How many types of workflows are there in SharePoint 2013?
There are five commonly used Workflows that can be set up within SharePoint: Approval Workflows, Status Workflows, Notification Workflows, Automation Workflows, and Custom Workflows.
What is the latest version of SharePoint Designer?
Microsoft SharePoint Designer
| SharePoint Designer 2013 (x64) running on Windows 8 | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2013 (15.0.4849.1000) / August 2, 2016 |
| Operating system | Windows 7 or later |
| Platform | IA-32 and x64 |
| Size | 282 MB – 324 MB |
What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2013?
SharePoint Designer 2013 has been updated with the goal of making it the authoring environment of choice for authoring SharePoint workflows. SharePoint Designer 2013 provides workflow authors with both a designer surface and a text-based workflow authoring environment.
What are the workflow components available in SharePoint Designer 2013?
Now that the workflow is created, you can add Actions, Conditions, Stages, Steps, and Loops to build your workflow. These workflow components are available in the ribbon of SharePoint Designer 2013, as shown in the figure. Figure: Workflow items for the SharePoint Workflow platform
What’s new in workflow management in 2013?
There are several logic enhancements in 2013 that clear this up. The big changes are loops (for repeated actions or continuous monitoring of conditions), parallel block completion condition (allows the workflow wait for one action OR another action) and stages (makes it easy to return to an earlier step).
What are the benefits of SharePoint workflow actions?
They are also declarative-only (XAML) and designed to interact with the cloud and work with SharePoint Add-ins. One of their primary benefits is that they enable you to remotely host and run workflows outside SharePoint Server. Following are new workflow actions that are provided in SharePoint.