I am investigating the possibilities of using WWF to create a tasklist (aka worklist) application. How is this supported in WWF? Are there any information available about this somewhere?
Best regards
/ Rasmus
By tasklist, I assume you're referring to tasks that would be assigned to users interacting with your application. Although we don't have any activities that support tasks in the base activity library there are a couple of options:
1. Use Windows SharePoint Services v3 (included with Office 12). WSS v3 will provide additional workflow activities for managing tasks. It will also provide a UI for viewing/managing task through SharePoint and integration with Outlook tasks.
2. Create custom activities that manage tasks in your own data store or integrate with an existing task management system.
3. Implement your Task functionality as a local service (.net object) and call methods and react to events on the local service from the workflow using the InvokeMethod/EventSink activity. Take a look at this example in the SDK samples.
James Conard
Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation
http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon
Is SharePoint Services v3 already available?
Best regards
// Rasmus
No. Sharepoint Services v3 will be released with Office 12 next year.
It was covered in detail at the PDC. Here is the PDC presentation that provides more information on the use of Workflow in Sharepoint and the Task activities they will provide.
James Conard
Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation
http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon
Hi James.
I have identity service on data store, works like AD.
I need to implement a task list to associate activities to users.
I want to show a list of activities assigned to user that was waiting an action of user showing data about activity.
How can I obtain data of activities like public properties? I tried with SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance and SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance, but I can′t get custom data, like "Title of activity" (my public custom property of activity).
I need to implement my our trackingservice that persist my custom properties? SqlTrackingService doesn′t persist custom data of activities?
What I probally will implement is custom activities to manage tasks on my own data store. But I still don′t know how to create the relation of my table of tasks and the tracking service.
Can you help me with any suggest?
