workflow

Holiday Approval /tracking

Hi, Has anyone implemented a holiday workflow approval / tracking list in MOSS Sharepoint 2007? Can anyone suggests other solutions? The solution below works fine but I am specifically looking for a way to lookup manager of the user who created the holiday request list item in the workflow. I have followed this link http://www.u2u.in...

Git workflow idea to push an unfinished local branch to remote for backup purposes

Say I'm currently working on a new feature which I've branched off of the 'dev' branch and I've been working for several days and it's not yet ready to be merged with 'dev' and pushed. Although I have made several commits and have been pulling changes to dev and then merging dev into my feature branch to keep myself updated. Here's my ...

Windows Workflows - While Activity for creating multiple tasks not working

I am using a while activity for creating multiple tasks for a workflow. The code is executed fine and the task is created when the loop runs only once. But when the loop runs twice or more, only one task is getting created. Also the WF status shows as Error Occured. All I want to do here is create multiple tasks (no of tasks depends on ...

git workflow with review

I am in the process of implementing a review process for my small team (3 members). We are using git, and the model we want to use is integrator with blessed repository. Every developer has a public repo, and the integrator pulls the commits to include into the blessed repo. I see several alternatives for including reviews in this new ...

.NET Workflow Custom Activity - Custom Property

Hello, I am trying to set up a custom activity for one of my workflows. I can easily setup a String property for my activity however I would like to have a custom property which is a list of objects. More precisely, I would like to build a custom activity to execute stored procedures. I have to have a property for the Stored proc name...

Multiple clients to singleton WF Services

Do Windows Workflow Services allow multiple clients to one service? Basically what I am trying to do is this: construct a WF service that allows clients to "subscribe to the service" and then when certain events trigger a handler, it broadcasts data to each client. So basically something is going to process in the background and then whe...

SVN supports historical merges so how is Mercurial better?

Possible Duplicate: Merging: hg/git vs. svn Hi, I'm a long time SVN user and have been hearing a lot of brou ha ha with regard to mercurial and decentralised version control systems in general. The main touted feature that I am aware of is that merging in Mercurial is much easier because it records information for each merge ...

Development team collaboration via Google Wave

I hope I am not repeating any previously asked question. Anyway, so Google Wave is nice and shiny and sounds like a lot of folks(at least at Google I/O :) used it in a useful for work(!) way. I've been beta-testing Google Wave for sometime now, but can't quite grasp how to improve our workflow using it. We have a medium size team of dev...

MOSS Collect Data from user custom email

Hi, I am trying to send out a custom email, after the Collect Data from user step in my primary workflow which starts when an item in list X is created. I have created a secondary workflow to start when a new Task item is created (this is created by the Collect Data from user action in the primary workflow). But have a problem retriev...

Stopping the workflow if during approval process the outcome is "Rejected" in SPD

If a custom WF in SPD contains several Approval process steps regardless of the outcome of the previous approval process Sharepoint launches the next one. I am trying to change this so that the workflow is terminated if during the 1st approval process it is rejected. ...

How to implement reassigning a task functionality to WSS 3.0?

Hi to all, I am trying to create a work flow where it should collect data's from a user. Also, in this work flow, users should be able to change tasks 'Assigned To' field value(Reassign task). I can't get it done in SharePoint Designer with these workflows: 1) A main work flow which waits second workflow to set a spesific field when i...

Exception thrown on secondary workflow

Hi All, I am running a workflow fired when a new list item is created, the workflow creates a new task item and sends an email. This works fine. I have another workflow fired when a task item is modified, when I try and modify the task item and click complete an exception: I have checked the recycle bin and the item asscociated with ...

sharepoint approval workflow loop

Hi All, I am trying to set up a Approval workflow when item created and item updated event on a list and then update the approval status as workflow complete. Now when I create a new Item the workflow kicks off as expected. When I edit the same item and approve the item new workflow get started as the item get edit. It seems to be workf...

Change mapping in the session

I have a Informatica session which is linked to a wrong mapping. How do i change the mapping from M1 to M2 in the same session S1 and Workflow W1 WITHOUT importing/exporting as XML and making the changes ??? ...

Maintaining a framework and applications based on that framework

Hello, I have written a simple framework (actually collection of libraries) and a number of applications based on that framework. These framework and applications both have their own mercurial repositories. When I update the framework repository, I copy all framework files to application folders one by one. This work flow causes me some...

Guidance for Workflow type applications

Hi, I'm looking for best practices and resources regarding design of workflow based applications. E.g.Best practice/guidance for: How best to represent business object 'states' (position in workflow) How to approach logging of transition between workflow states State transition rules I'm using .NET, but am rather looking for general...

Workflow's UpdateAllTasks method clears out DueDate field.

I have problem with UpdateAllTasks activity. Before executing this activity, I have a task as seen in workflow history here: But when task gets finished, i`m calling UpdateAllTasks to update some properties for every task, but DueDate column for all tasks are cleared as seen here: This particular thing is happening in updateTaskData ...

Weird Workflow Behavior in Sharepoint 2007

I have a Document Library A and a list B. When a document added to A, an item is created in B with the Title = A.Url. Another workflow runs whenever a document is updated in A which makes a lookup: B.Title = A.Url, and changes another column in B in found item. Item Change Workflow always gives "Error Occurred: List item is not found"....

Problem with EMail action in SPD 2010

Any ideas why EMAil action would not send out emails? Outgoing SMTP is configured and is sending out the usual notifications. However custom email via the EMail action is not sending emails when used inside custom workflow. SPD is 2010 and Sharepoint version is 2010 ...

How do i execute an MSBuild Task in VS2010 Web Deployment Build Template?

Hi all, We've recently upgraded from VS2008 -> VS2010 (and hence upgrading from Web Deployment Project to proper deployment project). Obviously what's new in VS2010 web deployments is the introduction of Workflow as the build process template. Previously, we used a MSBuild task in the WDP to execute the Yahoo YUI Javascript/CSS compr...