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New Conditions and Actions for SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows 

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With the onset of SharePoint Designer 2010, there are quite a few new out of box actions and conditions that can be leveraged in SharePoint Designer workflows. Check the list below to see what's new:

 

Out of Box Actions List for SharePoint Designer 2010:

 

Highlighted Actions are New for 2010

 

APPROVAL ACTIONS

Assign Item For Approval

You can start a new Approval workflow instance on this item, or a new/different.

Assign Item For Feedback

You can start a new Feedback workflow instance on this item, or a new/different.

General Task Process

Seems to do the same thing as Assign Item For Approval

CORE ACTIONS

Add a comment

Similar to "Log to History List"

Add Time to Date

 

Do Calculation

 

Log to History List

 

Pause for Duration

 

Pause until Date

 

Send an Email

 

Set Time Portion of Date/Time Field

 

Set Workflow Status

You can use this action to set a custom workflow status – AKA, instead of showing only "In Progress", "Complete", or "Error Occurred", you could specify a value that would better communicate the workflow's state.

Set Workflow Variable

 

Stop Workflow

 

LIST ACTIONS

Add List Item Permissions

This action gives you the ability to assign item level security permissions to the item

Check In Item

 

Check Out Item

 

Copy List Item

 

Create List Item

 

Declare Record

Used to declare an item/document as a record for Records management (may thereafter perform some archiving/routing action on the document)

Delete Item

 

Discard Check Out Item

 

Inherit List Item Parent Permissions

With this action you can set the permissions to inherit from its parent list or folder (first unique ancestor)

Remove List Item Permissions

This action clears all permissions set on this list item – no access for non-site collection admins

Replace List Item Permissions

This action deletes all the permissions on the item (or breaks inheritance) and assigned NEW permissions to that object.

Set Content Approval Status

 

Set Field in Current Item

 

Undeclare Record

See note on "Declare Record"

Update List Item

 

Wait for Field Change in Current Item

 

RELATIONAL ACTIONS

Lookup Manager of a User

This action will look at a user's profile and return that user's manager from within their profile

TASK ACTIONS

Assign a Form to a Group

 

Assign a To-do Item

 

Collect Data from a User

 

Utility Actions

Extract Substring from End of String

Replacing "Build Dynamic String" from SPD 07

Extract Substring form Index of String

Replacing "Build Dynamic String" from SPD 07

Extract Substring form Start of String

Replacing "Build Dynamic String" from SPD 07

Extract Substring of String from Index with Length

Replacing "Build Dynamic String" from SPD 07

Find Interval Between Dates

 

 

 

Out of Box Conditions List for SharePoint Designer 2010

 

Highlighted Conditions are New for 2010

 

COMMON CONDITIONS

If any values equals value

Replaces compare any data source

If current item field equals value

Replaces compare any data source, but with current item preselected.

OTHER CONDITIONS

Check exact list item permissions

If specified users have EXACTLY these permissions (additional permissions NOT ok)

Check list item permissions

If specified users have these permissions (additional permissions ok)

Created by a specific person

 

Created in a specific date span

 

Modified by a specific person

 

Modified in a specific date span

 

Person is a valid SharePoint user

Is not anonymous?

Title field contains keywords

Parse title of item for sub string(s)

 
Posted by BENDER\pwicklund on 26-Oct-09
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