APPENDIX B

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SharePoint Designer’s Text-Based Workflow Editor

In Chapter 4, you created a workflow in SharePoint Designer using the Visual Designer view. We showed a brief glimpse of the Text-Based Designer view. Once you get used to the Text-Based view, you may find it to be a more efficient tool for authoring the workflow details. In this appendix, we’ll provide a basic overview of the Text-Based editor.

Creating the Workflow Editor Components

The basic building blocks of a declarative workflow are actions and conditions. Actions are the things a workflow does and conditions define the rules that determine when certain actions are performed. These ...

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