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• Logging Workflow Activity in SharePoint Designer

  Last week, I was working out how to loop and implement a state machine using SharePoint Designer and mentioned, as an aside, that I would probably write a blog post about better workflow logging. Well, Sanjeev Rajput beat me to it. Have a look . Saving Read More... Posted 18 May 2008 08:51 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Workflow

• Mea Culpa -- SharePoint Designer *CAN* Create State Machine Workflows

  I've recently learned that it's possible and even fairly easy to create a state machine workflow using SharePoint Designer. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that good stuff and I had a need this week that looked for an invention. Coincidentally, Read More... Posted 14 May 2008 22:27 by paul.galvin | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Workflow

• Quick and Simple: Make an InfoPath Form Read Only (InfoPath Forms Services in MOSS)

  There's a common business scenario like this: User fills out an InfoPath form. Submits form. Long-running workflow process kicks off. While the workflow is running, we don't want anyone to change the content of the form. This office.microsoft.com example Read More... Posted 25 April 2008 09:10 by paul.galvin | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow, InfoPath

• Use Semaphores in SharePoint Designer Workflow to Prevent Endless Loops

  It's possible to cause an endless loop in a SharePoint Designer workflow. A common implementation pattern like this causes the problem: Create a workflow and associate with a list. Indicate that it should start on create of new items and update of existing Read More... Posted 23 April 2008 20:07 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Workflow

• Walk-through: Fix Employee Training Template Available Seats Unregister Bug

  As many people know , the Employee Training template provided by Microsoft here has a bug that we can reproduce following these steps: Create a class with a max size of 10 students. Register --> Total available seats properly decrements by one. Result: Read More... Posted 16 April 2008 13:04 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Towards SharePoint Technical Design Patterns: SharePoint Designer Workflow + Event Receiver = High Potency Cocktail

  One of the emerging patterns I find in crafting SharePoint solutions leverages SharePoint Designer workflow and an event receiver. Here is a business scenario to put it in context: I upload a document to a doc lib. I kick off multi-step workflow created Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 19:37 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Workflow

• Observed Behavior: Moving SPD Workflows Within a Site Collection

  I'm giving this post a slightly oddball "Observed Behavior" lead since I'm a little leery of drawing conclusions from it. SPD workflows are ... temperamental. People are often asking / wondering / fretting over moving SPD workflows from one place to another. Read More... Posted 18 March 2008 09:55 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Quick and Simple: Workflow-only Update Field

  It's often useful to store status information in a custom list such as an approval code which should never be directly manipulated by end users. This is a common business scenario. I have been working on a project this year that generates various status Read More... Posted 17 March 2008 08:21 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Create Sites (SPWeb) via SharePoint Designer Workflow

  This blog entry is more of an "in the real of the possible" entry vs. concrete info. We have a technical design that calls for us to create a site in a site collection via a manually launched workflow process. Basically, users enter data into a "new customer" Read More... Posted 13 March 2008 07:37 by paul.galvin | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow