Moss workflow (1)

Workflows help users collaborate on documents and information.Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007The documents and projects on the website implement business processes to manage project tasks. Workflows can help enterprises follow consistent business processes and improve their work efficiency and production efficiency by managing the tasks and steps involved in business processes. In this way, those who execute these tasks can focus on executing Work tasks rather than managing workflows.

What is a workflow?

A workflow is sometimes interpreted as a series of tasks that can produce certain results. InMicrosoft SharePointIn the product and technical environment,The definition of a workflow is more specific, that is, automatic transfer of documents or projects according to the operation and task sequence associated with the business process. Use Workflow,Enterprises can add business logicSharePointList or document or project in the library to manage common business processes in the enterprise. Business logic is a set of instructions that can specify and control operations performed on documents or projects.

By managing and tracking the human tasks involved in common business processes (such as project approval or document review), workflows can reduce the cost and time required to coordinate these processes. For exampleOffice Sharepoint Server 2007On the website, you can add workflows to the document library so that documents can be sent to a group of people for approval. When the document creator starts the workflow for the document in the library, the workflow creates a document approval task and assigns it to the workflow participant, then, send an email notification with a task description and a link to the document to be reviewed to these participants. During workflow execution, the workflow owner or workflow participant can check the "workflow status" to see which participants have completed their workflow tasks. After a workflow participant completes a workflow task, the workflow ends and the workflow owner workflow is automatically notified that the workflow has been completed.

SharePoint 2003 does not support workflows, while Moss 2007 provides powerful support for workflows. In Moss 2007, workflow customization can be implemented through the following three methods (all based on WF, so. Net freamwork 3.0 is required): 1. Moss The website contains multiple workflows that can meet the requirements of common business solutions. For exampleApproval workflow,Collect feedback workflow,Sign Collection workflow,Process approval workflow,Chinese electronic approval process, Translation management workflow 2. Web Designers can use Web DesignProgram(For example Microsoft Office Sharepoint designer 2007 ) No DesignCodeWorkflow for a specific list or library. These workflows are The Web Designers can deploy these workflows directly to the list or library that will use them. However, the custom workflows here are all one-way, that is, the process is only irreversible. Professional Software developers can use Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Create a workflow. These workflows contain custom code and workflow activities, After a professional developer creates a custom workflow, the server administrator can deploy these workflows on multiple websites. The following describes how to implement a custom workflow in Moss 2007: 1. create a workflow2. modify configuration file in Vs, such as web. config and WSS. actions3. create a workflow in SharePoint designer and associate it with the workflow developed in vs. 4. finally, you only need to start the workflow-related configuration on the moss site to run the developed workflow.