From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Copying and deleting list items
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
Copying and deleting list items
We have got a basic Announcements List here. And we have 20, 30, 40 announcements in it, we want to get rid of them, but we don't want to delete them. We don't want them gone, we just want them elsewhere. So we really want an announcements archive, and to have the ability for someone to go in and to say I'd like to move this item from one location to another. So we created another announcements list that's simply called Old Announcements. And now we're going to add a workflow to the Announcements List to allow a user to move an item to the Old Announcements List. Let's go to SharePoint Designer, click Workflows, and add a List Workflow to the Announcements List. And this is going to be Move to Archive. Move the current item to the Old Announcements Archive. You might think, why can't we just drag and drop? And the reason is drag and drop is turned off for many folks. And it's difficult to just move things between libraries, so let's see how we are going to do this here. This is…