Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Workflows and Client Applications

By default, workflows within document libraries and lists are invoked via the Documents/Items contextual drop-down menu, aside from workflows that fire immediately when a new document or item is added to a library/list where the workflow has been set to start automatically.

Workflows can also be accessed and started directly from Microsoft Office Word 2007 by accessing the File menu and selecting Workflows. Figure 10-10 shows the Workflows dialog box accessed directly from within Office Word 2007, which displays the workflows available to that document (or content) type. This option is available only to Word 2007, so if you’re still running Microsoft Office Word 2003, then you will need to invoke the workflow back ...