 SharePoint Workflow
Made Simple
Lets assume
your organization has implemented Microsoft® SharePoint, and you have no doubt
realized the power of document libraries and collaboration features. To further
the success of the Microsoft® SharePoint you need to orchestrate document
authoring, review, approval, publishing, and audit processes easily and cost
effectively. By integrating Workflow Solutions you can now enable robust
parallel and serial document workflow rules within your organization. You can
easily experience full control of a documents lifecycle, complete with
versioning and audit trails for legislative compliance requirements.
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 The Windows Workflow
Foundation run-time engine for SharePoint manages the execution of a tree of
activities. It allows us to extend SharePoint value by providing a rich
execution environment of: transactions, persistence, tracking, timer, and
threading.
Windows Workflow
Foundation allows us to visually design algorithms to solve your business
problems. A workflow describes a flow of data and actions. Therefore, any
scenario where an IF or a WHILE statement are required can be a workflow. The
real benefit of a workflow-based solution consists of making complex processes
simpler to model and implement, and, more importantly, evolve and extend.
Automating Business Process via a gallery of
Workflows
SynEcology's SharePoint consultants can assist to create a
gallery of custom SharePoint workflows for which your departments or power users
can pull from and utilize. With this workflow gallery approach, the exact custom
workflow a user may need may not exist, but there might be one available in the
gallery that can be slightly modified or “tweaked” to accomplish your goals.
Having this custom workflow gallery also provides ideas to those who are
thinking about using custom workflows but have not seen them in action. It’s a
great way to increase buy-in and get more users involved in workflow
utilization.
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SharePoint Designer 2007 has powerful built-in tools to
automate business processes with its Workflow Designer. It gives you a
powerful and easy-to-use application tailored specifically for SharePoint.
SharePoint Designer 2007 works with ASP.NET 2.0 and the Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) to give you the ability to apply workflows to automate
business processes. SharePoint Designer 2007’s Workflow Designer allows you
to set up custom workflow conditions and actions, link them to your
SharePoint data, and deploy them with a single click, all without installing
server code.
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One of the best features of SharePoint Designer 2007 is
its no-code solutions which are ideal for your organization’s administrators
and power users. No-code workflows are based on rules built on Windows
Workflow Foundation hosting within SharePoint. They are composed of
pre-existing building blocks and conditional logic based on events, actions,
and conditions. They support rich data bindings to list items and are
extensible via custom actions and conditions.
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