From the course: SharePoint Designer 2013: Custom Workflows

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Modifying existing workflows

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Modifying existing workflows

Throughout this course, we've been, opening up workflows in SharePoint Designer, making some modifications and resaving and republishing them. SharePoint makes it really easy to modify workflows because it's not unusual to need to modify one, not just during development, but even after the workflow is already in production. For example, the needs of the business might change, we might decide that we're taking a new credit card that we weren't taking before, and that causes us to look at, and modify, our workflow. But it's also true that even if the needs don't change, your users' imagination of what's possible to do with the SharePoint workflow will grow, the more people are working with the workflows that you have created. So you begin by creating a workflow that solves the presenting business problem. And, we did that when we were working with the order business cards workflow. The original request was simply to do a couple of calculations, and to send a couple of emails. But then…

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