Workflows in SharePoint

Read about the six new features of SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows including Reusable workflow, SharePoint Designer ribbon access, allows easy access, workflow action prompt, customise out of the box workflows, impersonation and two-way import/export between SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visio Premium 2010. read more...

With the release of Office 365, SharePoint Online gives organizations many of the same collaboration benefits as SharePoint while also providing the advantages of a cloud-based Software as a Service. SharePoint Online supports workflow through declarative workflows built in SharePoint Designer 2010 and deployed through sandbox solutions. If the built-in workflow actions don’t support the requirements of the workflow solution, you can build custom workflow actions using Visual Studio 2010 and deploy them to SharePoint Online via sandboxed solutions. read more...

Repeating tables are great EXCEPT for reporting and workflows… when we need to gather all of this information later, or run a workflow on each of the items in the table. The form fields regarding the basic trip information can each be promoted up to become columns in the SharePoint form library. Unfortunately, when we try to promote the fields in the repeating table, since the table is in a hierarchical information structure (a table within a list item), it is not easy to promote the fields to columns in SharePoint. read more...