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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By : Ed Musters
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By: Ed Musters

Overview of this book

<p>There is a heavy demand in the marketplace for SharePoint developers that you could take advantage of - if only you had the opportunity to acquire the relevant skills! But, SharePoint 2010 is a big old product with a steep learning curve &ndash; where do you begin? <br /><br />This book has been designed to take the experienced ASP.NET developer from &ldquo;beginner&rdquo; to &ldquo;professional&rdquo; SharePoint developer in the shortest amount of time. You will be productive on you very first SharePoint development assignment with the knowledge and skills that you learn here. You will have distilled the essence of the author&rsquo;s many years of training, and leading development teams in SharePoint. <br /><br />This book uncovers the most common &ldquo;pattern&rdquo; of typical SharePoint development tasks encountered in the real world and puts the topics in a logical order with detailed step-by-step recipes for you to follow. <br />The practical example given builds and flows throughout the chapters and topics. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts to the challenges ahead of you!</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to implement Visio 2010 workflows


In this recipe, we will implement the Visio 2010 workflow created in the previous recipe, and we will accomplish this by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

How to do it...

Now we will import, implement, and enhance the workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer 2010 to the Chapter 7 URL. In the Navigation section, click on Workflows.

  2. In the ribbon, click on the Import from Visio button. On the dialog that pops up, browse to the ProposalAmountWorkflow.vwi file. Click on Next.

  3. In the Import Workflow from Visio Drawing dialog, provide a workflow name such as Proposal Amount Approval, and run this as a List Workflow against the proposals list. Click on Finish:

  4. The workflow edit screen will open. Fill in all of the Log to History list messages appropriately. Change the title box of the workflow.

  5. We will use a variable to hold the dollar limit that will trigger an approval. In the ribbon, click on Local Variables. On the...