SharePoint Workflows streamline common project management tasks by automating the movement of documents or items through a sequence of actions that relate to your business process. These sequences can cater for project approval, document review, and many more processes, reducing the time spent on administrative tasks by your team. Workflows support existing human work processes

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Using SharePoint Workflows for Team Collaboration

Every organization who has implemented SharePoint must have used workflows to automate their business process. Microsoft provides various options for creating workflows, here we will check SharePoint Designer Workflow vs Microsoft Flow. There are different ways to create workflows in SharePoint like: Using Out of box workflow Using SharePoint designer workflow 2013 Using Visual Studio

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SharePoint Designer Workflow vs Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow has always struck me as having the potential to be the most powerful and useful component of the Office 365 suite, but has always come up just short with the functionality I’ve required.  The post below outlines a custom flow I’ve recently created.  Hopefully this is the first step of moving away from

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How to set a document retention policy with Microsoft Flow in SharePoint Online

In this episode, Laura Rogers will teach how to create a workflow that is connected to a content type, and can go with the content type wherever it is used in SharePoint. You’ll learn about SharePoint 2010 versus 2013 workflows, and association columns as well. [00:00:00] Hello everyone and welcome. Just a real quick introduction…

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How to create Workflow connected to a SharePoint Content Type (and much more)

Laura demonstrates how to use the call web service action in SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows. [00:00:01] Hello, welcome everyone. I’m Laura Rogers and this is SharePoint Power Hour, my weekly show where I talk about a lot of different SharePoint topics every Wednesday at 11:00 central. We go over 100 different things we’ve been doing

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How to use the ‘Call Web Service’ Action in a SharePoint Workflow

In this post, Jasjit Chopra shows you how to go from simple type form data to a secured SharePoint list in less than 20 minutes! Imagine you have a form hosted on an internet site (perhaps a registration form) that’s completely separate to SharePoint. Here’s the scenario: – The people who you want to fill

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How to post data to a SharePoint List using an external form with TypeForm and Microsoft Flow

In this demonstration using SharePoint Designer Laura illustrates some of the more detailed elements of SharePoint workflow during several stages of her scenario. She uses an Assign Task workflow and describes the task options that are available and which are the best choices (and why) for her scenario. The workflow functions used include: calculations and

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How to Create a More Complex Workflow using SharePoint Designer