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Using email aliases for easy workflow maintenance

Using email aliases for easy workflow maintenance

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Using email aliases for easy workflow maintenance

If you're new to SharePoint workflows, it might be hard to imagine the sort of volume that you'll have to maintain as you have more and more workflows running in your organization. We have one workflow, and you need to update it frequently, it's usually not that big of a deal, but when you have 12 workflows or dozens of workflows or a hundred workflows, and you need to maintain them, you have just created a full-time job. So from the very beginning I want to encourage you to do the kind of thinking about workflow creation that would make your workflows very easy to maintain, and one of those is to make sure that in areas where the business is volatile, you're not hard-coding things that you will later regret. An example of that is anyone's email address, for example, here Greg Hurion is the person who is the contact for the Payroll department. So we have just put in here email Greg to notify him we have a new employee. Same thing with Janet, hey! Send Janet an email, and then send…

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