Office 2010 Workflow: Developing Collaborative Solutions

Chapter 7. Creating Reusable and Site Workflows

To round out this section on using the SharePoint Designer, you'll create two more workflows. First, you will create a reusable workflow that can be associated to multiple lists or document libraries. Finally, you'll create a site workflow that is not associated with any list but is invoked at the site level.

Reusable Workflows

You have already used reusable workflows that are provided out of the box such as the Three-state workflow. These are referred to as a globally reusable workflow since they are available on all sites. You can also create your own reusable workflow that, once published to a site, can be associated to multiple lists and document libraries.

When you create a reusable workflow, the ...