SharePoint Designer Help Articles

Hello all,

I’m Stephen, the editor (and sometime writer) for SPD Help on Office Online. In case you’ve missed them, we’ve recently published some Help articles on designing workflows:

• Collect data from a user in a workflow
• Assign a form to a group in a workflow
• Assign a to-do item in a workflow
• Create a secondary workflow

Coming soon are articles on the "Send email" action, workflow lookups, initiation forms, and troubleshooting workflow errors.

Also in the works are a series of screencasts about designing workflows in SPD. We'd really like to hear about any scenarios where an SPD workflow provided a solution for you, or scenarios where you're still trying to implement a workflow.

To get the latest Help info on SPD, you can subscribe to our SPD RSS feed on Office Online. I program this feed with videos, screencasts, articles, and training that are available from all Microsoft sites and resources, including the latest Help articles from Office Online.

Cheers,
Stephen

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 06, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 15, 2007
  There are some great new articles on the SharePoint Designer team blog which are really useful if you

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2007
  How about some articles on using the controls in the Toolbox. There is nothing in the SPD Help on any of them

• Anonymous
  December 16, 2007
  How about some help on extending SharePoint designer from C#? I could think of a couple of add-ins that would certainly ease my work!

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2008
  Good article.  I am having a problem with a related type of workflow... I have a InfoPath form library.  When a new form is added to this library, I want a new InforPath form created in a second library and populated with a selection of data elements form the first form.  Using SPD, I see a "create new list item", but not a "create new library item".  When I try the "create new list item" action, there is a title, but no backing form template assigned.  Can you help?

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2008
  Using the "add web parts" function, I want our companies "announcements" and "Quote of the week" to show up on our home page.  It looks fine when I have the site open in sharepoint designer, but when I log on as a user, it shows up in HTML code.  I'm new to this program, so any help is appreciated!

• Anonymous
  August 20, 2008
  I too, would like to know where to find what the toolbox tools do. how do I know what to use, I've taken a class on MS SPD and it only covers a quarter of what can be used. isn't there a manual?

• Anonymous
  August 28, 2008
  I created a workflow with SharePoint Designer 2007.  I have 9 reviewers that will be reviewing a document and the workflow assigns a tasks and each reviewer receives an email task notification with links to the document properties and to the SharePoint task page.  This works fine for 6 of them, but reviewers 5, 6 & 8 will let me connect to the Task page, open the doc properties, but when I select the Edit properties I get an error message -    Go back to site  Error: Access Denied.  I don't understand why I get this message for only three reviewers.  Any Help would be greatly appreciated!

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  I am brand new to this blog, and blogging in general. I can't figure out how to post a question. I apologize for the ignorance, and thank you in advance!

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2009
  hi.. i got some real irritating problem. i am working on a wrokflow to get approval from the participants for the leave purpose. i set the condition that : if Designation equal ABC then Collect Data from user XYZ set worflow variable to Taks send email. it is working perfectly fine. but now when i add another condition, it simply dont check the designation or automatically completes the action and the status of the workflow is automatically completed (in sharepoint, server, library). kindly.... HELPPPPPPPP....!

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2012
  Hi, Is there a way to have SharePoint designer use lookup fields when creating a word document containing list fields? If not, is there a way to have SharePoint designer look at multiple lists when doing the workflow. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  February 13, 2012
  @MissM Hello, MissM. I think we need to know more detailed scenario on what you want to do. We currently support lookup field for other list column and also support lookup from multiple list or WORD document field if it is connected to SharePoint list column but your question is not clear on what you wants to do. Can we ask you to tell us more about your scenario?