Working with Workflows in SharePoint Designer

Many times you will find that the out of the box workflows are not sufficient to meet your requirements. You may need to modify the out of the box workflows or at times even create workflows from scratch. The easiest way to do this is to create or modify workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010.

By the Way

You could not modify the out of the box workflows in SharePoint 2007. In SharePoint 2010 you can modify some of the out of the box workflows.

By the Way

In SharePoint 2007 workflows created in SharePoint Designer could not be exported and reused. This is now possible in SharePoint 2010 in the form of reusable workflows.

Modifying the Out of the Box Approval Workflow

In this example you modify ...

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