Install and configure SharePoint Workflow

• Overview of workflows in SharePoint 2013
• Install and configure the Workflow Manager
• Configuring Workflow Manager for use with SharePoint Server 20,131
• Test whether SharePoint Workflow 2013 is installed and configured correctly
• Summary

Overview of workflows in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013, Workflow (established in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5) and WCF hosted in Workflow Manager, Workflow Manager provides management of workflow definitions, It also hosts the execution process of the workflow instance and is the new workflow engine. In order to listen to SharePoint events for workflows, such as itemcreated, ItemUpdated, the platform is routed to Workflow by using Windows Azure Service Bus, which is coordinated by OAuth. Manager. For backhaul, use the SharePoint REST API to fall back to SharePoint. (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/jj163181.aspx for details) to demonstrate the high-level architecture of the workflow infrastructure:

As can be seen, the workflow execution engine workflow Manger has been detached from SharePoint (in Windows Azure, that is, Windows Azure is the new execution host, and SharePoint 2010 is completely different) and runs independently, This also provides flexibility and scalability.

Back to top install and configure the Workflow Manager

The SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform requires workflow manger to be installed separately and then configured to work with the SharePoint Server 2013 farm. However, because there are not so many servers, the SharePoint Server and Workflow Manager 1.0 installations are configured on the same server.

• First, open the Web Platrom Installer, search for Workflow Manger 1.0, such as:

• Next, select Install as shown in:

• After successful installation, then configure Workflow Manger, it is recommended to choose the default, so that the operation to create a new farm, only need to do this on the first computer of the farm, after the farm has been created, you can use the "join the farm" operation to add more computers to the farm. As shown in the following:

• When you create a new farm configuration, you need to configure service account and certificates, as shown in:

• Click Next and it will take about 10 minutes for the configuration to succeed, as shown in:

• Finally, enter IIS to check if the workflow Management site application was successfully created (containing two specific ports, 12290, 12291) as shown in:

Back to top configure Workflow Manager for use with SharePoint Server 20,131

As mentioned earlier, I installed Workflow Manager 1.0 on the same SharePoint Server 2013 server and communicated through HTTP, so I ran the following PowerShell to register:

Back to top test whether SharePoint Workflow 2013 is installed and configured correctly

• Open the site with SharePoint Designer, create a workflow, and select SharePoint 2013 workflows as follows:

• Insert the workflow history activity, and then record the following information:

• Next, set the workflow to start automatically when the project is created in the workflow settings, as follows:

• Then, save the workflow, and then publish as shown in the following:

• Finally enter website, select the list to be associated with the workflow to test (do not log on to the system account), the details are as follows:

• Click the Enter stage to view the workflow details, as shown below to demonstrate that the workflow started successfully and that the record is in the workflow history.

Back to the top of the summary

This article is primarily about the configuration of SharePoint workflow, and the next one explores the specific application of SharePoint workflow in a specific case.

Reprint (original address): http://www.cnblogs.com/OceanEyes/archive/2014/01/23/3531457.html

Install and configure SharePoint Workflow