spd-workflow-activity-creating-document.html

Creating and Installing Workflow Activities for SPD

Steve Caravajal's Ramblings — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:05:44 GMT

Three good references to get you started: HOW TO: Create a custom Windows Workflow Activity and make

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Stefan — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:58:47 GMT

Great! This helps a lot...

Could you please post a list of all available Designertypes and a little "howto" of how to build a custom designertype?

Bye

Stefan

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FreemanRU — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:24:46 GMT

Q: In .xoml file of workflow I've found some intresting line:

<ns0:FindActivity ListId="{}{DD89B2BF-CB7D-4E2E-BF0A-5883D63B442C}" x:Name="ID83" FieldName="Author" ......cut...../>

Parameter ListID - it's public property of FindActivity class (I'm thinck so).

And questions is: the first pair of {} - that is? Does this the WebID or not?

If that is'nt WebID then what is?

PS Sorry for my English.

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spdblog — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:15:17 GMT

Freeman,

WebID is implied by the workflow's web. It isnt passed into the FindActivity. ListID can be a name of a list or a GUID. The first pair of {} is not used to determine web or list.

Stefan,

That is a great topic for future posts. I'll add it to the list.

-Gabe Hall

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FreemanRU — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:08 GMT

spdblog,

Thanks. Why i'am ask for - i'm want to use linked List for FindActivity from another Web (but same Site scope)

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Raymond Mitchell — Tue, 22 May 2007 21:13:58 GMT

Is there a way to deploy your new "authorizedType" to the Web.config (similar to adding a safe controls entry) using a SharePoint Solution?

I would like to allow deployment of new SPD Actions via SharePoint Solution deployment.

Thanks!

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Raghu Iyer — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:57:35 GMT

Excellent, well though there are number of other articles on custom activity but i was stuck in an issue which ur "pitfall" section took care.

Thanks,

http://metahat.blogspot.com

re: Adding Activities to SPD

Philipp — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:26:05 GMT

Cool, with every new article there is one new detail... ;-)

But as stefan allready asked. Is there a list with all available designer types? Would be a great insight...

And if there is a way to extend or buid custom ones, even better.

[ブログ紹介] Visual Studio (VS) で作成した SharePoint のワークフローを SharePoint Designer (SPD) で使用する方法

松崎剛ブログ (Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki Blog) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:31:01 GMT

こんにちは。方法を掲載しようと思いましたが、既にチュートリアルとサンプルのダウンロードが可能なページがありますのでご紹介します。（下記リンク） Adding Activities to SPD (Microsoft

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Stefan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:39:33 GMT

Hi all,

I have found the wssacions.xsd at http://johnholliday.net/download/wssactions.xsd. There you can find all available Designertypes:

<xs:enumeration value="ChooseDocLibItem" />

<xs:enumeration value="ChooseListItem" />

<xs:enumeration value="CreateListItem" />

<xs:enumeration value="Date" />

<xs:enumeration value="Dropdown" />

<xs:enumeration value="Email" />

<xs:enumeration value="Integer" />

<xs:enumeration value="FieldNames" />

<xs:enumeration value="ListNames" />

<xs:enumeration value="Operator" />

<xs:enumeration value="ParameterNames" />

<xs:enumeration value="Person" />

<xs:enumeration value="SinglePerson" />

<xs:enumeration value="StringBuilder" />

<xs:enumeration value="Survey" />

<xs:enumeration value="TextArea" />

<xs:enumeration value="UpdateListItem" />

<xs:enumeration value="WritableFieldNames" />

But i still need help for designing custom designertypes.

HELP!!

Bye

Stefan

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has — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:30:41 GMT

I have checked and double checked everything, but I still can't this to work. My activity is showing up is SPD, but nothing is showing up after I select it. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

I have made sure that all the entries match, but I still can't seem to make it work.

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Paul Galvin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:48:34 GMT

Great article!

I am able to deploy my custom action and it shows up in SPD. I can create a workflow and select the action. However, when I enter data into one of the fillin fields and press return, the value does not "stick". I'm sure there is some obvious thing I"m doing wrong, but it appears consistent with this and other workflow examples I have found. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

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FredCote — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:41:21 GMT

Me too same thing happen to me, I can see it in Custom Activities I got my Move File Activity but when I select it nothing show

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Jon Frank — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:52:37 GMT

I'd been having the same problem, where I add a custom activity to the .ACTIONS file, added the authroizedType to web.config, and properly deployed the DLL into the GAC and yet no text would show up in the Workflow Designer when I selected my custom activity. After checking and rechecking, I took a stab in the dark on the off chance it might work.

As it turns out it did. The problem seemed to involve an extra space in the Assebly string in either web.config or the .ACTIONS file.

I'd had 'Assembly="Examples.SampleActivity, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=abcedf1234567890 "' in both web.config and WSS.ACTIONS. Removing the extra space after the PublicKeyToken's value in both locations fixed the problem. I imagine this is simply a parsing bug in SPD, since that space really shouldn't mess anything up, but fortunately it's a simple fix.

Hopefully this saves someone from the hours of frustrating errorless debugging that I had to go through. Take care,

-Jon

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Edgardo — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:04:49 GMT

Hi,

nice article, but I still have a problem. Could someone explain me, how can I read the workflow's initiator name and save it in a variable. I need this as an activity in SP Designer. I must assign a task (collect data) to the workflow initiator, but I far as I know, there is no way OOTB. I have not figured any workaround and this is very urgent.

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Pantera71 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:25:47 GMT

Hi,

it seems that my previous comment (question) didn't get posted.

Within a workflow I need to assign a task to the task initiator. This seems pretty trivial, but there is no way of doing it in SPD with OOTB activities. I want to write an activity in which I just read the initiator's name and the save it a variable. How can I create such an activity in I pass an output variable the string?

Thank you in advance!

-Edgardo

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Ismail — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:27:53 GMT

Question regarding Pitfall discussed here:

I have been trying to use a simple Activity(from activity library) from two days.

As explained by other, even i have the same problem

I am able to see custom activity, but nothing happens in SPD.

I made sure that there is no discrepancy in .ACTIONS and web.config file.

Please help.

Getting to Workflow Information

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:28:43 GMT

Hi, I'm Phil Allen, a developer with the SharePoint Designer team who works primarily on Workflow. Today

re: Adding Activities to SPD

Chanda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:46:31 GMT

Thanks for the article! Unlike many others this didn't skip the info in Step 2 that was needed to deploy the assembly.

For those that are running into the issue that the text/sentence doesn't show up when you select the action in SPD, don't overlook the step of doing an IISRESET on the server once you have modified the .ACTIONS and the web.config files - this fixed the issue for me.

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Rich Rockwell — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:52:21 GMT

I have the same question as Edgardo - how can I capture the name of the initiator of a workflow to use it in the workflow in SharePoint Designer, such as in a variable.

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Susangita — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:30:24 GMT

In a document libraray ,for the record while clicking delete i am invoking a custom approval workflow .

If the document has been approved then only it 'll be deleted.

In my event handler class I am desebaling the delete event and then starting my workflow & in my workflow code while approving i am trying to delete the record .But it's showing error that u r not supposed to delete it.

Is there any way to solve this problem?

Creating Re-usable Email Templates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:04:38 GMT

Hi there, I’m Jordan Hull, a Software Development Engineer in Test on the SharePoint Designer Workflow

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Viji — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:10:01 GMT

For people who are still having issues with nothing happening in SPD when choosing the custom activity, here's a pointer - I had the same issue and I figured the token in assembly tag should have space after the comma. What I mean is :

Correct assembly string: Assembly="CustomWFActivity1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6117140bb48139dd"

Incorrect assembly string : Assembly="CustomWFActivity1,Version=1.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=6117140bb48139dd"

Note the spaces after each comma in the correct string - this seems stupid, but this resolved the issue for me.

And remember to do IISReset after ensuring the assembly token is the same in web.config and the actions file.

Hope this helps someone.

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Robert — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:00:16 GMT

Hello Eilene and Gabe:

This is save my days, Thanks.

An quick question, Do you have a try to make the workflow activity as a SharePoint solution package before? I wonder to know does possible to do that?

Thanks

-Robert

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DP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:12:39 GMT

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone had expiriensing the same issue. I'm using a code below to set the properties for the task, and it's working just fine exept for AssignedTo field. In debug mode it shows the value for alll of the field, but when the task is created only Description and Title are showing up???

Thanks in advance,

Private Sub CreateTask(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

taskId = Guid.NewGuid

taskProperties.Description = "Please Approve this Change Control Form"

taskProperties.Title = "Change Control Form is waiting for your approval"

taskProperties.AssignedTo = workflowProperties.Item("AssignedTo").ToString

taskProperties.SendEmailNotification = True

End Sub

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Baher — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:48:00 GMT

hey there,

i want to ask a question , i know it's somewhat irrelivant to the subject but i couldn't find anywhere else to ask, my problem is that when i want to create a website i choose Fie -> New -> Web Site and then when it shows me three options to choose from on the left General , Templates, and SharePoint Templates.

When i select the General one three options appear , but when i select either one of the two options nothing appear , i am new to sharepoint and i don't have any clue what to do , so your help will be very appreciated. thanks in advance.

Baher.

Des activités métiers pour vos Workflows SharePoint Designer : une bonne technique

The Mit's Blog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:23:05 GMT

La conception et le développement de workflow sous SharePoint peut des fois donner le sentiment d'un

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Erik — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:01:31 GMT

Thank you very much Viji.

You save my weekend

Erik

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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:57:18 GMT

As Edgardo and Pantera71 question

How do you get the workflow's initiator name and save it in a variable?

And supplementary....

Can this be done in Sharepoint Designer and if so how it’s such a basic simple requirement?

Any help would be most gratefully received, it's driving me nuts!!

re: Adding Activities to SPD

David Townsend — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:19:15 GMT

Excllent Article! Thanks for the zip of the code

-Dave

SharePoint Designer Workflow and Email Attachments -- A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished

Mirrored Blogs — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:29:59 GMT

Sadly, it is not to be. We cannot send an email with attachments from a SharePoint Designer workflow

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Bhavik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:11:50 GMT

I cant open the default.aspx file in SPD HTML version.

It does open in notepad but when selected SPD HTML as the default editor, it does nothing.

Does anybody know what could be the issue?

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saro — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:09:57 GMT

How can we send email to more than one people???