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Assigning association columns to a reusable workflow

Assigning association columns to a reusable workflow

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Assigning association columns to a reusable workflow

The Reusable Workflow we just created only uses a couple of columns that are available everywhere. They're available anytime you have a new document, or a new item. But often you'll want to create a workflow that actually needs to store some information in a column, and you want to make sure that that column appears in the list, or in the library, that you're attaching this workflow to. So, two ways you can think about doing this. One way is to create a Content Type. That's a group of columns together that underlie a particular list or many lists. For example, there's a group of columns under the Content Type for Contact, and if we go take a look at that you'll see many familiar columns that you're used to seeing in contact lists. So every contact list that's built using the Contact List Content Type has all of these columns in it. So that's one possibility. Another possibility though is that you don't necessarily need to have a whole lot of columns and the columns that you need don't…

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