Use case: You have been given a task to create an email notification from your workflow that contains full name of the user who created certain item, along with some other information that is irrelevant to this blog post. While creating workflows in SharePoint Designer you will quickly notice that…
Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 presents Accounts and Competitors as different entities. In most cases this setup might be sufficient, but sometimes an account can be a (potential) customer in one segment of your business, and a competitor in another. While working with my customer last week, this question popped up, and…
A reader Ajay asked: I have a requirement where I need to send automatic emails to the submitter of the out of the box approval workflow once its finished. I tried to create SharePoint workflow for sending email in the item changed event, but no hit. Would be grateful if…
I have created a custom approval workflow in a document library. On customize workflow screen I selected the following option: [x] Update the approval status (use this workflow to control content approval) During workflow testing I was surprised when SharePoint reported the following error: “An error has occured in Approval.“…
A customer of mine was playing around with Approval workflow. A problem she encountered was that some of her collagues have been unable to edit document. The only option that was visible in Word 2007 was: „Edit this task“ (figure 1). Figure 1. – Editing a task from Word 2007…