https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/50.aspx enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/50345.aspxWed, 06 Jan 2010 11:28:43 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:50345SmittyDidit0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/50345.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=50&PostID=50345<p>Greetings all,</p> <p>My observations with a forms library with required check out and check in is that the workflow evaluation does not start untill after the check in takes place.</p> <p>This means that basically you cannot do a chek in from the workflow, yet this seems to be the answer that i found in several posts about automated check in.</p> <p>So it seems that a Check In action in SPD workflow is useless if the item itself resides in a library which has required check out / in configured...</p> <p>Effectively the even though the XML is saved to the forms library, you must always manually check in, which is not user friendly....</p> <p>Maybe I&#39;m doing something wrong... any thoughts, any alternatives?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>