From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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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Understanding SharePoint workflows2m
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Understanding events that start workflows2m 23s
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Understanding workflow steps2m 19s
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Understanding workflow actions3m 13s
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Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action7m 45s
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Setting task and history log settings3m 40s
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Creating a workflow using the Wait for Field Change action8m 54s
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Using conditions to make a choice3m 50s
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Using advanced conditions: IF, THEN, and ELSE3m 53s
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Creating a workflow with conditions5m 16s
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Using parallel blocks3m 41s
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