Creating Workflows in Visio 2010

In this section, you create a basic document approval workflow. The workflow is going to act as the shell for subsequent workflows addressed in this chapter and is going to be used for document approval. The workflow looks up the manager of a user and makes the manager the approver of our document.

The following example will take you through creating a workflow in Visio 2010:

Note

Visio 2010 Premium edition must be installed on the client when creating SharePoint workflows. It includes all of the necessary SharePoint workflow templates.

1. Open Visio 2010 and from the template screen select Flowchart from the Template Categories section. Choose Microsoft SharePoint Workflow and then click Create.

2. Start ...

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