workflow

Workflow as WCF Service Unexpectedly stops

We have a .Net 3.5 Workflow hosted as a service that sometimes stops unexpectedly. This has occurred at times while it is writing a file and, most recently, when receiving a reply from another WCF service. There are no exceptions being caught, as these all get logged, and there are no messages in the event logs on the server where both...

Dependency Property With Windows Workflow

Hello, I have a situation where I have a workflow that uses custom activities within a activity library. The workflow uses the custom activities that moves from custom activity 1 to custom activity 2. In custom activity 1 I create a dependency property that passes in my object (say a Widget) with custom properties. Inside the activity...

How to become more productive using Scala? (Tools, IDEs)

Hi SO members, What Tools do you people use to work with Scala? For my learning phase, I used the Scala REPL and hacked some code with TextMate and compiled it with the scalac CLI. But as the projects grow in size, much more sophisticated tools are required. I am aware of the Scala plugins for Elipse, IntelliJ and Netbeans and I tried ...

Workflow: How can I signal one branch of a parallel activity to end from another branch?

I have a workflow with a parallel activity, where one branch does work and the other has a receive activity that can shut the workflow down (is the proper way to do this with a HandleExternalEvent instead?). The problem, of course, is that if the receive activity is never called, the work branch completes and waits on the receive activi...

Update Item Lookup in Sharepoint Workflow

Hi. I have several lists, each has a workflow to its item created event that creates another item in a third list. Every workflow creates an item in that list. By the way, each list has different columns, so they're not identical. Everything is fine up to this point. But i want to edit the previously inserted item (to the buffer list) ...

Batch processing with Windows Workflow

Can anybody please provide any links and/or recommendations for the processing of batch information with Windows Workflow. Specifically, I am looking at an invoicing scenario where there are complex rules required for the generation of prices and I am looking to be able to read in excess of 50k rows of data from a SQL Server 2008 databa...

How to customize emails generated by adding a task in sharepoint designer

Hi, the email that is generated when a task is assigned by sharepoint workflow doesn't fit my needs and I would either like to customize it. If anyone knows how to customize this email, please let me know. ...

SPWorkflowActivationProperties.Item is NULL in Simple SharePoint Workflow

I have generated a C# SharePoint Sequential Workflow project using the very handy STSDEV tool (it got me around the requirement to have access to a 32-bit SharePoint installation which is required for other tools such as VSeWSS 1.3). I've added a simple 'modify the title' action to test my basic setup: public sealed partial class CopyW...

What is the workflow for development using EJB3 with Eclipse Galileo and Glassfish v3?

I'm starting to learn EJB3 and I'm a bit lost when it comes to setting up Eclipse. I've got Glassfish v3 prelude downloaded and set up in Eclipse, but when I attempt to publish my EJB project to the server, I'm told that the server is incompatible with the EJB3 facet of the project. What would the proper steps be to create a new EJB3 pr...

Suggestions needed for threading and process architecture for search engine software.

The software is a classic search engine. There is one portion of the app that is tasked with crawling/collecting data, and there is another that takes that data and builds an index or database. The final portion handles queries from clients, and performs a search on the data, before retrieving the results. The specific engine that I'm d...

SharePoint Workflows not starting

SHAREPOINT WORKFLOWS ERROR on one (of more) WebApplication. I need some help regarding the above title. After applying SP1 pack on our SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 3.0) the workflows aren't working anymmore on one of the WebApplications (located in SSP2) Workflows work, however on other existing applications (on SSP1 or SSP2) or newl...

Adding a 'Save Draft' button for task in Sharepoint Visual Studio workflow

So this is my question: how do I add a 'Save Draft' button, to a Visual Studio Sharepoint workflow, which will save the form information to the task list, but not complete the task? I copied the ListForm template for the tasks and added an <asp:Button runat='server' Text='Save Draft' OnClick='???'/>, but now I'm stumped. I implement m...

WCF Workflow Service single instance correlation

Using visual studio 2010 RC/.Net 4.0 I have a wcf workflow service with three receive activities defined, basically StartProcessing, StopProcessing, and GetProcessingStatus. This is a long running service that continues to poll an external service for data once StartProcessing is called, until StopProcessing is called. My problem is wi...

Sequential workflow console application template missing in VS2010 Ultimate Beta2

Hi, I am using VS2010 ultimate Beta2 and under Visual C# -> Workflow -> I don't see the Sequential workflow console application or state machine console application Could someone please advise why these are missing in VS2010. I am able to see them on VS2008 ->Workflow. Thank you ...

Registering ustom tracking participants through code in workflow foundation 4.0

I'm having touble trying to attach a custom tracking participant in workflow foundation 4.0. I have a class that inherits from TrackingParticipant but I cannot see any other way of attaching it to my WorkflowServiceHost other than through lots of messy app.config entries like the SDK example demonstrates below (in the system.servicemodel...

OnWorkflowItemChanged for document library item - determine if metadata or file has changed?

In SharePoint Workflow - for a document library how do I determine if document metadata or document itself has changed? Both SPListItem.Versions and SPFile.Versions are added when i only change metadata (like file title). Also SPFile.Length changes if I only change metadata. ...

Move SharePoint Designer workflow from one document library to another

Hi, I built a sharepoint workflow for a "test" document library. I would now like to move this workflow to a "prod" document library. I copied the workflow in sharepoint designer from one document library to the next successfully. However when I bring up the wizard and try to change the document library the workflow was made for I am ...

Workflow/Decision Tree Data Entry - Any Frameworks/COTS Products?

I've seen a bunch of posts here about viewing a decision tree or workflow, but what about the data entry part of it? We are being asked to write an application that asks questions and based on the answer, either: Show more questions & request an answer from the user, Display data entry fields to the user that eventually get stored in...

simple web based document management app - with workflow

hi.. conducting a broad search for an "open source" php web based app that allows for a basic workflow process for moving docs from one user to the next, based on the role/access control of the user. the idea, is that a doc can be submitted to the site. a user who's assigned a roleA for the doc is notified that the doc is ready.. the u...

Workflow for Creating Project and User Records in ASP.NET MVC Application

I have an application which has a Projects table and a Users table. In my Create New Project form I have a required field for Project Manager. However, the User record for Project Manager may not exist yet. Project Manager is a required field. Up to now I have been developing the application on a "one screen, one record" basis, but t...