Chapter 5. Office Applications as Workflow Participants

In this chapter, you'll see how you can use Office 2010 applications such as Word and Outlook in a workflow process. In Chapter 4, you associated a workflow on a list; in this chapter, you'll use the other primary SharePoint object—a document library. This site will have a document library that will contain design documents, and you will implement a workflow to automate the review process when a document is added or modified.

Creating a SharePoint Site

Create a new SharePoint site using the Blank Site template, as shown in Figure 5-1. Enter the site name as Chapter05.

Creating a blank site

Figure 5.1. Creating a blank ...

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