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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Atlanta!

Body: On June 8, 2013, SharePoint Saturday will be held in Atlanta at Georgia State University. I’m really looking forward to it! My session will be: InfoPath and SharePoint Designer Workflows Together In your organization, forms are everywhere. InfoPath...

Published Wed, May 05 2013 9:41 AM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: conference, InfoPath, workflows, sharepoint, SPSATL

9 Minute Video: SharePoint 2013 Workflow

Body: Last week I recorded a new video all about the task process designer in the new SharePoint 2013 (preview) workflows. This 9 minute video also demonstrates a bit of how to get around in the interface, and the new Visual Designer. Technorati Tags...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2012 1:46 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: workflows, sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, visual designer

SPTechCon Boston 2012 in July!

Body: The upcoming SharePoint Technology conference is July 22-25 in Boston, and I’m very excited because I’ll be doing three brand new sessions this time! Jennifer Mason and I will be doing the full day workshop which we’ve presented before, but all...

Published Thu, May 05 2012 12:37 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: conference, InfoPath, workflows, SSRS, sharepoint, SPTechCon, SQL Server Reporting Services

Creating a Workflow Initiation Form for Approvals

Body: In SharePoint Designer workflows that are manually started, the initiation form is the page that has the “Start” button to kick off the workflow. In this 11 minute video, I show how to create an approval workflow that can be manually triggered....

Published Wed, May 05 2012 12:22 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: InfoPath, workflows, sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, initiation form, approvals, Office 365 Grid; workflows; InfoPath

SharePoint Designer - Restore Previous Workflow Version

Body: Have you ever published changes in a workflow in SharePoint Designer and wish you hadn't? There is a little known way to go in and restore a previous version of your workflow. This uses the same versioning capability that lists and libraries...

Published Wed, May 05 2012 8:40 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: workflows, sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, versioning, Office 365 Grid; workflows, Office 365

Control Formatting of SharePoint Announcements

Body: We like to give people the freedom to add content to SharePoint as they wish in most cases, and we like them to be able to add announcements on their site whenever they need to. Do you ever cringe when you look at a SharePoint site, because of some...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2012 10:58 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: Web Parts, workflows, sharepoint, Foundation, publishing, announcements

Submit Form to a Secure Location

Body: Forms and security. It is a common requirement to have a form that can be filled out, and when it is submitted, it goes to a location that the form submitter does not have access to. This is tricky because the users need to have contribute access...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2012 11:06 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: InfoPath, workflows, sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, forms, Office 365 Grid; InfoPath, Office 365, security

Workflow–How to Set Task Fields

Title: Workflow–How to Set Task Fields Body: When assigning tasks in SharePoint workflows, you may have noticed that each task that gets assigned has one field that associates it with the original list or library item where the workflow task... Category...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2011 2:03 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura

Filed under: workflows

Get Notified of Workflow Errors

Title: Get Notified of Workflow Errors Body: This post applies to SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, and even SharePoint Online in Office 365. There is a way in SharePoint to create alerts based on filtered views, Category: workflows # Comments: 0 Attachments...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2011 10:11 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura

Filed under: workflows

The SharePoint 2010 Task Process Designer

Title: The SharePoint 2010 Task Process Designer Body: Back in January, I wrote an article for SPTechWeb, about the new task process designer in SharePoint 2010 workflows. Here’s a quick link to it, so that you and I can find it easier later. Category...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2011 4:30 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura

Filed under: workflows

SharePoint Workflow History Issue

Title: SharePoint Workflow History Issue Body: As you may know, in SharePoint there is a built in “Workflow History” list that exists on each site where you use workflows, and the workflow information for all workflows automatically gets written... Category...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 9:17 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura

Filed under: workflows

Click to Copy List Item to New

Title: Click to Copy List Item to New Body: Often times, you have a SharePoint list item with all of the fields filled in, and want to simply copy that item to create a new one. One way to go about it would be to put all of the columns in a... Category...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2011 12:23 AM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura

Filed under: workflows

Heading Home… for SharePoint Saturday New Orleans

Body: Yes, it’s that time of year again. No, not just Mardi Gras. It’s time for SharePoint Saturday in New Orleans. I grew up in that area, so it’s always a lot of fun to visit, see relatives, etc. I miss those Cajun accents, they remind me of my childhood...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 3:03 AM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: conference, workflows, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath 2010, approval process, New Orleans, SharePoint Saturday

Workflow Due Date as Next Business Day

Body: In a recent workflow, I was challenged with making sure that when tasks get assigned, they are never due on a weekend or holiday. The following is the solution that I came up with. It entails creating a lookup list of every day of the year. This...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 8:01 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: workflows, workflow, SharePoint 2010, task process, task due date

SPTechCon in San Francisco 2/7–2-9/2011

Body: It’s almost time for the SharePoint Technology conference again! This time it’s in San Francisco: I’ll be presenting the following sessions at this conference, and will be looking forward to seeing you there! I’ll also be working in the SharePoint911...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 9:57 PM by Laura Rogers @WonderLaura: Posts

Filed under: conference, Web Parts, workflows, SharePoint 2010, SPTechCon, San Francisco

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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Atlanta!

9 Minute Video: SharePoint 2013 Workflow

SPTechCon Boston 2012 in July!

Creating a Workflow Initiation Form for Approvals

SharePoint Designer - Restore Previous Workflow Version

Control Formatting of SharePoint Announcements

Submit Form to a Secure Location

Workflow–How to Set Task Fields

Get Notified of Workflow Errors

The SharePoint 2010 Task Process Designer

SharePoint Workflow History Issue

Click to Copy List Item to New

Heading Home… for SharePoint Saturday New Orleans

Workflow Due Date as Next Business Day

SPTechCon in San Francisco 2/7–2-9/2011