workflow

OnTaskChanged event being fired within ListenActivity, but not OnWorkflowItemChanged.

I'm monitoring for either Workflow Task Change Workflow Item Change OnApprovalTaskChanged is being fired, but not onWorkflowItemChanged. Is this a known issue and what could be a workaround? If i remove ListenActivity, onWorkflowItemChanged gets triggered! Here is part of my workflow: ...

Is it possible create an output property to show endtime on custom activity properties when activity completed

when do the custom activity in .net 3.5, I tried to add a datetime property to show user when the activity completed, however as this property will be assigned value during workflow runtime, it cannot been show up the value to user, do you guys have any idea? ...

Workflow Foundation .NET 4 learning resources

Can you recommend some resources (web or book) providing an introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4? Basic introduction is what I need at the moment but I would also very appreciate advanced-level materials. Thanks! ...

How do you combine "Revision Control" with "WorkFlow" for R?

Hello all, I remember coming across R users writing that they use "Revision control" (e.g: "Source control"), and I am curious to know: How do you combine "Revision control" with your statistical analysis WorkFlow? Two (very) interesting discussions talk about how to deal with the WorkFlow. But neither of them refer to the revision con...

Urgent: Lotus notes workflow migration to SharePoint.

Hello All, I am new to lotus notes, so need help and suggestions. Is there any way to access workflows from lotus notes? Can we write any automated tool to migrate general lotus workflow to SharePoint directly ...

How does Git's concept of the Index improve or change your workflow?

I've been trying to use Git on my personal projects for almost a month now. I have a pretty good understanding of the basic set of commands and while its user experience isn't awesome, I still find myself liking Git more than the other VCS's I've used in the past. However, one concept that I still don't think I have "gotten" is the r...

WSS caches old Workflow version

Hi, I'm currently developing three workflows that are supposed to handle the status of items in different lists. Each Workflow is attached to a separate list. When I'm deploying and debugging in my development Environment, everything works fine. Except for the case, when an item is created via an incoming mail. I already figured out, th...

SVN and deployment workflow

Trying to keep it simple, but with almost no experience in version control, here is what I came up with for version and deployment workflow for a facebook application that is already live: Development: branch from trunk checkout and setup dev enviroment (automatically create database, netbeans project, facebook app, config file); St...

How to set work item state / reason when using Pending Changes window

I am using a custom workflow for tasks in TFS 2010. However, when I check in code using the Pending Changes window and "Resolve" a task it is automatically put into a state of Closed with a reason of Cut. Is there any way to modify this behavior? ...

MVC + Workflow combination

Hi, I would like to use workflow as a back-end logic for my asp MVC application, is this a good combination? How can this be done for complex application logic? Thanks. ...

Workflow Services Duplex Binding

Is Duplex Binding supported in windows Workflow Services and WCF integration? Can an activity "register" with a WCF service and then can a WCF service raise an event to the registered activity in the workflow when it needs to? ...

Problem using webclient object to download a file in SharePoint email enabled document library

I am using webclient object to download a file to a windows folder from a sharepoint document library. The credentials I am passing to the webclient object are that of site collection administrator. everything works fine while i test it by uploading a file to the document library. But since the document library is email enabled; when an ...

What's the feature in Mercurial that gives me "checkpoints" that I can diff against without commiting frequent, breaking, small changes?

I'm developing a project, and I am making small, exploratory changes. After each change, I'd like to diff against the previous version I had. However, I don't want to commit each of these small changes to the permanent history until I'm satisfied that the final change should be made permanent. Then I'd like to commit it in one go. What'...

Which windows account is used to upload files to SharePoint document library?

I am using the following code WindowsIdentity wIdb4 = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); string name = wIdb4.Name; in a workflow to show which user account is being used to upload a document. When i write the above mentioned string in a workflow history event, it always returns NETWORK SERVICE, even if i am logged in using the site...

Cannot associate a custom SharePoint Workflow with a Content Type in SharePoint Server 2010

To preface, I am working with SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC. I have built a custom Content Type based on the Item type with a few custom site columns. I also have built a custom Sequential Workflow using Visual Studio 2010. This is a relatively simple workflow that creates a task, waits for the task to ...

Configuring business logic tier from WCF Service Application

I have a business logic tier I work with that requires configuration based on a custom configuration file. When using this tier within a web or windows application, I initialize the business logic tier within application startup, passing in the path to the configuration file which is configured in app.config or web.config. I'm now tryin...

Is this WSP uninstallation script complete?

I am using the following script for uninstallation of a wsp workflow feature. Please can someone check and confirm that it contains all the required steps for the uninstallation or not. I am doubtful because when i run this uninstallation script and install the new version of the wsp; the workflow still behaves similar to what it did wi...

Problem - SharePoint Workflow runs as previous version when an email is received

I have modified a SharePoint visual studio workflow which works as per requirement on the dev machine. I have to deploy it to an email enabled document library on sharepoint server and it is set to be started automatically when a new item is added to the library. When i deploy it to the server, and perform a manual upload to the doc libr...

C# Workflow ManualWorkflowSchedulerService Multithreading Question

Hey guys, I just wanted to verify what I'm doing is correct. It came to our attention that a Windows Service had a pretty serious memory leak. I was able to track it down to how Workflow was being called. I reworked it a bit to stop the memory leak, but I wanted to validate that the code is doing what I think it is. Note I do not kno...

Programming without code

Hi everybody. What is the best way to implement business processes without writing code? I want to implement about 200 forms and workflows without writing a line of code because I want our customer to be able to extend the software without our help. What is the best way to generate forms and then add business processes to them? Thanks ...