13 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow – Part 1
Bjørn Furuknap, UnderstandingSharePoint.com, is the author of the USP Journal. He and I have worked out a nice little perk for EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter Subscribers.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an exclusive edition just for EndUserSharePoint.com that includes the first two chapters of the journal.
Here’s the deal. Bjørn is in the process of creating a set of five screencasts on SharePoint Designer Workflow for us. The first screencast is available below. He will cover various aspects of SharePoint Designer Workflow in the screencasts to supplement the information provided in the USP Journal. We will include two chapters from the journal in next Monday’s newsletter. Just that simple. Take a look at his first solution…
If you like what you saw here, please register for the Weekly Newsletter and on May 25th, you will receive a special edition of the USP Journal on SharePoint Designer Workflow. As you know, EndUserSharePoint.com is all about community involvement and I think the free release of this content is indicative that Bjørn and the USP Journal agree.
If you are already a subscriber to our newsletter, I would very much appreciate it if you’d send a link of this article to two friends, telling them of next week’s offer.
Regards,
Mark Miller, Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com
- 13 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1
- 15 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 2
- 22 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 3
- 24 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 4
- 15 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 5
- Special Download: Two Chapter Excerpt - SharePoint Designer Workflow
- 24 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow, Part 6 of 5
Thanks Mark,
For anyone watching the screencasts, if you have questions or comments, or would like clarification on certain topics, please feel free to email me at journal @ understandingsharepoint.com or by commenting on any of the screencast posts. Not sure if I’ll be able to answer them in the next screencasts, but I’ll try to answer everyone in writing :-)
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Bjørn,
Great video. Excellent explanation and very helpful idea about the initiation capabilities of SPD workflows.
Kudos and Thanks!
Thanks, this was very helpful and concise.
This one was cool and useful, looking forward to the other ones, thanx mr Furuknapp.
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Is there a way to create a workflow to generate a report (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), based on content taken from a list?
Say I want a weekly production report automatically generated in a Word Document (or email) and distributed to designated recipients. I would want to use a report template and have Sharepoint fill-in certain merge fields within the text of the template. Easy?
Joe
Thanks for putting this together. It’s a very good intro to SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflows.
One of the shortcomings to using Designer to create worflows over using Visual Studio is that it only creates these workflows and formfor a specific list, and cannot create something that can be used on other sites and lists. Can you explain how one would convert this workflow and form into a SharePoint feature?
Can one use both a SharePoint Designer workflow associated and a SharePoint “out of the box” aproval workflow at the same time on the same list?
I have a sharepoint list, with a sharepoint out of the box approval workflow. I have been trying to create a SharePoint Designer workflow that, at the end of the approval workflow, would recognize completion and send an email. It should work similar to this workflow, but it never seems to send the email. I have been unable to find any log file that tells me why. So, does this sound like something that is even possible?
Sir,
I’m curious…
I’m using SP WSS 3.0 and Designer ‘07. My workflows from inside SP WSS work fine. The workflows that I created in Designer work fine when I initiate them manually. But for some reason, when an activity occurs that should cause the Designer built workflows to trigger, nothing happens.
Any suggestions?