From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action

Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action

One of the actions that you're going to use the most is the email action, because you'll want to notify people all the time of steps in the workflow that something is ready for them to work with. So we're going to create a very simple workflow in our Shared Documents Library that only does one thing, when there is a new item that has been saved to the library, we are going to send an email to the person whose job it is to monitor the library's contents. Now in a SharePoint they could easily set an alert for this, but that wouldn't help us learn how to use the email action item. So we are going to dive in and create this one-stop workflow and learn how to create email messages using this action in SharePoint. I want to remind you that we are going to work with the Shared Documents Library, there are no documents in it yet, it's a very basic library like you're used to in very single SharePoint site that you work with. And here we are in SharePoint Designer. We've already started it up,…

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