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Architecting Workflow Solutions in MOSS 2007

Architecting Workflow Sol\'ns MOSS 2007 - Description

This course is for Developers and Analysts who will be responsible for building workflow applications in SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 on SharePoint 2007.

Recommended Audience for Architecting Workflow Sol\'ns MOSS 2007

Solution Architects, Developers and Analysts responsible for building workflow applications in SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 for Windows, ASP.NET and SharePoint 2007 applications.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:

At least six months combined experience as a technical and solution architect for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 projects.
Led consulting engagements that are focused on the workflow technologies of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Experience gathering and analyzing customer experience.
Completed course 5061A: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 OR MOSS 2007 End User Training - Power User (or equivalent knowledge)

Architecting Workflow Sol\'ns MOSS 2007 - Objectives

Day 1
Introduction to SharePoint 2007 Workflows

How to model business processes as workflows
Benefits of standardizing and using workflows
Introduction to Workflow in SharePoint 2007
Introduction to Microsoft.NET 3.5 Windows Workflow Foundation

SharePoint 2007 Workflows in SharePoint Designer 2007

Explore Out of the Box workflow in SharePoint 2007
Creating Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007
Design, Code and Deploy a SharePoint Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007
Visual Studio 2008/2005 Vs. SharePoint Designer 2007

Windows Workflow Architecture Overview

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Introduction and key concepts
Advantages of using Workflows in Business Process Automation
Overview of Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Designer

Getting Started with Workflow Development in Visual Studio 2008

Workflow Framework Architecture and Runtime Services
WF Activities, Conditions and Events
WF Runtime Engine (Workflow Model, Scheduler, Rules, Tracking)
Base Host Providers (Transactions, Persistence, Notifications, Roles, Tracking, Messaging)

Integrating with Visual Studio 2008

Exploiting WF design-time features
Composing workflows with the Workflow Designer
Implementing WF application code
Build and Deploy Microsoft.NET Sequential and State Machine Workflow using Visual Studio 2008
How to debug a workflow, attach to a process, exception and error handling techniques

Coding custom workflow activities

Modeling discrete business processes
Harnessing the activity execution model
Developing dependency properties
Linking activities through activity binding

Day 2
SharePoint Workflow Development using Visual Studio 2008

Design, Code and Deploy a Simple SharePoint Workflow
Understanding the major Microsoft Windows SharePoint Workflow Objects
SP Workflow Manager hierarchy Communicate with content types such as SharePoint Lists, Document Libraries etc. inside Workflow code, passing custom values to workflows using parameters, Event Receivers
Building and Deploying (Feature development) SharePoint Workflows using Visual Studio 2008/2005
Using the WSS Workflow API to start, run, cancel workflows, return all workflows running on a specific item, manage workflow instances, perform other administrative operations

Forms Services Integration with SharePoint Workflows (ASP.NET and InfoPath)

Workflow Structure and Custom User Interface for Interacting with Workflows
Workflow Association, Initialization and Modification Forms as ASP.NET pages
Specifying the Association, Initiation Forms and Modification ASP.NET Forms
Processing of Association, Initiation Forms and Modification ASP.NET Forms
Using ASP.NET Pages to create custom Task Forms
Understanding InfoPath Forms, InfoPath Forms Services and Office Forms Server
How the Design Checker works
How to publish forms to a form library and to a Content Type
How to Upload, Verify, and Manage form templates in Central Administration. And why they might want to use this option.
How to make InfoPath form fields available to SharePoint.
How to configure Submit options, and display forms in a Page Viewer web part.
Displaying InfoPath Workflow Forms
Submitting Information Using InfoPath Workflow Forms
Creating Association, Initiation, and Modification InfoPath Forms
Workflow Task Forms in InfoPath
Workflow Task InfoPath Forms to use Task Data
The Contact Selector Control
How to utilize SharePoint Task based Activities for assignment of User Task for Workflows
Workflow Task Form Processing including Workflows waiting for Task State changes
How to use workflows to enhance business processes and standard operating procedures

SharePoint Workflow Hands-On Project
Let’s put everything that you have learned during the previous sessions and hands-on labs into a real-world like project for Workflows using SharePoint.

The project work is 100% hands-on for about 4 hours working with the instructor 1:1 to create a SharePoint workflow enabled business application. At the end of the project, you will be equipped to create a real-world SharePoint workflow.
The instructor will also discuss the best practices to move the workflows from development to test to production servers using SharePoint features

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