Developing Workflows

in

SharePoint 2013

github.com / devendrasv / pres-developing-worfkflows-in-sp2013

Overview

• Goals and Challenges
• SharePoint 2013 Workflow architecture
• Tools
• Workflows Tasks and Outcomes
• SharePoint 2013 REST API

Goals and

Challenges

• SharePoint 2010
  • On-Premises focus
  • Full Trust extensions
  • Less Scalable
• SharePoint 2013
  • Cloud and On-Premises
  • CSOM/REST
  • More Scalable

Tools

• SharePoint 2013 Designer
• Visio 2013
• Visual Studio 2013

Workflows Tasks and

Outcomes

• Pre SharePoint 2013 workflow using Task Content type

• In SharePoint 2013

  • Workflow task(SharePoint 2013)
  • outcome and workflow instance id

Type of Tasks

• Single
  • SharePoint designer 2013
    • Assign a Task
  • Visual Studio 2013
    • Single Task
• Multiple
  • SharePoint designer 2013
    • Start a task process
  • Visual Studio 2013
    • Composite task

SharePoint 2013 REST API

• Introduced with read/write support for lists in SharePoint 2010
  • http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/ListData.svc
• Dramatically expanded in SharePoint 2013 to support more than lists
• Based on OData v3.0 but contains some oddities & inconsistencies
• Code sample
  • Get Users From SharePoint Group (https://github.com/devendrasv/WorkflowSamples-GetUsersFromSharePointGroup)

Demo Time... Let's Take a Look!

Resources

• MSDN/Technet
  • Workflows in SharePoint 2013 MSDN/Technet
• Workflow Team blog
  • Workflow Team blog
• Workflow manager forum
  • Workflow manager forum
• Andrew Connell Blog
  • Andrew Connell Blog

Questions?

@sp_journey

www.sharepoint-journey.com

github.com / devendrasv / pres-developing-worfkflows-in-sp2013