Chapter 12. Advanced Workflows
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER
Generating workflow designs using Visio Premium 2010
Visualize a running workflow using Visio Graphics Services
Modifying Workflow Forms using InfoPath 2010
Working with Globally Reusable Workflows
Exporting Reusable Workflows
Chapter 11 laid out the fundamentals of SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows. Building on that knowledge, this chapter shows how SharePoint Designer 2010 integrates with Visio 2010 and InfoPath 2010 to provide a complete solution to model the workflows and design dynamic user interfaces.
The last part of this chapter dives into strategies of packaging and deploying reusable workflows and shows how you can scale out your workflows to be used throughout your company.
MODELING WORKFLOWS USING VISIO 2010
The Microsoft Visio application has served a great role in the past, helping to visualize complex information such as network diagrams, maps, and floor plans. Now, the same functionality comes to SharePoint 2010. The designer surface for Visio 2010 can be used to model and visualize your workflows
A business or process analyst who understands business processes would be the ideal candidate for using this functionality. The analyst might prefer to use this method to sketch out the model of the workflow and then hand it to an IT professional or an owner of a SharePoint site to automate the processes in SharePoint. On the flip side, when an IT professional or site owner receives a workflow created in Visio, the ...
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