Category: WorkFlow

The essence of a WorkFlow is the progression of steps (tasks, events, interactions) that comprise a work process, which involve two or more persons and creates or add value to the organisation’s activities. In a sequential workflow, each step is dependent on occurrence of the previous step; in a parallel workflow, two or more steps can occur concurrently.

As you can imagine, these can can get quite complicated rather quickly. Naturally, you are going to need help in depicting a sequence of operations, the work of a person or group, the work of an organisation of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms.

Therefore, this category is full of handy tips, tricks, advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn from our eBooks, how to videos and webinars.

SharePoint 2013 for the Decision Maker
SharePoint 2013 for the Decision Maker
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Microsoft unveiled Office 2013, including SharePoint 2013, the newest versions of Office 365, and all other related products. It’s been a huge week in the Twittersphere and blogosphere.
There’s little that hasn’t been said already about the new products and their features. There are even blogs describing, in detail, deployment and implementation procedures. Perhaps the perspective I can provide that’s unique is to tell you what I am telling C- and D- level executives, as well as IT Pros and Devs, about what all of this means to your business and the choices you need to make.

SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features
SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features
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Here are some Top Features of SharePoint 2013 that will start to sell your business on investigating the Preview. All of these features are documented in TechNet. I’ll do a Top 10 for each audience as more information becomes available.

SharePoint 2013 – My View on What’s New (particularly for developers)
SharePoint 2013 – My View on What’s New (particularly for developers)
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So the SharePoint 2013 (previously known as ‘SharePoint 15’, the internal name) public beta is finally here. And that means that MVPs, TAP participants and other folks with early access are no longer bound by their non-disclosure agreements and can now talk about the product publicly. No doubt there will be a flurry of blog posts, but I wanted to write up my thoughts on what has struck a chord with me in the next version – partly because I have friends and colleagues who might look to me for this information, but mainly because it helps me crystallize my thinking on some of the new aspects. This started as a “developer perspective” article, but hopefully also gives a sense of what the new version brings for everyone.

Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
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In April 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 – a comprehensive set of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that allow any organization to obtain hosted, cloud-based access to Exchange, Lync, Office Web Applications – and SharePoint Online. All offer guaranteed uptime, fault tolerance, contractual service levels and clear, predictable pricing.

Let's Celebrate and Tie Ribbons Around SharePoint
Let’s Celebrate and Tie Ribbons Around SharePoint
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​SharePoint 2010 is coming up to its 2 year birthday, so it worth talking about Ribbons. Too often solutions concentrate on pages, Web Parts, lists, libraries and workflows. A SharePoint solution should be more than this – each of these components should be combined to provide users with a holistic solution, where the components work together and not as discrete entities.

SharePoint Online Overview
SharePoint Online Overview
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I guess you all already noticed that Microsoft and all other major players are moving towards cloud computing and offering various online services. SharePoint wasn’t skipped in that movement, so now Microsoft also offers SharePoint Online services as the part of the Microsoft Office 365 service.

Future of Business Processes – State Workflows
Future of Business Processes – State Workflows
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The concept of workflows comes from the time when work was rather mechanical. People (and later machines) were supposed to repeat precisely defined steps in a fixed order (or sequence). Any deviation from prescribed path, any thinking and improvising was not welcome. Assembly lines or microprocessors – they were all realizing rigid sequences.

Nintex Workflow Version 2.3 - Enhanced Integration and Cloud Services
Nintex Workflow Version 2.3 – Enhanced Integration and Cloud Services
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Nintex Workflow 2010 Version 2.3 was unveiled on January 10th. Nintex has improved the integration tools available in Nintex Workflow v2.3, making it even easier to leverage your in-house business data and systems. Nintex Live, www.nintex.com/live an online catalog of powerful cloud services you can use in your workflow designs, has also been added to Nintex Workflow v2.3. With its growing set of cloud-based actions, Nintex Live extends your workflows to Office 365 and allows you to integrate a wide selection of online services directly into your business processes.

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Use “Check Out” and “Check In” actions with globally reusable workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 by Kim Frehe
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I love that SharePoint Designer gives you the ability to create reusable workflows. It’s even better that you can select “All” as the content type. However, I have come across a minor issue with being able to update an item that requires check in and check out via workflow and being able to apply that to “any” list, content type, page or document. You can’t start a workflow on an item that’s checked out, but you can’t update an item that’s checked in. When you try to use the “Check out” action, you are expected to select a list to check out an item from.

Leveraging SharePoint and Colligo to Replace Traditional Email Archiving Solutions
Leveraging SharePoint and Colligo to Replace Traditional Email Archiving Solutions
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Recently, we’ve been working with a customer on a particularly interesting use case for SharePoint that I thought others in the community might be interested in learning more about. The customer is using Zantaz (from Autonomy/HP) for email archiving with a primary focus around eDiscovery, email retention and legal hold. A number of factors are driving the review their current implementation, including its age and cost to maintain, and concerns about the recent flux in HP strategy