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There's a common business scenario like this: User fills out an InfoPath form. Submits form. Long-running workflow process kicks off. While the workflow is running, we don't want anyone to change the content of the form. This office.microsoft.com example describes how to create a separate ''view'' and mark the whole view as read-only.  ...

As many people know, the Employee Training template provided by Microsoft here has a bug that we can reproduce following these steps: Create a class with a max size of 10 students. Register --> Total available seats properly decrements by one.  Result: 9 available seats. Unregister: --> Bug.  Total available seats should ...

I'm giving this post a slightly oddball ''Observed Behavior'' lead since I'm a little leery of drawing conclusions from it.  SPD workflows are ... temperamental. People are often asking / wondering / fretting over moving SPD workflows from one place to another.  Today, I followed these steps and made these observations: I created a ...

It's often useful to store status information in a custom list such as an approval code which should never be directly manipulated by end users.  This is a common business scenario.  I have been working on a project this year that generates various status and reminder dates via SharePoint Designer workflows that then drive KPIs and ...

This blog entry is more of an ''in the real of the possible'' entry vs. concrete info. We have a technical design that calls for us to create a site in a site collection via a manually launched workflow process.  Basically, users enter data into a ''new customer'' custom list and then when they have finished and validated the data entry ...