SharePoint 2007 Workflows - Things to Consider Before You Start

Everything was working great until the last few days when I made the SP site more robust. I am now ready to create a custom New Form so that my "requestor" doesn't have to deal with all of the fields. I want to create a custom Edit List so that I can hide all of the flags that get tripped while completing workflows. This morning I tried to create the NewForm (as I have done in the past) but nothing loads. I tried creating it with a different list, and it loaded fine so I know it has something to do with my list. I tried executing workflows so that I might be able to narrow down the problem, but now no workflows work even though they did a couple of days ago.

One of the items added as a "pause until" workflow. I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. I also have roughly 85 fields. I haven't seen anywhere on the blogs that the number of fields is an issue but you never know.

Can anyone help? Please?

Hi,

I have created a designer workflow for sending the mail to goup of people when a new file is uploaded in document library.

Mail was not sent to the group but the workflow status is showing as completed.

Under workflow history it is showing Event type--Error

    User ID---System Account

Description--The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the outgoing e-mail settings for the server are configured correctly

Prevously the mail was delivered successfully to the same group but now it is showing the above error.

Help me in this.

i want to create sharepoint 2007 workflow with E-mail notificationin sharepoint Designer . please let me know how to do it in OOB workflow. if not possible please let me know how to do it sharepointdesigner workflow2007

my Workflow Scenario is :

Step-1 employer send document for approval to manager .

step-2 When manager will approve or reject . status will send to the emloyer through mail.

step-3 when manager will approve than document is going for approval by main manager.

step-4 if approve or reject status will send it to employer and manager.

thanks

swapna

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Hi All,

      I have requiremnt to enable Mixed mode ( Windows & Forms Based) authentication on Single web application( with out extending). I have done it in Sharepoint server 2010, It is so simple also. But my requirement is on Moss 2007. I have found some Post and gone through Those posts, in those posts, all are suggesting to extend the default webapllication and enabling forms authentication on extending/Default application another one is on Wondows authentication.

  Is it way to suggest the client or any other alternative to enable the mixed mode authentication?

please suggest me with right solution. Thank you in advance.

Thanks & regards,

Naresh Kapa.

I'm currently busy with an overview of Best Practices for developing accessible web sites in SharePoint 2007. After a little research I have noticed that the challenges I have faced so far are mostly XHTML/CSS/JS related and there are actually very few SharePoint 2007 specific issues: this has to do with the fact that we use very little to none of standard SharePoint controls in the Internet facing web sites we deliver.

 

As I would like to share the Best Practices I'm writing with the community I've been wondering whether you have tried to develop an accessible web site in SharePoint 2007 yourself and faced any challenges you would like to share. To make myself clear I'm looking for issues and challenges and not solutions in particular (these are welcome as well by the way).