Articles and discussions on Workflow Foundation and SharePoint

SharePoint Workflow Foundation and Standard editions limitations
November 30, 2012
Using HarePoint Workflow Extentions, you need to consider in what version of SharePoint you will use the created Workflows. Please keep these limitations in mind when creating workflows in SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Standard.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Workflow Foundation
SharePoint custom action: pro and con
November 7, 2012
SharePoint workflow is a very convenient way to solve automation problem without programming. However, at any step aside from common tasks such as document approval workflow, developers face insufficient functionality of workflow actions delivered with the product.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Workflow Foundation
Visio Workflows
October 26, 2012
This article is about various ways of creating a workflow using Microsoft Visio. Several software products for SharePoint 2010 workflow design are currently available on the market. First of all, these are certainly Microsoft products – SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visio Premium. Secondly, the third-party solutions.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Workflow Foundation
Printing feature in HarePoint Workflow Extensions for SharePoint
May 22, 2012
Printing activities in HarePoint Workflow Extensions provide unique opportunity to print any required documents directly from SharePoint workflow. These activities allow you to enhance your business processes providing the feature to print the documents and images automatically.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Print, Workflow Foundation
Using PowerShell in Workflow to create mailboxes on Exchange Server
April 24, 2012
This example will show you the possibility of using the capabilities of PowerShell in workflows. Here we will discuss some capabilities of interaction between workflows and the Microsoft Exchange server using PowerShell scripts, however, the capabilities of using PowerShell scripts in SharePoint workflows are not limited by this.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Exchange Server, PowerShell, Workflow Foundation
Workflow approval by e-mail in SharePoint
April 21, 2012
This example will show you how to use the capabilities of actions from the HarePoint Workflow Extensions set for working with E-Mail. We will consider sending of messages and processing of incoming messages.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Approval, Email, Workflow Foundation
Receive and process messages, and send e-mail with SharePoint Workflow
January 17, 2012
This example will show you how to use HarePoint Workflow Extension working with the mail service, receive and process messages, send e-mail.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Email, Workflow Foundation
Generation of the invoice. PDF Conversion with SharePoint workflow.
November 25, 2011
This article describes how to create SharePoint Workflow which automatically generates and sends invoices to e-mail recipients. The invoice will be generated and sent as soon as a new item is added into the list.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Convert, Invoice, PDF, Workflow Foundation
Publishing News from RSS feeds in SharePoint
October 31, 2011
This example will show you how to get news from RSS feeds, publish them on the SharePoint website and how to run automatically workflows according to the schedule. We will create a workflow that retrieves news from RSS feeds and publishes them in one of the lists on the website.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags RSS, Workflow Foundation
How to download and process XML file in SharePoint Workflow
September 24, 2011
This workflow example shows you how to get data from an XML file. We will download the XML with currency exchange rates from European Central Bank, get a list of currencies and their exchange rates. We will convert this information into HTML and save in Shared Documents. To create such a workflow we will use both SharePoint workflow components and the components added by HarePoint Workflow Extensions, because it is impossible to prepare such a workflow using merely its own SharePoint Workflow components.
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Categories SharePoint workflowsTags Workflow Foundation, XML