Office 2010 Workflow: Developing Collaborative Solutions

Chapter 4. Three-state Workflow

Your first workflow will use the built-in Three-state workflow. As its name suggests, this workflow supports three states, which can be any three states and are referred to as the initial, middle, and final states. This is a good example of designing a generic process that you can reuse in a lot of different scenarios. For this exercise, you'll associate this workflow to a list of work requests.

Creating a New Site

First you should create a new site. You could use the default site that was created when SharePoint was installed. However, putting your test solutions into separate sites will help keep things organized. Creating a site is easy. Launch the SharePoint site, which will be the following URL (if installed ...