New Workflow Activities for SharePoint Foundation

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

New Workflow Activities for SharePoint Foundation

The following is a list of the new activities installed with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation:

Activity Name	Description
AddArrayIntoArrayListActivity	Adds an ArrayList object into another specified ArrayList.
CoerceActivity	The base class for all coercion activities that are used to take user input and attempt to coerce or cast the provided value into a certain data type.
CoerceBooleanActivity	Takes a provided object and tries to cast it into a Boolean value.
CoerceDateTimeActivity	Attempts to change a value to a DateTime object.
CoerceDoubleActivity	Attempts to change a value to a Double object.
CoerceIntActivity	Attempts to change a value to a Double object.
CoerceSPItemKeyActivity	Attempts to change a value to a SPItemKey object.
CoerceStringActivity	Attempts to change a value to a String object.
CommentActivity	Provides a means of updating the comments field in a specified workflow instance.
DateIntervalActivity	Provides information about the interval between two specific dates, like total hours, minutes and seconds.
DynamicStringActivity	Builds a string containing workflow variables (i.e. list name, creation date) for use in a specified workflow instance.
ErroredMarkupActivity	Provides a way to handle exceptions that are encountered when the markup generated for a declarative workflow is invalid.
ExtractSubstringFromEndActivity	Extracts the specified string from the end of a given value.
ExtractSubstringFromIndexActivity	Extracts a substring from a specified string at a given string index.
ExtractSubstringFromIndexLengthActivity	Extracts a substring from a workflow variable string at a given index in the string and for a specified length.
ExtractSubstringFromStartActivity	Extracts a substring from the beginning of a workflow variable string.
HTLookupActivity	Provides a means of looking up a value in the workflow properties HashTable.
ImpersonationSequenceActivity	Runs a set of child activities in order to elevate the security context of a running workflow instance.
PersistOnCloseActivity	Ensures that values are persisted when the ActivityExecutionStatus activity is closed.
SetCustomWorkflowStatus	Used to set the status of a workflow to a specified value.
SubmitFileActivity	Submits a file to a specified document repository.
WaitForDocumentUnlockActivity	A base class activity that pauses the workflow until a specified document is unlocked.