What is SharePoint Workflows?

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What is SharePoint Workflows?

  • Workflows are a real poweful tool built-in in SharePoint, a series of actions that correspond to a work process to  improve business processes without any custom coding. 
Workflows have set of




  • Events -(* An item is created.* An item is changed)
  • Actions -(* Create, copy, change, or delete list items (including documents),* Check items in or out. * Send an e-mail message)
  • Conditions -(* If item is created)
  • steps - defined by user,for better understanding.

Types:

 List Workflows-created for on the particular list
 Reusable List Workflows - created in top level site in site collection
 Site workflows - associated with sites.

Windows Workflow Foundation supports two fundamental workflow styles:


sequential workflow-a workflow as a procession of steps that execute in order until the last activity completes.The state machine can have a final state that determines the end of the workflow.
state machine workflow-represents a set of states, transitions, and actions.The state machine can have a final state that determines the end of the workflow.

 see this link for an example  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/workflows_for_product_catalogs/archive/2012/11/02/create-a-simple-workflow-that-reads-from-and-writes-to-a-product-catalog.aspx

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