1. Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Technical Enablement Tour
Patrick Tisseghem (Managing Partner – U2U)

2. The Power Of Workflow

3. Agenda WSS Platform Fundamentals Workflow Web Content Management
Information Management Policies
Records Repository
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4. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
29/04/2019

5. Windows WorkFlow Foundation
Single workflow technology for Windows
Extensible framework & toolset
Base for Microsoft products and customer solutions
Transform workflow from niche to mainstream paradigm
Exposed to developers via WinFX (now called .NET 3.0)

6. Workflow Basics Custom Workflow consists out of one or more activities
Activity Libraries
WF Base Activity Library
WSS Activity Library
Custom Libraries
Activity is a class
Events/Properties
Methods called by WF Runtime engine
WF created using Visual Studio.NET
Deployed as .NET assembly

7. Office 2007 Workflow Vision
To facilitate automating business processes
by attaching business logic to items and documents
by providing workflow context and tracking progress
by seamlessly integrating workflow into the SharePoint UI
To provide users with self-service capabilities
by using solutions that ship with Office servers
by supporting broad range of routing & tracking scenarios
by lessening/eliminating required involvement of IT staff
To provide developers with an extensibility point
to build WF solutions on top of WSS v3 and Office servers

8. WSS Workflow Fundamentals
WSS supports workflows on items and documents
Workflows associated with list, document library or content type
Workflow started and completed by user actions
Workflows are managed using WSS task lists
Workflow-related task lists use standard WSS task list schema
Workflow activities create and update task items as required
Workflows are tracked through history tables
Allows users to see workflow progress

9. Out-of-box Workflows With WSS v3 With Office servers Moderation
Approval
Disposition Approval
East Asian Approval
Issue Tracking
Collect Feedback
Collect Signatures

10. Out-of-the-box Workflow with MOSS 2007
DEMO
Out-of-the-box Workflow with MOSS 2007

11. Workflow Authoring for SharePoint 2007
SharePoint Designer
for corporate Web designers
Visual Studio Workflow Designer
for professional developers
Development Model
Wizard-based workflow designer
Development Model
Visual workflow designer
Activities
Re-use OOB/deployed activities
Activities
Re-use OOB/deployed activities
Can author new activities
Forms
Autogenerated Forms
-ASPX
Forms
Designed Forms
-InfoPath
-ASPX
Deployment
Workflow authored live against server
Runtime compilation
Deployment
Solutions package generated
Box administrator installable

12. Creating Custom Workflows
DEMO
Creating Custom Workflows

13. Questions?

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