Episode 68 - John Liu

Here I speak with SharePoint MVP John Liu about workflows in SharePoint (and in Office 365). We discuss what workflows are, how to create them and what you can do with them. John gives us many examples of where workflows can be used to better automate and optimise a business.

Resources

SharePoint Designer 2013

http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=35491

 

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition (with Update 4)

http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs

 

 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/

  

@johnnliu

http://johnliu.net

 

 http://sharepoint-videos.com/video-categories/sharepoint-2013-training-courses/sp13-304-sharepoint-designer-2013-workflow-course/

 

http://www.lynda.com/search?q=workflow&f=producttypeid%3a2%094%092015%3bmeta_software_facet%3aSharePoint

http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=sharepoint%20workflow

 

Custom Activities - these can all be used on Office 365 or SP2013 OnPrem

 

Office Dev Patterns and Practices samples

https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP/tree/master/Samples/Workflow.Activities

 

Codeplex

http://sp2013workflowactivities.codeplex.com/

 

Paul Culmsee has a 12-part multi series that’s very fun to follow

http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2013/12/21/trials-or-tribulation-inside-sharepoint-2013-workflowspart-1/

 

Plumsail has a pack of custom activities that can be purchased (~$500) and more importantly, support.

http://plumsail.com/workflow-actions-pack/