Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Associating Custom List Actions with Workflows

When associating custom actions with a workflow, the workflow must either be set explicitly on the list or a reusable workflow must be associated with the list.

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In this section you walk through creating a basic workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010, primarily to demonstrate associating a custom LIM list action with a list workflow. For a detailed overview of creating custom workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 see Chapter 27, “Using Workflows and Creating Custom Workflows.”

In the following scenario, you create a simple workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 which copies an item from ListA to ListB, and you also create an LIM custom action which references the workflow. The workflow includes ...