I am trying to implement a Workflow, where the user needs to select a destination document library.
I could figure out two possible ways:
Once the user manually starts the workflow, we would display a webpage where he would select the destination document library.
we would initially display a webpage. where User would select the destination.
After clicking a button the workflow would kick start.
Now for possibility "1":
How to redirect from a worlflow to a webpage. [tried Server.Transfer, but failed].
for Possibility "2":
How to start a workflow on button click.
Please also suggest which among the above 2 possibilities is a better solution.
What you need is a workflow initiation form. Exactly how you implement it and how much functionality can get will depend on the type of workflow you are working on, but you should be able to set up something to choose the destination.
I am assuming that you are talking about writing a workflow using Visual Studio. Personally, I would try creating a SharePoint designer workflow first to see if that meets your requirements.
In SharePoint Designer you can create an initiation form that accepts data from a user when they manually start the workflow. If the out of the box actions don't quite do what you need them to, you can create your own reusable custom workflow actions.
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I have already create my workflow on SharePoint designer and publish it to my SharePoint library so the Column which has the workflow name was added but the link to start my workflow(has the name of my first step) doesn't appear.
You question is a bit vague but the column in the list simply shows the status of the workflow. To kick off the workflow manually, you need to go to the library and select the item you want to kick the workflow off for. In the ribbon, there is an option to go to workflow settings and in that page you will have the option to start the workflow. If you have correctly built the workflow this should run it. You left important information out of your request such as what version of SharePoint, what triggers your workflow, etc.. so this is the best I can do with that. If that does not solve the issue, I would suggest providing more information. Not many people will take any time to do guess work.
I have a big Infopath form which is part of a complex workflow that involves collecting input and signatures from various users, as well as approvals.
Currently, that same workflow is being done manually — the Infopath form is actually a PDF form and the workflow steps are performed by the actual users who fill out the form, emailing it afterwards to whoever they think it may concern.
I'm on the process of automatizing this using our Sharepoint Server infrastructure, so the first thing was translating the PDF form to an Infopath one. The second would be to produce a Sharepoint workflow that would implement the business process of getting that form properly filled.
So my question is: is it possible to implement a Sharepoint Workflow that sends the full form to the correct users based on the information gathered by the form itself? Ideally, the form would be passed around using the rules defined in the workflow process, users would fill whatever necessary, submit the form and the workflow would continue based on whatever is filled. This form would not only be the initiator form, but the form to be handled in all the workflow tasks.
Breaking the form apart is not desirable as this would confuse our users, and some of them need the overview provided by the full form view. Also, I'd like to use Sharepoint as the form distributor, instead of the email service, if possible.
Any pointers in how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
This is possible.
Here are the pointers in brief:
Create a content type with your infopath form as item form
Create a visual studio workflow that is associated to your content
type
In the code of the workflow you can implement any rules of
processing the form. you're able to get the form data from the list
item you workflow runs in context of.
We are trying to achieve the following using Sharepoint:
The user is presented with a form, which they fill out. Upon clicking 'submit', Sharepoint runs a workflow using the inputted information that copies documents to lists, generates reports etc.
We were thinking of achieving this by getting the user to run a site workflow, and presenting the form as a workflow initiation form. The problem we have, however, is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way for getting the user to run the workflow, and be presented with the form.
Is there an easy way to run a specific workflow? I'm aware that the user can view all the site workflows and run them using Site Actions -> view all site content -> site workflows, but this isn't ideal for our user, who only wants to fill out the form and click submit.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I've spent hours googling and searching this site for info, and this does seem like something that should be easy to do.
So you could catch the event when the user submits the form and then start your workflow from code. To start a workflow, follow this blog article: Starting SharePoint 2010 Site Workflows from code.
I am new this sharepoint development and i have task in hand to do the following.
1.When a new document added to the library, the system will prompt for approvers & audience from a database table. this will be stored for future revisions for the document.
2. Upon successful completion of assigning approvers, audience the system will initiate the workflow to complete the approval process.
It would be great if anyone can point the direction to do the following:
1.is it possible to call a aspx page/form from document library insert/update event?
2.How to assign approvers to a workflow programmatically?
Thanks in Advance!
Alex
I'm not sure it is possible to explicitly call another page but you can use the "Source" url parameter to specify the page they are directed to after they press OK. Obviously, you will have to change "www.google.com" to be your new URL.
/Lists/Announcements/NewForm.aspx?Source=www.google.com
You can probably do all of this using custom workflow. With custom workflow you have two options: creating the entire workflow in visual studio or create custom workflow actions and using SharePoint Designer to build the workflow.
Building custom Workflow Actions.
I'm currently creating (in Visual Studio) a simple approval workflow within SharePoint so that I can execute some custom code once the user has approved an item. However, it seems that when I don't specify an approval form to use, SharePoint just selects a default one with a "Complete Task" button, but no "Reject" button.
Is there some sort of default approve/reject form I can reference in my code to give users both choices, instead of writing my own page or copy/pasting from the web?
P.S. I'd like to stay away from InfoPath. This is a really simple workflow that shouldn't take much time, and I feel like going the InfoPath route would take much more time than it's worth.
As far as I know, there is no such built-in form. The choices for your own approval form are InfoPath or a custom ASPX. From personal experience using either approach requires considerably more effort to develop than it really should but if InfoPath is available, use it because in my opinion it is quite a lot quicker and I believe has the added advantage that the task can be edited in Outlook (2007).