Workflows in MOSS 2007


Workflows basically comes in two flavours:
1)Human-Centric : People are the prime participants and completers of tasks
2) Machine -Centric : Computers are the prime participants and completers of tasks

Now that you have understood the flavours of workflows now let me help you understand the Types of Workflows:
1) Sequential Workflows : The process has a beginning , a definite path and an end.
2) StateMachine Workflows : The process involvesa lot of complex activities and human intervention. It works around two concepts States,Events.
a) State: A condition that represents the curent status of the workflow
b) Event: manages the movement of the worklfow from one state to another

OOB Workflows in MOSS : All workflows that come along with the MOSS are 2 step workflows and cover some basic workflow scenarios
CUSTOM Workflows: Custom workflows can be developed using either the SHAREPOINT DESIGNER or the MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO

THUMBRULE for Workflows
1) Custom workflows that are sequential can be developed best by using SharePoint Designer. Here the option of Visual Studio can be used.
2) Custom Workflows that are StateMachine can be best developed by using Visual Studio. Here the option of SharePoint Designer is totally ruled out.

FLASH FLASH..........
1) VISUAL STUDIO 2008 helps you deploy the workflows automatically into the assembly. Whenver a worklfow project is compiled it automatically deploys in GAC.This reduces the effort that was involved in using earlier versions of Visual Studio .

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