Cant create WorkFlow

I have a document library in MOSS 2007. Have created a WF and that starts "autmatically when new item created" In the document library I have created couple of column those are mandatory (required columns) and user has to fill those column while uploading a document as well creating a document from library. WF has ran and completed succefully  when I use "upload" option to load a document.  As you are aware, when we "upload" a document, we will have to fill all "required columns" and the click "check in" command button.  After I do all this, document get loaded and WD ran succesfully. However, the WF is not running when I create a document (.docx) from this library (using "new" button) !!.  I have filled all required field in the document information panel . After save & exit from WORD application, I can see WF status as "starting". But, it never started and completed.  So I did following and found WF worked !! a) After creating document (.docx) using "new" option I found WF status "starting"!. So,  I did "Check-out and Check-in" manually from document library. After doing this,  WF ran and status has been changed as "completed" b) In SPD, I change workflow start option from "Automatic" to "Manually start".&nb

Hello, I have an ETL process. The frist step is downloading file(s) from an FTP server. I want to use workflow to acheive this process. Do I stated by creating a customerd Activity called FTPDownloadActivity to inherit Native Activity, then use in the designer?

Hi, I created a state machine workflow in share point 2007 with default associated task list. This is working fine. Now I want to add a custom content type to task in which I want to show 3 fields on task form : Title, Description, status And also I want to set some default values in these fields. How can I create and add this custom content type in state machine workflow ? G. Goyal

hi, this is my senario: i have created a custom list in the "absence and vacation schedule" site template. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=56406562-01F9-4A18-9924-2DC0684232C8&displaylang=en   in the custom list i created i store the ID of all the approvers and the ID of all the users that can fill a request form. now i wanted to create a workflow between the custom list i created and the absence list that was already created. in the submit new absence form i added a field named user id. now what i want to do is that when a user fill in a form the workflow must compare the user his id in absence list with the user his id in the custom list i created and see witch approver is connected to that user id so it can send the request form only for that approver. i hope i was clear enough thnx

Hi Experts: Here is my situation: I have a MOSS 2007 server with list A (regular sharepoint list) and List B (InfoPath form library with a published form) This is what I am trying to accomplish using SharePoint Designer: List A is just a basic list User changes a column in list A to a specific value A new form needs to be added to the forms library B SharePoint designer Workflow will not create a valid xml file in the List B forms library. It just creates an invalid file based on the .xsn file template. Does anyone have any experience creating a valid xml form in a forms library using SharePoint Designer workflow? I can't migrate to 2010 so that is not an option. Thanks for all your advise.

Hi, I want to create custom task form in state machine workflow. How can I create & install?  G. Goyal

Hi All, Could someone help me? I am newbie to sharepoint and workflow. I want to write a work flow library to send email to user bi annually. I have tried and not successful. My workflow doesn't applied to existing documents and it doesn't send mail to existing document owner and it stopped sending mail after one or two times. I am using sharepoint designer 2007. Here are work flow steps 1)      Workflow need to start automatically when attach to DL 2)      If there are some documents already in DL, this WF needs to be applied to all existing documents. 3)      When workflow starts, it will send email to document owner to review their existing documents or new document loaded 4)      Send reminder after one week if document owner doesn't review their document 5)      If user doesn't review the document (check out, check in) after 2 week, it will automatically check out and check in with document owner account 6)      After 6 months from that time, workflow will send email again to document owner to review 7)      Step 3 to 6 will loop.   Any suggestion? I am looking forward any help.   Thanks.Best Regards

Hi All, Any ideas how I could configure SharePoint 2010 to trigger a workflow for a site member that notifies them to perform  a specific task ? I have a timesheet template that I intend to create a content type from. the use case is that each site member needs to fill out a timesheet at the start of the week to indicate what work they will be doing for the week. Is it possible ( using customisation ) to create a workflow so that a site member is prompted to create a new timesheet at the start of everyweek ? Alternatively can a recurrent task be created instead ? i.e. on the monday of every week create a new task for each site member to "create new weekly timesheet" Thanks and regards, Counie  

Are there any samples that would show how to create and/or modify a workflow programmatically, i.e. from a program, not from VS.NET IDE or a hosted designer? For example, the program would create a new workflow, add a couple of activities to it, and save the serialized workflow definition (in a file or database). I can find examples explaining how to modify a workflow instance at run time, but I need to create a workflow definition, not the instance. Any hints? Thanks.Alek

Anyone any ideas as to how I can configure SharePoint to create a discussion item using the title of a list item. e.g. user creates list item on a custom list - SP automatically creates a Discussion thread for this list item in the discussions list. I'm guessing this can't be down OOTB . would I be looking at SPD or a coded solution ? regards, Counie

within my document library i have placed some folders. the foldernames are the names of my technical users. when i place a document in one of those folders i want to send a email to the specific user. i think the workflow that you make is ownly assigned to the document library.   how can my workflow see, in witch folder i added  a new document and send a mail to this user? can i check this by a if statement, if yes how excactly.

Hi all, I have my sharepoint server in United States. I working in Europe. I want to use Visual Studio 2008 in my PC to create workflows in the remote server, but when I try to create a Sharepoint 2007 Sequential Workflow Project in VS2008 it gives me an error saying that I don't have Sharepoint installed in my PC. Is not possible to create workflows in a remote server? I need to have local Sharepoint? Daniel 

I use infopath 2007 created a task edit form and I use VS 2010 to create a sequential workflow.I want to use the custom tash edit form in the workflow.The problem I got is the InfoPath form doesn't get deployed to sharepoint. I'm able to upload the infopath form to sharepoint though central admin app. here is the element.xml :<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  <Workflow     Name="WorkflowProject4 - Workflow1"     Description="My SharePoint Workflow"     Id="e6aa6cdb-667f-456a-b216-7639a1dcd3c7"     CodeBesideClass="WorkflowProject4.Workflow1.Workflow1"     CodeBesideAssembly="$assemblyname$">    <Categories/>    <MetaData>      <AssociationCategories>List</AssociationCategories>            <Task0_FormURN>urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:TaskForm:-myXSD-2009-12-10T22-33-23</Task0_FormURN>      <StatusPageUrl>_layouts/WrkStat.aspx</StatusPageUrl>    </MetaData>  </Workflow></Elements>and here is the feature1.template.xml<Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  <Properties>    <Property Key="GloballyAvailable" Value="true" />    <Property Key="RegisterForms" Value="*.xsn"/>  </Properties></Feature>anything