Wednesday, December 17, 2008

SPD Workflow: How to deploy an SPD workflow to another site?

A. Introduction SharePoint Designer provides a very simple workflow editing tool. Workflows authored in SPD can be developed very quickly. However, this ease of use come with a cost: SPD workflows cannot be reused from one list to another or one site to another. Well, the truth is, you can re-use your workflows on multiple lists by making a few careful modifications to your workflow files that exist within SPD. Nevertheless, this method is not recommended nor supported by Microsoft. B. Migration Steps For accomplishing this task, you have to manually perform changes in the XOML file(s). The following articles provide step-by-step guides: Re-using SharePoint Designer workflows in multiple lists: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbone/archive/2007/11/20/re-using-sharepoint-designer-workflows-in-multiple-lists.aspx Re-parenting a SharePoint Designer workflow to a different list: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2007/09/18/reparenting-a-workflow-to-a-different-list.aspx Applying a SharePoint Designer Workflow to multiple Lists: http://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/applying-a-sharepoint-designer-workflow-to-multiple-lists/ Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/07/06/porting-sharepoint-designer-workflows-to-visual-studio.aspx

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Samar Hossam!!!

I'm very thankful to you..Really your articles were very helpful for who working on SPD workflows ( me also:-) )!!
if possible can you eloborate the Workflows(Some Examples) using Visual Studio.

ThankYou!!!

Samar Hossam said...

Hello,

I am very happy to know that my articles were useful to you.
Concerning developing workflows with Visual Studio, I am also new to this field. I shall conquer this area soon. And when I do, you would certainly find articles about it.

So stay tuned :)

Regards,
Samar Hossam