Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Chapter 10. Business Processes and Workflows

In this chapter:
Identifying Workflow Candidates
Overview of Out-of-the-box Workflows
Publishing Workflows
Workflow Deployment Considerations
The Other Side of the Coin: Code-free Custom Workflows
Custom Workflow Considerations
Workflow Deployment Options
Workflows and Client Applications
Security Considerations
Summary
Additional Resources

Workflows represent a series of actions and decisions within a larger process that are committed in a particular order. The more ordered a process is, the easier it is to record that process electronically in a workflow. An example is how an expense claim is managed internally between an employee and the company. An employee submits an online expense claim, which ...