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Category Archives: Workflow

Migrating Notes workflows that implement “dynamic” document security

2 Comments Posted by on February 4, 2011

We have discussed various issues about workflow in the past [link].  To make a long story short, there is no way to press a button and magically translate Notes code-based workflows to SharePoint declarative workflows, but Notes Migrator for SharePoint does an excellent job at migrating your workflow state.  Recently we have been getting a [...]

SharePoint 2010, Tech Notes, Workflow

Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: Declarative Workflow

1 Comment Posted by on February 3, 2011

When people think of complex custom Notes applications they think of workflow.  Workflow is an especially important consideration when migrating Notes applications because migration tools, which can do a great job migrating schema, content, security and forms, have a hard time translating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows. Notes workflows are almost always implemented as code [...]

SharePoint 2010, Workflow

Migrating workflow state and approval processes

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 1, 2011

As described previously, when migrating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows you are really switching from code-based workflows (logic encoded in button events, agents, etc.) to declarative workflows.  And using Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you can migrate your workflow state so you can preserve in-progress workflows between the two systems.  To achieve this, simply migrate the  [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes, Workflow

Basic approaches to migrating Notes workflows to SharePoint

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 22, 2010

As our customer base gets smarter and smarter about SharePoint and migration issues, I hear about Workflow more and more.  It was amazing how often it came up at the SharePoint Conference compared to other shows 6, 12, 18 months ago.   Naturally, all of our customers would like to push a button in our tool [...]

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