Microsoft Visio 2010 – SharePoint 2010

Here I have tried to give some basic explanation about Visio 2010 and how it’s being use in new SharePoint 2010 world.

Visio 2010 has its own template called “Microsoft Sharepoint Workflow”
Visio 2010 has its own SharePoint workflow activities i.e. Actions, conditions, terminators
We can check Visio diagram for validation errors.
After completing Visio workflow, we can export workflow to “Visio workflow interchange” format to import the same workflow into Sharepoint Designer 2010.
We can import Visio workflow to designer, than we need to assign/attach workflow to any of the content types in site like document, item.
For workflow activities, we need to change/modify from designer like collect data activity.
We can publish workflow to globally or list level.
From workflow settings page, we can have option to see workflow visualization on status page, this is new feature added in SharePoint 2010 from which we can actually see and visual workflow current stage.
After publishing workflow, system will generate association, initialization and data collection InfoPath forms which used by workflow
From SharePoint site, we can go into any list and select content type to attach workflow to list level. (we can have workflow at content type level too)
We can see workflow status in workflow visualization section and also able to open same Visio diagram and changed into it.
We can save workflow as "template" and use same template into visual studio projects.
In Visio we can only make the actual design of the workflow, not the configuration which is done in SharePoint Designer 2010

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Sanket Shah