Friday, June 02, 2006 8:17 AM Jan Tielens

Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

If you have installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) in the “Beta-2-has-been-released-yeah!” rush and didn’t read any documentation or didn’t watch any webcast, you’ll probably notice that some items have moved compared to Beta 1 and Beta 1TR. I “lost” the menu item in the SharePoint Designer that opened the wizard to create a new workflow.  After a couple of minutes I discovered the new location, so let me share that with you. First of all: open the site on which you’d like to create to workflow in SharePoint Designer (File menu, Open Site).  Next, in the File menu, click New and select Workflow. Tadaaa!

Alternatively you can use the Common toolbar  as well:

FYI: if you don't see the workflow menu items etc, you've probably enabled the Contributor Settings, see this post for more information.

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# "Contributor settings" and re-enabling workflow in MOSS Beta 2

Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:28 AM by Breaking Point Blog

    Two useful postings form Jan Tielens on things which have moved around between Beta...

# re: Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:04 PM by Idi

What other tools or framework, do you need to install if you whant to use Workflow designer in Sharepoint Designer ?

# re: Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:16 PM by Sansanwal

Make sure you install

"Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime" after installing sharepoint 2007 designer

# re: Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:57 AM by secgen99

I get a "Missing component Detected"  ....Microsoft Windows Workflow Designer....  I installed it and de-installed it and again.  It still comes up with the same error.  I already upgraded to B2TR

# re: Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:50 AM by gopenath

For some sites when i open in sharepoint designer iam getting workflow (file / new) but for some i am not getting that workflow(file/new)   -  anyidea why???

# re: Where did Workflow go In SharePoint Designer Beta2?

Monday, June 04, 2007 9:56 AM by Tineke

Hi,

I'm trying to customize my own WF in Sharepoint designer, but I have some difficultees.

I have a document library with metadata like 'Owner' and 'Approver'.

But now, I would like to have the following WF on my document library:

1. User(contributor) = document Modifier: starts this WF manually. (WF Status = pending)

2. Email is send to the Owner (metatdata).

3. Owner has to send feedback about document: 'review ok'    or 'review nok' (How to set up User Activity in SPD?)

4.a. If OK --> Start approval WF and send an Email to Approver (also same as metatdata approver)

4.b. If NOK --> Email send back to document Modifier and WF status = Rejected and closed.

5.  (If 4.a = OK) Approver received email and needs to check document and send: 'Reject' or 'Approve'.

6.a. Reject --> Email send to Owner and Modifier that WF has been rejected and closed.

6.b. Approve --> Email send to Owner and Modifier that WF has been approved + Publish your document in document library (draft to publish) + Create new major version.

==> It should be something like that.

It is not possible to create a User activity or I didn't find it yet. (step 4 and 6) I've read something like creating an activity in WF of VS 2005 and changing the wss.action file... , but I don't have the possiblity to manage that.

Is there another solution for this via Office SPD only? I've searched, but didn't found something usefull.  Any help is useful.

Thanks in Advance!

Regards,