You can go to the Workflow Status page directly from the list or library where the document or item involved in the workflow is saved. If the list or library that contains the item for which you want to view the workflow status is not already open, click its name on the Quick Launch. If the name of your list or library does not appear, in the Site Actions menu, click View All Site Content , and then click the name of your list or library. Point to the document or item that is involved in the workflow, click the arrow that appears, and then click Workflows.
Under Running Workflows , click the name of the workflow for which you want to view the status. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! We inherited a half completed project from a consultant which used WF as its backbone. It was prone to errors, corrupted workflows that can't be restarted, an archaic versioning system that requires a complete duplicate of the workflow for any minor changes, horrific generated code, and such a delicate code that you have to handle it with kid gloves.
After 6 months of yellow screens of death we scrapped the entire WF and used xml instead. Best decision we ever made. The phrase: "Doesn't provide enough power, flexibility, or productivity gain to justify its use" says plenty enough for me. Thank you for that.
Haters need to explain their hate. Show 4 more comments. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of Workflow Foundation I gathered from my experience: Advantages Persistence: If you're going to have many long running processes think days, weeks, months , then Workflows are great for this. Idle workflow instances are persisted to the database so it doesn't use up memory.
As a developer, I prefer to write code rather than snapping things together visually. And when you have a non-developer making workflows, you often end up with a huge confusing mess. Disadvantages Programming Model: You're really limited in programming features. Think about all the great features you have in C , then forget about them. Simple one or two line statements in C becomes a fairly large block activities. This is particularly a pain for input validation.
Having said that, if you're really careful to keep only high-level logic in workflows, and everything else in C , then it might not be a problem. Performance: Workflows use up a large amount of memory. If you're deploying a lot of workflows on a server, make sure you have tons of memory.
Also be aware that workflows are much slower than normal C code. Steep learning curve, hard to debug: As mentioned above. You're going to spend a lot of time figuring out how to get things to work, and figuring out the best way to do something. Workflow Version Incompatibility: If you deploy a workflow with persistence, and you need to make updates to the workflow, the old workflow instances are no longer compatible.
Supposedly this is fixed in. NET 4. You have to use VB expressions. Not flexible: If you need some special or specific functionality not provided by Workflow Foundation, prepare for a lot of pain.
In some cases, it might not even be possible. Who knows until you try? There's a lot of risk here. You don't even need to define an interface. Mas Mas 4, 5 5 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. Most of your disadvantages are simply not true, maybe you are not familiar enough with WF. WF is very flexible. It let's you write custom activities code activities that you can reuse in any scenario. It's up to you to write reusable activities.
Now they can change and re-arrange business logic in their needs and they don't require developers and even compile a new application. Now imagine the Business Consultants have to use your self-hosted designer, but without Intellisense! Either roll your own or you have to use Visual Studio. I also think it will be difficult for Business Consultants to even understand some of the concepts such as compensation, cancellation, exception handling.
To make larger workflows more manageable, workflows can now be searched by keyword. This feature is only available in Visual Studio; this feature is not available in a rehosted designer.
There are two kinds of searches available:. Properties of Activity objects, FlowNode objects, State objects, Transition objects, and other custom flow-control items. Quick Find is performed on the designer's ModelItem tree. Quick Find will not locate namespaces imported in the workflow definition. Keywords searched in workflows will match the actual content of the workflow files. The search results will be shown in Visual Studio Find Results view pane.
Double-clicking the result item will navigate to the activity which contains the match in workflow designer. NET Framework 4, variables and arguments could only be deleted in the designer using the keyboard. Starting with. Since a workflow or certain container activities such as NoPersistScope can only contain a single body activity, adding a second activity required the developer to delete the first activity, add a Sequence activity, and then add both activities to the sequence activity.
The following screenshot shows the automatically created Sequence activity in the Body when a second WriteLine is dropped below the first. To more easily navigate a large workflow in the designer, pan mode can be enabled, allowing the developer to click and drag to move the visible portion of the workflow, rather than needing to use the scroll bars. The button to activate pan mode is in the lower right corner of the designer. The following screenshot shows the pan button which is located at the bottom right corner of the workflow designer.
Multiple activities can be selected at one time, either by dragging a rectangle around them when pan mode is not enabled , or by holding down Ctrl and click the desired activities one by one. Multiple activity selections can also be dragged and dropped within the designer, and can also be interacted with using the context menu.
In order to make hierarchical workflows easier to navigate, components of a workflow are shown in a tree-style outline view. The outline view is displayed in the Document Outline view. Clicking on a node in outline view will navigate to the corresponding activity in the workflow designer, and the outline view will be updated to show activities that are selected in the designer.
The following screenshot of the completed workflow from the Getting Started Tutorial shows the outline view with a sequential workflow. Prior to. Visual C projects now use C for expressions.
A fully functional C expression editor is provided which capabilities such as grammar highlighting and intellisense. C workflow projects created in previous versions that use Visual Basic expressions will continue to work.
C expressions are validated at design-time. Errors in C expressions will be marked with a red wavy underline. For more information about C expressions, see C Expressions. In a rehosted designer, some of the standard UI controls may not have meaning for a given workflow, and may be turned off.
NET Framework 4, this customization is only supported by the shell bar at the bottom of the designer. NET Framework 4, connections between nodes in a Flowchart workflow had to be added manually. Dropping an activity on one of these points automatically adds the activity along with the necessary connection.
The following screenshot shows the attachment points that become visible when an activity is dragged from the toolbox. Activities can also be dragged onto connections between flowchart nodes and states to auto-insert the node between two other nodes.
The following screenshot shows the highlighted connecting line where activities can be dragged from the toolbox and dropped. To facilitate developing larger workflows, the designer now supports adding annotations to help keep track of the design process.
Annotation can be added to activities, states, flowchart nodes, variables and arguments. The following screenshot shows the context menu used to add annotations to the designer. NET Framework 4, non-activity elements could not support debug breakpoints since they were not units of execution. This release provides a mechanism for adding breakpoints to State objects.
When a breakpoint is set on a State , execution will break when the state is transitioned to, before its entry activities or triggers are scheduled. Activities in.
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