Workflow

Re: Write workflow with visual studio or sharepoint designer ?

Navid — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:43:31 GMT

oh ... I found the answer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tanx Godddd !!

Re: Write workflow with visual studio or sharepoint designer ?

Navid — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:03:05 GMT

Hi and tanx about your explanations ..

How can I give u more information about the second problem ?? (Failed to load the workflow)

Re: Write workflow with visual studio or sharepoint designer ?

vt_asparagus — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:55:54 GMT

The difference is complexity. With workflows in SharePoint Designer you are typically bound to doing simple things like sending emails or creating a task for a person. It does not integrate well with IP 2007 if you have plans to do multiple forms that you want to incorporate into a single process. It is possible to create an activity library and then use that within the SharePoint designer.

You can do more complex workflows in Visual Studio but they are pretty difficult to do, there is little documentation available (the examples on MSDN do not work), etc. My company is pretty hooked into MS and we have some relative success with them but it will take some effort.

If you have complex workflows you want to use InfoPath and SharePoint integrating with other possible actors across your enterprise I would look at K2 but it can be expensive. It is the right choice.

Watch out, when you use SharePoint Designer, the workflows you write are NOT re-usable across sites and using the SharePoint designer with make your site customized (or ghosting in the 2003). This is bad and you want to avoid doing that.

The Failed to load the workflow is a fairly generic error - I would need more information to help.

Jason

Write workflow with visual studio or sharepoint designer ?

Navid — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:08:35 GMT

Hi ! I have 2 basic questions about writing a custom workflow :

1 - What is the difference between writing a workflow with Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer ?? When we should use each one ??

and the next one (more important !):

2 - I recieve "Failed to load the workflow" message every time I want to create a new workflow with sharepoint designer on my sharepoint site. I've described and posted it here :

http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/thread/18256.aspx

I didn't find any helpful answer till now ... :(

I apprecite any recommendations !!