A familiar challenge facing lots of large organizations is how best to integrate custom software for Line of Business (LoB) requirements with enterprise applications, including SharePoint. With SharePoint 2013 workflow, no code developers can call web services. Better yet, LoB application developers needn’t know anything about SharePoint, they can also just simply call a web […]
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 […]
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 […]
More Ways to Put No Code Development to Work for Your Organization
On January 23, 2014, we will host an online class, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint 2013. This course will be led by Ira Fuchs, a SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft. Ira is also the author of a popular book, with the same name. Asif Rehmani, the President of Rehmani Consulting, Inc, and a SharePoint MVP has […]
SharePoint 2013 Workflows and Web Services
As Chris Beckett notes at the start of a 19 min video tutorial titled Calling Web Services – lecture, ” . . . one of the more powerful new features of SharePoint 2013 workflow, but probably also one of the most technically complex, [is web services]”. The complexity of this feature can constitute a formidable […]
App Step Workflows for SharePoint Server 2013
In a video tutorial titled Intro to Workflow types, models, stages and app step usage scenarios, Chris Beckett, subject matter expert and published author on the topic of workflows in a SharePoint Server computing environment, presents the concept of App Step Workflows for SharePoint Server 2013. Apps are a new method, introduced with SharePoint Server […]
More on the Differences Between Workflow Options in SharePoint Server 2013 and 2010
The workflow component of SharePoint Server 2013 incorporates some substantial changes from its 2010 predecessor. These changes impact on all three broad types of workflows: List Reusable and Site the effect of these changes is to render the workflow component much more powerful than was the case for previous versions of SharePoint Server. In a […]
What’s Different About Workflows in SharePoint Server 2013?
Organizations with a serious commitment to building workflows on SharePoint server will need to know how the 2013 version of this server differs from SharePoint Server 2010. One of the most important areas to explore before making a decision about whether or not it makes sense to migrate from 2010 to SharePoint Server 2013, are […]
Some Differences Between the Workflow Feature of SharePoint Server 2010 and Its SharePoint Server 2013 Counterpart
In a video tutorial titled
Building Workflows with SharePoint Server 2013
Traditionally, the options offered to SharePoint stakeholders to enable no-code approaches to process development via workflows has been a strong selling point for the platform. The tradition continues with SharePoint Server 2013. In a series of video tutorials titled SP13-304 SharePoint Designer 2013: Workflow Course, Chris Beckett, a certified SharePoint expert and published author on […]