Professional Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007

15.4. Testing Your Custom Action

To test your custom action, you must create these items:

• A list or document library.

• A workflow in SharePoint Designer that uses your action and is attached to the list or document library.

• A list item or document in the list or document library.

15.4.1. Creating a Custom List

Because it is easier to test using a custom list, create a custom list by opening your browser and navigating to your SharePoint site. Choose Create from the Site Actions menu. If you cannot see the Site Actions menu, log in to the site as a site owner. Once you click Create, the Create page is displayed (see Figure 15-13). Depending on your edition of SharePoint and optionally installed features, you may have more or fewer options displayed on the Create page.

Figure 15-13. Figure 15-13

Choose Custom List under the Custom Lists column. On the New page, enter WorkflowTestList as the name of the list, keep the default values for the other controls, and then click Create. The All Items page is displayed.

To test your custom action, you will need to create a column for each property on the custom action. To create a new column, select Create Column from the Settings menu, and the Create Column page will be displayed (Figure 15-14). Create the five columns in the following table, using the values provided:

Column Name	Type
SiteUrl	Single line of text.
SiteTitle	Single line of text. ...