Thursday, July 18, 2013

Share Point 2013 Workflows


Are you looking to set up a SharePoint-friendly website? Well, we would say building a SharePoint website can help in a number of ways:

  • The structure and site navigation can be easily altered by the admin. This comes in handy when a user wants to add a new course or an event to his/her website
  • Helps save money on website hosting
  • Even a newbie, with no technical knowledge, can easily make changes in his/her SharePoint website

SharePoint workflow makes your tasks much simpler by allowing you to design workflows without writing custom codes for your applications. Examples of creating workflows can range from creating tasks such as sending notifications to reviewing a document, reviewing and approving it, and more.

The latest version, SharePoint 2013 workflows brings in newly improved features, which are much more beneficial and advanced than its sister versions. The workflow engine is one of the most notable changes. SharePoint 2010 was using Windows Workflow Foundation 3.5 whereas SharePoint 2013 uses an improved Windows Azure Workflow. The other added enhancements include:
  • Easy tracing and monitoring
  • Instance management
  • Organized service reliability
  • Completely Declarative Authoring
  • Elastic Scale
  • Service Bus Messaging and REST
  • Multi-Tenancy and High density

The other major improvements in SharePoint Designer 2013 include some amazing features that can help you build your workflows much easier. They are:

  • Newly added visual development tools
  • The ability to create/add applications without writing custom codes
  • Additional building blocks such as App Step, Stage, and Loop

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