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SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

with Gini Courter

 


See how to boost your productivity and efficiency using self-monitoring document workflows in SharePoint. Author Gini Courter explains how to design streamlined workflows, from analyzing inefficiencies in manual processes to leveraging automation to avoid performing tedious, repetitive tasks. The course also covers setting up forms and email notifications, collecting and working with user data, performing calculations, and making workflows reusable.
Topics include:
  • Understanding workflows
  • Documenting workflows with Excel, Visio, and the Office Drawing Tools
  • Running the built-in workflows in SharePoint
  • Understanding actions and conditions
  • Working with if-then and if-then-else conditions
  • Managing workflow messages with Outlook rules
  • Pausing and stopping workflows with core actions
  • Maintaining workflows with email aliases, workflow logs, and error traps
  • Creating custom content types
  • Creating a site workflow
  • Exporting and publishing workflows

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author
Gini Courter
subject
Business, Collaboration, Office Suites
software
SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010
level
Intermediate
duration
4h 44m
released
Aug 09, 2012

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Gini Courter

Gini Courter

Gini Courter has been providing computer classes and seminars on Microsoft Office and related products for more than 20 years at public and private companies, state and federal agencies, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations, and has consulted and trained on the use of MicrosoftSharePoint since the first SharePoint product was launched in 2001. A founder and managing partner of TRIAD Consulting, Gini is also the author of 29 books, including Beginning SharePoint with Excel, and a number of lynda.com movies on SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, and other software titles. Gini's passion is helping clients use SharePoint and Microsoft Office applications to create solutions that increase efficiency and collaboration while improving the quality of people's work lives. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan with an M.B.A. from Oakland University. You can find her on Twitter @Gini4Tips.
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