Plan workflows (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010
Administrators plan workflows to ensure that processes follow a consistent sequence of actions during a business process.
A workflow is a feature of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that moves documents or list items through a specific sequence of actions or tasks related to a business process. Workflows can be used to manage common business processes such as document review or approval.
In this section:
Workflows overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
This article introduces the types of business processes that workflows can facilitate and describes the workflows included in SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Choose a workflow authoring tool (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
This article describes the different Microsoft supported workflow authoring tools, how they can be used together for rapid workflow authoring.
Plan for workflow security and user management (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
This article highlights some aspects of workflow behavior that relate to security and raises other issues for administrators and workflow developers to consider when they plan to configure and develop workflows.
Approval Workflow: A Scenario (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
This article shows how an approval-type workflow that is created in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 or Workflow Designer in Visual Studio 2010, and that is then hosted by using SharePoint Foundation 2010 might look.