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In the next step, we will assign ‘send an email’ to the creator of
the document about the approval status of the workflow, with the
comments from the approver. Click on “these users”. Now format
your mail as described below –
1. To – Current Item Created By (User who created current item).
2. CC – Sam Robert (Manager/Approver).
3. Add or Change Lookup with the message as shown below –
You will see our workflow “CustomerProfileApprovalWorkflow”. To
start the workflow, click on the
“CustomerProfileApprovalWorkflow”. Now check your Workflow
tasks list. You will see a task has been added in it. Complete the
task by approving or rejecting the customer profile.
Once the email formatting is done, click on “OK” button.
Check your email box and check the Customer Profile Status
Library, you will see a mail and document copy.
Finally we will setup the Workflow Task to copy the document
from “Customer Profile” into “Customer Profiles Status” document
library with the status of the document as shown below –
That is all. Your workflow is ready for the deployment.
Save the workflow and click on Publish workflow button from the
“Workflow” ribbon.
The Workflow in Action
Now let’s create a word document and upload it into Customer
Profiles document library of our SharePoint site.
Once the document is uploaded, click on the “Workflows” by
selecting the document as shown here –
Conclusion
To summarize, we saw how to install and configure Workflow
Manager for SharePoint Server 2013 and use Visio and Sharepoint
Designer to design, import, implement and deploy the workflow.
We only had a very brief look at Workflow Development in
SharePoint 2013. It has come a long way now and has enough
components out of the box to support complex business
processes. As with most Microsoft Business Software, it comes with
excellent Tooling Support to make things as easy as possible for
the ‘non-coding’ end user
Pravinkumar works as a freelance
corporate trainer and consultant on
Microsoft Technologies. He is also
passionate about technologies like
SharePoint, ASP.NET, WCF. Pravin enjoys
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