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1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Introduction to SharePoint workflows -- 1. SharePoint workflows for your business processes -- 1.1. What is a workflow? -- 1.2. How does SharePoint help? -- 1.3. SharePoint as a technology platform -- Windows Workflow Foundation architecture -- Types of workflows -- 1.4. Workflow-enabled SharePoint objects -- List items -- InfoPath forms -- Content types -- SharePoint sites -- 1.5. Out-of-the-box SharePoint workflows -- Three-state workflow -- Approval workflow -- Collect Feedback workflow -- Collect Signatures workflow -- Disposition Approval workflow -- Translation Management workflow -- 1.6. Tools for building custom SharePoint workflows -- SharePoint Designer 2010 -- Visual Studio.NET 2010 -- Visio 2010 -- Forms -- Object models -- 1.7. New workflow functions -- Visio 2010 SharePoint workflows -- Customizing the out-of-the-box workflows -- New actions and conditions in SharePoint Designer -- Reusable workflows -- Site workflows -- Task processing customization -- Workflow templates in SharePoint Designer -- Viewing workflow status with Visio web access -- Importing SharePoint Designer workflows into Visual Studio -- Visual Studio 2010 environment improvements -- Pluggable workflows -- New event handlers -- 1.8. Building custom workflow solutions -- Diagramming business processes -- Identifying human interaction and SharePoint objects -- Determining the deployment scope -- Choosing appropriate workflow authoring tools -- 1.9. Real-world examples -- 1.10. Summary -- 2. Your first workflow -- 2.1. Planning and preparing for your workflow -- Identifying your business process -- Introducing the Three-state workflow -- Preparing a document library for the Three-state workflow -- 2.2. Implementing a workflow -- Adding the Three-state workflow to a document library -- Starting a workflow -- Testing the workflow -- 2.3. Maintaining workflow instances -- Working with the workflow status screen -- Terminating workflows -- Deleting workflows -- Unauthorized access to workflows -- Enabling or disabling SharePoint Designer workflows -- Preserving workflow history -- 2.4. Additional out-of-the-box workflows -- Approval workflow -- Collect Feedback workflow -- Collect Signatures workflow -- Disposition Approval workflow -- Translation Management workflow -- 2.5. Summary -- pt. 2 No-code SharePoint workflows -- 3. Custom Designer workflows -- 3.1. Introduction to SharePoint Designer workflows -- List workflows -- Site workflows -- Reusable workflows -- Globally reusable workflows -- Workflow templates -- SPD's user interface -- 3.2.Components of a SharePoint Designer workflow -- Steps -- Conditions -- Actions -- Variables -- Else-if branches -- Workflow forms -- 3.3. Creating your first SharePoint Designer workflow -- Configuring a PTO calendar -- Creating a custom workflow that logs to the History List -- Adding notifications to the custom PTO Request workflow -- Adding calculation logic to the workflow -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Task processing in SharePoint Designer workflows -- 4.1. SharePoint Designer task actions -- Assigning To-do items -- Using the Assign a Form to a Group action for a survey -- Using tasks to collect data from a user -- 4.2. Custom task processes in SharePoint Designer workflows -- Customization box: changing the overall task process -- Task Form Fields box: customizing the task edit form -- Customization box: changing the behavior of a single Task -- Task Outcomes box: defining custom task outcomes -- Assignment stages -- 4.3. Summary -- 5. Advanced SharePoint Designer workflows -- 5.1. SharePoint Designer workflow templates -- 5.2. Customizing the out-of-the-box workflows -- 5.3. Workflow actions for document sets -- Creating document sets -- Document set workflow actions -- Document set and Records Center workflow example -- 5.4. Workflow actions and conditions for security -- Impersonation steps -- Security-related conditions and actions -- Working with permissions and security in a workflow -- 5.5. External data in a SharePoint Designer workflow -- Configuring a Secure Store Service -- Creating an External Content Type -- Creating a workflow using the External Content Type -- 5.6. Summary -- 6. Custom Visio SharePoint workflows -- 6.1. Introducing Visio workflows -- 6.2. Building a Visio workflow -- 6.3. Importing a Visio workflow into SharePoint Designer -- 6.4. Publishing and Visio Graphic Services -- 6.5. Summary -- 7. Custom form fundamentals -- 7.1. Tools used to build custom forms -- New and Edit forms -- InfoPath 2010 Forms -- ASP.NET forms built in Visual Studio -- 7.2. Customizing out-of-the-box forms with InfoPath -- 7.3. Publishing a template to a form library -- 7.4. Publishing a template to a content type -- 7.5. Mapping form data to columns -- 7.6. Forms in SharePoint Designer workflows -- 7.7. Summary -- pt. 3 Custom-coded SharePoint workflows -- 8. Custom Visual Studio workflows -- 8.1. Introducing Visual Studio workflows -- Working with the workflow's template -- Workflow deployment artifacts -- Sequential vs. state machine workflows -- 8.2. Building a sequential workflow -- 8.3. Building a state machine workflow -- 8.4. Importing an SPD Workflow into Visual Studio -- 8.5. Summary -- 9. Forms in Visual Studio workflows -- 9.1. Adding NET code to an InfoPath form -- 9.2. Programmatically retrieving form data from within a workflow -- 9.3. InfoPath forms in Visual Studio workflow -- Building a custom association form -- Building a custom initiation form -- Working with the association or initiation form data -- Configuring activities for workflow modifications -- Building a custom modification form -- 9.4. ASP.NET forms in Visual Studio workflows -- 9.5. Summary -- 10. Workflows and task processes -- 10.1. Using task-related activities -- 10.2. Custom task edit forms -- 10.3. Summary -- 11. Custom workflow activities and conditions -- 11.1. Building custom leaf activities -- Custom activity fundamentals -- Adding dependency properties and validation -- Property validation -- Activity toolbox items -- Theming your activity -- 11.2. Building custom composite activities -- 11.3. Publishing activities to SharePoint Designer -- 11.4. Building custom conditions for SharePoint Designer -- 11.5. Summary -- 12.A bag of workflow developer tricks -- 12.1. Fault handling and debugging workflows -- 12.2. Versioning workflows -- 12.3. Building workflow event receivers -- 12.4. Pluggable workflow services -- 12.5. SharePoint workflow object model -- 12.6. Summary |
| Summary |
SharePoint 2010 is a huge technology with tens of thousands of companies adopting it from all across the globe. Within the SharePoint product stack, workflows are one of the most compelling and ROI generating features for many business. SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action will take you through the SharePoint workflow fundamentals, and all the way to very advanced topics to help you meet your most complex workflow requirements. This includes covering topics such as the out of box workflows, and building custom workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, Office Visio 2010, and Visual Studio 2010. Additionally, the book covers topics that are very important to workflow such as building forms with InfoPath 2010, building custom task processes, building custom activities and conditions, and how to leverage external data sources in your workflows via Business Connectivity Services. Other goodies include building State Machine workflows, leveraging ASP.NET forms, workflow event handlers, and publishing custom actions and conditions into SharePoint Designer. The book is a one stop shop workflow resource for anyone building workflows for the SharePoint 2010 platform |
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Print version record |
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Microsoft SharePoint (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007067120
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Workflow -- Computer programs
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Intranets (Computer networks)
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intranets.
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Intranets (Computer networks)
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Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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Engineering & Applied Sciences.
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Telecommunications.
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Electronic book
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2011410532 |
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