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INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT 2013 WORKFLOW – PART II

Presented by

Srini Sistla@srinisistla

ABOUT ME

SHAREPOINT ARCHITECT / CONSULTANT / SME

SPEAKER INETA, SharePoint Saturday, CAPAREA.NET, SUGDC, Reston SPUG, Baltimore SUG etc.

BLOGGER

AUTHOR Pro SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence (Apress) Pro SharePoint Migration (Apress) SharePoint 2013 Development Machine (Self Published) Pro SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence (Apress)

AGENDA

Recap

Lab Session: How to use SharePoint Designer to build workflows for 2013 and 2010

What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2013?

Lab Session: Using new workflow features in SharePoint Designer 2013

Build advanced workflows using Visual Studio

RE-CAP

ARCHITECTURE

Sharing

ContentEvents People

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SharePoint2010 WF

_API (REST OM)

Workflow Services Manager

Service Bus

Instances Interop

Deployment

Messaging

WF Service Application Proxy

Workflow Manager

OAuth

Access Control

Work

flow

Clie

nt

Enhanced parallel blocks

Do “App-Level” operations with App Step

Rapid design with the Visual and Text-Based Designers

Stages! Looping! Enhanced portability & packaging through WSP and VSDX files

Support classic 2010 workflow type and interoperability

Leverage web services(HTTP/REST)

Complex data types with ‘Dictionary’ variables

Full integration with Project Server workflows

Copy & Paste in the Text-Based Designer

New “Assign A Task” & “Start a Task Process” actions

IMPROVEMENTS

Enhanced parallel blocks

Do “App-Level” operations with App Step

Leverage web services(HTTP/REST)

Copy & Paste in the Text-Based Designer

Stages!

Rapid design with the Visual and Text-Based Designers

Complex data types with ‘Dictionary’ variables

Looping!

New “Assign A Task” & “Start a Task Process” actions

Enhanced portability & packaging through WSP and VSDX files

Support classic 2010 workflow type and interoperability

Full integration with Project Server workflows

IMPROVEMENTS

IMPROVEMENTS

New “Assign A Task” & “Start a Task Process” actions

Enhanced portability & packaging through WSP and VSDX files

Support classic 2010 workflow type and interoperability

Do “App-Level” operations with App Step

Enhanced parallel blocks

Full integration with Project Server workflows

NEARLY 50 NEW/IMPROVED FEATURES AND ACTIONS THIS RELEASE!!!!

LAB

Leverage SharePoint 2013 out of the box features as much as possible for

Quick and Rapid App Development and delivery

Use SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows and in specific HTTP/REST Web Services

Use Dictionary Variables

Assign A Task

Stages Demonstrate on the list what stage of the workflow currently the status is in

Use new Email features

Use the provided Visio diagram

DEMOhow-to?

MIGRATING FROM 2010 TO 2013

2013 is based on new architecture – Workflow Manager

Runs on Workflow Foundation 4

Declarative and is in XAML Format

2010 workflows run as-is on 2013 platform

Recreate them if you need to use them

Use workflow interop – allows 2010 workflows to run within 2013.

QUESTIONS, THANK YOU AND MY CONTACT

@srinisistla

http://blog.srinisistla.com