From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Modifying existing workflows

Modifying existing workflows

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Modifying existing workflows

SharePoint makes it really easy to modify workflows, because it's not unusual to need to modify one. For example, the needs of the business might change, and that would generate a request for a change, but it's also true that the imagination of what's possible in workflows grows the longer folks are using SharePoint Workflows that you create. So throughout this course we've been opening up workflows, making some modifications, and re-saving and republishing them, and remember that each time we do that, every time we publish a new workflow, which is when we re-associate it with the List or Library that it was created for, each time we do that a new version of that workflow is created. Any instances of the workflow that were previously created with items in the List or Library continue with the version that they were already using. And any new items that are created, any new instances of the workflow are created using the newly-published, newly-modified workflow. So all of that works…

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