Professional Workflow in Sharepoint 2010: Real World Business Workflow Solutions

by Paul J. Galvin, Udayakumar Ethirajulu, Chris Beckett

SharePoint MVPs offer practical WF4 guidance for SharePoint 2010 developersWith the new Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) toolkit in SharePoint 2010, companies have new ways to build custom solutions for common or frequent business processes. This unique book is packed with instructions and tips that show you how. You'll use WF4 to create and implement office-practical apps such as expense report approvals, RFPs, sale pipeline management, and more. The book also covers how to design custom activities with SharePoint Designer 2010.Explains how to build business solutions using the Workflow Foundation 4 toolkit in SharePoint 2010Shows even non-IT readers how to create and implement processes such as sales pipeline management, creating and managing RFPs, setting up a conference room scheduling solution across a multi-national company, and moreExplores the basics vital to all process design: system analysis, researching requirements, and basic design considerationsIncludes a SharePoint 2007 template for Training and Scheduling; the book walks you through how to upgrade that to 2010 and extend it with new features

Create the processes your business needs with SharePoint 2010's new Workflow 4 and this practical guide.

384 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 13, 2010

Reviews

[Cori Plucer · Rating 1 out of 5]

What I expected was a guide to SharePoint workflows with easy-to-follow examples. What I found was the illusion of easy-to-follow examples, but the first practical hands-on example was so riddled with typos, missing instructions, and errors, I was unable to successfully create the intended workflow. At this point, I am unlikely to continue with the book, and would never recommend this as a learning tool.

While the accompanying website wrox.com does have a section dedicated to the book's errata, I feel it is beyond my responsibilities as a reader to have to navigate through these to try and make sense of Chapter Three's detailed technical implementation (or the first lab, in simpler terms). Obviously all books of a technical nature are subject to the odd typo or error, and I can be forgiving in these instances. However, as the authors indicate that the workflows generated by following these pages will be utilized in later labs, I feel justified in expecting that more careful attention should have been paid to the numerous documented errors between pages 42-46, which make this chapter virtually incomprehensible.

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