From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Understanding workflow steps
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
Understanding workflow steps
So when we talk about a workflow step, a workflow step is a combination of conditions and actions that we've bundled together, or it's possible that only conditions or only actions, but it's the logical unit that makes sense. In this workflow that we're going to be creating in this course, we have some specific steps here in approval process. First, an area vice president approves, that's a step. Then it moves on to the finance vice president and all the actions related to the finance vice president and all the conditions, those are a step. And then we have an HR vice president who's approving, that's another step and then there are other steps that will follow. So the area vice president's approval, let's look at that one step. First, it begins with an action called Email. After that action has been taken, there's a second action, and that action is almost an inaction, but it's the action of waiting. Following those two actions, then, we have a condition. A condition says we will…
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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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