Designing a Cross-organizational Case Management System using Dynamic Condition Response Graphs

Få forretningen til at håndtere arbejdsprocesserne

En af de centrale udfordringen at sætte strøm til arbejdsprocesser er at få forretningsbrugerne til at formulere processen og efterfølgende få denne designet og implementeret af IT folk. Der tales forskellige sprog og der er langt fra tanke til handling.

Tænk hvis det var muligt at forretningsbrugeren på en og samme tid udtrykker arbejdsgangene og dermed samtidig designer og implementerer processen i et IT system. Dermed vill man sikre at forretningsbrugeren kunne tage ansvaret for arbejdsgangene da de ikke som udgangspunkt skal have IT folk involveret i processen.

Exformatics taler på ITU seminar mandag den 7. december 2009 om udfordringerne ved at realisere en sådan tankegang.

Great workflow tutorial - expense reporting

Creating a custom SharePoint workflow isn't as easy as you might expect. However, a great tutorial can be found here.

Strange workflow error - visual studio - Error 319 (0x13F)

Using Visual Studio.NET 2005 we're trying to create a new workflow. However, we get a strange error in VS.Net 2005 as outlined below:

Error 4 Property 'WorkflowProperties' has invalid value. Field type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties' does not match with the expected type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties'.

Any hints, ideas etc?

Workflow error codes can be found on MSDN, but little information about how to fix them.

I also get the error as outlined below:

Could not bind property 'WorkflowProperties'
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Library, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

I'm also trying to update VS.Net 2005 with "Windows Workflow Foundation Extensions for Visual Studio 2005" as outlined in various guidelines. However, it seems that Microsoft has renamed the tool - at least I cannot find the latest released on MSDN. I often wonder why it has to be soooooooo difficult.

InfoPath password field

InfoPath doesn't support a password field otu of the box. An explanation of this can be found at Microsoft, but I don't really buy this explanation as InfoPath can be used for many purposes, i.e. like editing SharePoint tasks which is an online thing tightly integrated with SharePoint.

A workaround, using a custom task pane is outlined here. Unfortuntale that will not work with MOSS workflows :-(

A custom ActiveX component might be the only solution - quite difficult to manage and setup. But it is possible to create the control is Visual Basic 6.0 as outlined here.

Other ideas very much appreciated.

It seems that I could use Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA). Will elaborate more shortly...

Replace MOSS 2007 built-in Approval Workflow

Using the SharePoint ECM SDK I have managed to setup the Custom Approval Workflow sample - it works as expected.

However, co-existing with SharePoint default content approval seems to be quite confusing - especially to end-users. Both approval workflows appears in the end-user interface as outlined below:



In the example above I have approved the content using the Sample Appoval Workflow from ECM. Notice that the status is Approved for Sample Approval Workflow - whereas it is still pending for the built-in approval workflow.

If approving using the built-in approval buttons the system will notify me during the approval with the following message:






resulting in the following screen:



Now my content has been approved by the built-in approval workflow - whereas it is cancelled in my custom workflow.

Ideas very much appreciated.

Filtering a view based on workflow status

I have tried to create a view to display items that are pending various workflow status. So far without any luck - but luckily I found this article. It's even better explained (graphical) here. So simply use the integer number rather than the text value.

Replace MOSS 2007 built-in Approval Workflow

SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) comes with a built-in workflow for content approval.

In some situations you might wish to replace this approval with you own custom workflow.

The tricky thing is how to accomplish this. While you can easily add new workflows to a list or a content type, I cannot figure out how the existing built-in workflow is replaced automatically.

The DefaultContentApprovalWorkflowId property seems to be solution - the only issue is that it doesn't work as the built-in workflow is not replaced.

Any ideas?

ItemAuditing - fine grained custom auditing for SharePoint 2007

SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (MOSS) ships with an information policy that enables audit trails of various events within SharePoint.

If you wish to develop your own auditing, you can use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the ItemAuditing example. First read the whitepaper and setup instructions - then download the code and try it out. This example is also part of SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) SDK.

Failed on Start - MOSS workflow

If the error "Failed on Start" occur while trying to start the workflow look into the LOGS files found at %Program Files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS. The information provided is excellent - you'll get a detailled explanation of the issue.