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I’ve been working on designing a comprehensive workflow for a new application with the SharePoint 2010 workflow template for Visio 2010 Premium. I’ve already modeled the process flow in UML and looking to design it with the template in order to keep it maintainable and customizable moving forward. I googled around and there isn’t a lot of content in this area yet and I wanted something to assist my shape-choosing process. I created a dummy workflow with every single shape and imported the Visio Workflow Interchange (*.vwi) into SharePoint Designer to see exactly what steps each shape mapped into. Rather than store this for my own selfish benefit, I thought others may benefit from seeing what their shapes translate to in a SP Designer context.
Actions Table
Conditions Table
That satisfies my needs at the moment but if I get time I’d like to add some detail and screen grabs to the mix. Feedback and questions are both more than welcome!
Update #1: After some feedback from readers I decided to add the workflow shapes into the table.. formatting isn’t the prettiest but should act as a nice reference chart for those us charged with creating Visio workflows for SharePoint.
Let me know if there is any other features you’d find useful – feedback has been very positive so far!
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Grat info. You already saved me a lot of time. Thanks!
Colud you maybe add the icons of shapes?
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(Whit those tis would be a great cheat sheet
Thanks Miha – glad to hear you find it useful! I was wondering whether people would find it useful to have the icons in there as well so you’ve persuaded me to put them in.
I might publish the old text-only table if people want that as a reference too – but hope this is more useful for you guys now.
Enjoy!
Hamish.
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This is really terrific. I have Visio 2007 and was investigating upgrading to 2010 as my workplace (Government) is moving to SharePoint 2010 and (probably) Visio 2010. I wanted to know how things might look in the brave new world and you showed me.
Thanks
I am glad you found it useful! Workflow is certainly an area that has had some usability work in 2010 and the visio link makes for some great workflow visualisation although I find the sliverlight rendering a big sluggish.
I dont think its matured to the point where complex or non-standard workflows can be designed in Visio, thats a release or two off yet, but its a good starting point.