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Last post 09-09-2009 2:15 PM by administrator. 2 replies.
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  • 11-21-2008 8:21 AM

    Release Notes

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    This thread contains Workflow Essentials release notes.

    Tony Bierman, MVP Windows SharePoint Services™
    Managing Director
    Commercial Software Division
    SharePoint Solutions

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  • 11-21-2008 8:25 AM In reply to

    Public Beta 1 - 11/21/2008

    This is the initial public Beta for our new Workflow Essentials product.  Here's what's included in this release:

    Workflow Activities

    Add SharePoint Group
    The purpose of this activity is to add a new SharePoint group to a site.

    Add User to SharePoint Group
    The purpose of this activity is to add a SharePoint user to a specified SharePoint group.

    Convert String To Date
    The purpose of this activity is to convert a string value to a Date/Time variable.

    Copy List Item Extended
    The purpose of this activity is to copy or move an item from one SharePoint list to another.

    Create Site
    The purpose of this activity is to create a new SharePoint site.

    Delete Item Permission Assignent
    The purpose of this activity is to remove a permission assignment from a SharePoint item for a specified user.

    FTP Upload Item
    The purpose of this activity is to upload a file from a SharePoint list to an FTP server folder.

    Function With Query
    This purpose of this activity is to perform an arithmetic function on a distribution of values obtained from a numeric column in a list.  The list can be filerered with a CAML query in order to perform arithmetic on only  a subset of rows.  The arithmetic functions for this activity include count, sum, average, minimum, maximum and standard deviation.

    Get Site User Property
    The purpose of this activity is to retrieve the value of a given property for a site user and place the value into an output variable.

    Get User Department
    The purpose of this activity is to retrieve a specified user's department property from Active Directory.

    Get User Display Name
    The purpose of this activity is to retrieve a specified user's display name property from Active Directory.

    Get User Manager
    The purpose of this activity is to retrieve a specified user's manager property from Active Directory.


    Get User Title
    The purpose of this activity is to retrieve a specified user's title property from Active Directory.

    Grant Permission on Item
    The purpose of this activity is to grant permissions for a SharePoint item to a specified user.

    Loop Through List Items
    The purpose of this activity is to loop through all items in the current list and set the value of a column for each list item to a new value.

    Reset Item Permissions Inheritance
    The purpose of this activity is to reset a SharePoint item's permission inheritance to match that of its parent.

    RSS Feed
    The purpose of this activity is to fetch an RSS feed and plus the feed data into an output variable.

    Send E-mail Extended
    The purpose of this activity is to send an e-mail message.

    Send E-mail with HTTP File Attachment
    The purpose of this activity is to send an e-mail message with an attachment from a specified URL location.

    Send E-mail with List Item Attachment
    The purpose of this activity is to send an e-mail message with one or more attachments from a SharePoint list item.

    Start Another Workflow
    The purpose of this activity is to start another pre-existing workflow.

    Text Capture
    The purpose of this activity is to capture a portion of text from a larger text.

    Text Replace
    The purpose of this activity is to replace a portion of text in a larger text.

    Text Validate
    The purpose of this activity is to validate that a text matches a specified pattern.

    Workflow Conditions

    Is Role Assigned to User
    The purpose of this condition is to test whether a particular SharePoint role has been assigned to a specified SharePoint user.

    Is User a Member of SharePoint Group
    The purpose of this condition is to test whether a particular SharePoint user belongs to a specified SharePoint group.

    Tony Bierman, MVP Windows SharePoint Services™
    Managing Director
    Commercial Software Division
    SharePoint Solutions

    Please subscribe to our blog
  • 09-09-2009 2:15 PM In reply to

    Release Notes : Version 1.0.9251.1

    Symptom: Send Email Extended would not honor line breaks in email body.

    Line breaks in formatting of email body will now be preserved in the actual email.

    Symptom: Copy List Item Extended would not overwrite existing items in destination list with the same name.

    Any list item in the destination list with the same name as the item being copied will now be overwritten if the Overwrite option is set to Overwrite.

    Symptom: Commas in AD properties would cause the result to omit everything after the comma when using the Get Site User Property activity.

    The entire contents of the specified property including commas and all text after the comma will now be included in the resulting output of the activity.

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