Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Bible

20.4. Working with Workflow Actions

The list of actions available in Workflow Designer's Workflow Action dialog box by default is a set of predefined activities that are installed with SharePoint on a Web server. Workflow Designer simply provides an interface that helps designers write XAML files. The workflow actions have been designed by keeping in mind the most common operations that designers want to perform on SharePoint list or library items.

Using these workflow actions, you can perform a range of operations, such as creating, copying, and deleting list items; check-in/check-out; discard check-out of list items, perform calculations, send e-mail, perform data-related calculations; delay, pause, or stop workflows; etc. Table 20.1 lists the workflow actions available in Workflow Designer.

Table 20.1. Workflow Designer's Workflow Actions

Workflow Action	Description of the Action	Functionality Offered to Workflow
Add Time to Date	Add 0 minutes to date (Output to Variable: date)	Allows you to add a specific amount of time in minutes, hours, days, etc., to a date and then store it in a workflow variable
Assign a Form to a Group	Assign a custom form to these users	Allows you to create a special task with custom fields for user input and then assign it to a specific user. The user can fill out the fields in the task and submit it.
Assign a To-do Item	Assign a to-do item to these users	Assigns a task to the specified user
Build Dynamic String	Store dynamic string in Variable: variable	Provides ...