Using SharePoint to Automate Workflows Part VII In this article we shall create a Sample Workflow in Visual Studio 2012: Activity Description: An employee raises a leave request on site. The request is submitted to the superior who can accept or decline the request. Acceptance or decline of the application will result in the final state—communication to the employee. Step...

This is the second article in the State Machine Workflow series and the fifth in the series titled Using SharePoint to automate Workflows. In this article we shall briefly examine the tools that are available to the workflow developer who plans to use SharePoint Server 2013. SharePoint 2013 comes with two workflow development platforms—the Workflow Manager and Visual Studio 2012....

In the preceding three articles in this series we had discussed the development of Sequential workflows in SharePoint Server. In this article we introduce State Machine Workflows with SharePoint Server and briefly highlight the differences between the two types of workflows that are possible in SharePoint Server. In the next few articles of this series we will be discussing State...