MOSS - Add custom workflow activities to SharePoint Designer
Carlos Segura Sanz mentioned in his blog this useful article
Without a doubts one of the best things of MOSS 2007 is the new SharePoint Designer, and within him, the workflow designer, that allows us speedy and simple form to design workflows.
As I have commented in other occasions, if we wish to make more complex workflows, or state machines, we need to use Visual Studio.
SharePoint Designer, allows us to make sequential workflows with predetermined activities. Nevertheless, the possibility to extend the basic activities exists and we can extend the functionality of ours workflows without to write them completely in Visual Studio.
Out-the-box, SharePoint Designer includes 22 actions.
Those actions are defined in the file WSS.ACTIONS, that resides in the directory “C:\Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared \web server extensions\12\1033\TEMPLAT\Workflow”.
In this file, the conditions and the actions that appear within SharePoint Designer are defined.
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