SPD Workflow: Real-life business workflows developed with SharePoint Designer

Introduction This article acts as an indexer for referencing pages that provide step-by-step descriptions for developing SPD workflows that solve real-life business problems. Articles Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders Companies often turn to some kind of automated reminder system to prod End Users into marking their tasks complete, thereby allowing those beautifuly orchestrated business processes to proceed as designed. This article describes how “Power” End Users and Developers alike can use SharePoint Designer to create an automated task reminder system based on SharePoint’s core workflow capability. http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/the-dog-ate-my-task-use-sharepoint-designer-to-email-daily-task-reminders Task Escalation using Workflows Organizations sometimes need to have a system that automatically escalates overdue tasks to other people. This article illustrates how to achieve this business target using a SharePoint Designer workflow. http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/10/task-escalation-using-workflows.html Looping Through Items in a SharePoint List with SharePoint Designer Workflows One of the things that most frustrates developers about SharePoint Designer workflows is that there is no convenient way to write loops. Not only can we not create For…Next, For…Each, Do…While, and Do…Until loops within our workflows, but there is no obvious way to loop through items in a list. This article removes that last barrier! http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/05/looping-through-items-in-sharepoint.html Useful SPD workflows A collection of my articles that answer common SPD workflow questions posted on the MSDN forums. http://samar-hossam-sharepoint-spot.blogspot.com/search/label/Workflows%20-%20Useful%20SPD%20workflows