Workflows designed to automate organizational processes should be designed to support approved risk management procedures. The potential for problems to arise from workflows designed without attention to these procedures is too great to proceed otherwise. Properly attending to this requirement means proposing applications of SharePoint’s out-of-the-box approval workflow not only “horizontally”, but also “vertically” within […]
When is Visual Studio the Preferred Tool for Building Workflows for SharePoint 2013?
Readers may not be aware of the special cases where Visual Studio 2012, rather than SharePoint Designer, 2013, is the best tool for building workflows for SharePoint 2013. Microsoft® provides some of this information in an entry to the MSDN Library titled Develop SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio, which […]
Reduce SharePoint Development Costs with No Code Reusable Workflows
The biggest return on an investment in developing custom solutions can be found in the combined benefits of enterprise wide accessibility and utility. For SharePoint, reusable workflows are a great example of a method of delivering this high value benefit. In a video tutorial titled Intro to Workflow types, models, stages and app step usage […]
SharePoint Works Best as a Worflow Platform for Applications
In SharePoint-Videos’ set of video training content on SharePoint 2013 Worflows, SharePoint 2013: Workflows, Chris Beckett distinguishes between two types of workflow requirements: workflows for applications and workflows for Enterprise Systems Integration. Chris recommends using SharePoint as a platform for building workflows for applications. Stakeholders after a substantial return on their investment in SharePoint for […]
An Appetite for Document Workflow and Business Process Management Drives Enterprise Interest In SharePoint
Merely a minute into the third video tutorial in our SharePoint-Videos.com set on SharePoint 2013: Workflow, our instructor, Chris Beckett refers to a survey, conducted ” . . . a couple of years ago by Global 360 . . .” (quoted from a video tutorial titled “What’s new in 2013 Workflow and types of applications”). […]
Using SharePoint Workflows to Identify Inefficiencies in Business Processes
Workflows built on SharePoint lists and libraries can be used to identify problem points in business processes. Our newest DVD set of specialized training content for SharePoint 2013, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint presents several workflow examples useful for this purpose. Why would an organization consider implementing workflows for this purpose? Any SharePoint stakeholders monitoring their […]
Liberal Use of Content Types and Content Columns Underpin Any Successful Attempts to Implement Workflows in SharePoint
As Ira Fuchs explains in one of the first video tutorials included in his set, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint, any community looking to maximize the value of SharePoint’s workflow feature, will benefit from an understanding of content types and content columns. Fuchs claims SharePoint is actually entirely structured around content types. The value added for […]
SharePoint-Videos Releases a New Video Training DVD on Workflows for SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Workflows are not only a popular feature of SharePoint, but also a very promising method of capturing return on investment for stakeholders. Here are merely a couple of reasons why workflows possess this unique characteristic: Workflows can be put together by anyone capable of following a set of procedures. There is no need, whatsoever, for […]
The New Geolocation Columns Feature of SharePoint 2013 Adds Power to No-Code Solutions
As Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates in a free webinar recently published on SharePoint-Videos.com, titled WEBINAR – NO-CODE TOOLS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SHAREPOINT 2013 ON-PREMISE AND ONLINE, the new Geolocation Columns feature of SharePoint 2013 can be exploited by communities of SharePoint users to add power to workflows. Asif Rehmani defines “Geolocation” as […]
No-Code Solutions are an Important, Value-Packed Reason to Implement SharePoint
Bolt-on systems development, otherwise known as “no-code” solutions, are an important reason to implement SharePoint. Perhaps no other method of application development offers as rich an opportunity for Line of Business (LoB) users to participate, directly, in the development of computing solutions to satisfy their unique needs. SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, and Online can all […]