20488 - Lab hints

Module 11 - Workflows

Remind students that if they need to update their Visual Studio workflow custom activity during the lab, they must clear the SharePoint Designer cache again as described in Exercise 2, Task 1, before trying to use the workflow.

Exercise 1: Creating Custom Workflow Actions

In this exercise, you will use Visual Studio to create and deploy the workflow custom activity. You will implement the workflow logic, create the .actions4 file, and then deploy the workflow to the team site.

Exercise 2: Using a Custom Workflow in SharePoint Designer

In this exercise, you will use the custom action in SharePoint Designer and then test to confirm that it functions as expected.

Instructor Note: If students need to redeploy their Visual Studio workflow, they will need to close SharePoint Designer and clear the cache folders again before continuing to work in SharePoint Designer.

Point out to students that to save time when testing, they can remain logged on as one user; however, in the real world environment, each of the different users would complete each of the tasks. If they do remain logged on as one user, they may find that they need to refresh some of the pages for the new task to be displayed.