SharePoint 2013 Workflows

SharePoint 2013 Workflows
Agenda
What's new ?
Types of Workflows
Workflow Manager
ODATA
Troubleshooting
What's New ?
Features
Two SharePoint workflow platforms
SharePoint Designer enhancements
Workflow Manager capabilities
Windows PowerShell cmdlets that manage workflow
Types of Workflows
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager 1.0 is focused on delivering these key capabilities:
High Density & Multi-tenancy
Elastic Scale
Activity / Workflow Artifact Management
Tracking and Monitoring
Instance Management
Fully Declarative Authoring
REST and Service Bus Messaging
ODATA
OData is a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST. The result is a uniform way to expose full-featured data APIs.
Example:
http://contoso/_vti_bin/client.svc/web/lists/getbyid('22638aba-8564-49eb-82fe-3c7f0b4f2fb5')/Items?$filter=GUID eq 'b55d1369-b62e-4366-b824-ebc724d3af7f'&$select=Author
Troubleshooting Workflows
Common errors guide
ULS logs
Analytic and debug reports
Database tables
SharePoint Designer Enhancements
A visual workflow development experience that uses a Visio 2013 add-in
A new action that enables no-code web service calls from within a workflow
New actions for creating a task and starting a task process
New coordination actions that let you start a workflow built on the SharePoint 2010 Workflow platform from a workflow built on the SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform
A new Dictionary type
New workflow building blocks such as Stage, Loop, and App Step
PowerShell Cmdlets
Get-SPWorkflowConfig
Set-SPWorkflowConfig
Get-SPDesignerSettings
Set-SPDesignerSettings
Register-SPWorkflowService
Copy-SPActivitiesToWorkflowService
Get-SPWorkflowServiceApplicationProxy
New-SPWorkflowServiceApplicationProxy