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Sharepoint Foundation: Edit Three-State Workflow

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Hi, can one edit the out of the box Three-State workflow through Sharepoint Designer?
We are using Sharepoint Foundation and the Three-State workflow doesn't appear under Workflows in Designer, although it is available as a template in Foundation.

I would like to see how that workflow was created to help me in creating my own custom workflows.

I created a New Task List and managed to get the WF to create a task after an Event was created in a Calendar. But I am not sure how to create a second Task after the 1st was completed.

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