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Now let’s add some actions in our stage 1 as described below –
1) Add an action “Add a comment” in ‘Stage 1’.
2) Add an action “Assign a task”.
3) Send an email.
4) Copy document.
At the end, your workflow diagram should look like below –
You will now see the default workflows associated with your site.
Now from the “Workflows” ribbon, select “Import from Visio” and
pick “Import Visio 2013 Diagram”
Let’s save the workflow diagram with the name
“CustomerApprovalWF”. After saving the workflow diagram, we
can validate the workflow using the ‘Check Diagram’ option to run
rudimentary checks for default values etc. in our workflow.
Click on “Process” tab and click on “Check Diagram” as shown
below –
Select “CustomerApprovalWF.vxds” file and click on “Open” button.
It will ask for the following –
1. The name of the Workflow.
2. Description of the Workflow.
3. Workflow type. [List or Site or Reusable workflow].
4. SharePoint list name with which you want to associate a
workflow.
By this time, I assume, you have already created a SharePoint site,
if not, go ahead and create one. Now it’s time to create two
document libraries, we’ll give the following names for this
example –
Let’s write a name of the workflow as
“CustomerProfileApprovalWorkflow”. Write description as “New
Customer Profile Approval Workflow”. From the Workflow type
dropdown list, choose “Reusable Workflow” and select the
Document Library “CustomerProfiles” as shown below –
1) Customer Profiles.
2) Customer Profiles Status.
Now let’s open SharePoint Designer 2013 and open the
SharePoint site in which we have created the Document Libraries.
On the left pane “Navigation”, click on “Workflows” as shown
here –
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