Posts Tagged ‘workflow’

Note: Today’s blog post comes from Vadim Tabakman, Technical Evangelist for Nintex with over 8 years of experience in SharePoint and Nintex technologies. He understands how SharePoint, business process automation and forms can join forces successfully in numerous industries and business scenarios to drive business adoption and succeed in SharePoint projects. Vadim brings an excellent […]

This guest post is brought to you by our friends and partner, K2. For more than a decade, K2 has been helping customers rapidly transform their companies with applications that connect the right people to the right information and work. With offices and distributors all over the globe and a powerful partner network, more than […]

Matt Morse, director of Perficient’s Customer Experience team,  shares how the Perficient team used Nintex’s Workflow 2010 to reduce the amount of time needed to create a workflow to manage a publishing process for a Healthcare client in this short video.  Leveraging Nintex’s Workflow 2010 allowed the Perficient team to quickly create workflows for the […]

Sometime ago I came across the issue of handling multiple tasks in parallel. Turned out Windows Workflow Foundation provides a friendly replicator activity. So I decided to use it to develop a workflow that upon kick off reads items from other lists for assignment, business areas and notification lists and spawn multiple tasks dynamically in […]

We all face challenges (both planned an unplanned) on our projects. In a recent post, I discussed 5 Things Project Managers Can Learn From Their First WCM Project. This post is the first in a 5-part series where we will discuss those in more detail. The first one is working with Creative Types. On most […]

My colleague Candace recently wrote a guest post on Workflow Security in Sitecore, where she referenced the common desire of a Content Manager to have intelligent, context-specific emails generated around Sitecore Workflows.  Here’s her follow up on how to produce such emails. Sitecore provides email functionality out of the box with its workflows.  It’s really […]

The following is a guest post written by Candace, a colleague of mine who is also a part of the Perficient Sitecore Competency Center. Initially, I found setting up a workflow in Sitecore confusing and frustrating.  I hope this article helps you avoid some of that frustration.  Chapter 3 of the Workflow Reference is fairly clear […]

Liferay is introducing Dynamic Data Lists in v 6.1 .  Also known as User Data Lists, they are kind of similar to Microsoft SharePoint Lists.  The idea behind the lists is to allow end users to create simple applications without the need for custom development. In fact, Liferay says that 80% of the simple applications […]

All over the web, there are plenty of links to how to interact with SharePoint 2010 via the Client Object Model. Unfortunately, these interactions are all done via the compiled Client Object Model, not the Silverlight or JavaScript versions. That means you have to do the translation to JavaScript or Silverlight yourself. For Silverlight, that’s […]

When I look at Forms products I see a huge return on investment especially if it can be paired with an easy to use workflow tool.  Just as the market continues to evolve, IBM continues to work on their Forms tools. What’s New IBM renamed it to IBM Forms.  It is now the Forms tool […]

As a user experience designer, my goal is to help design products and software that are as easy, efficient, and enjoyable to use as possible. A critical part of this design process involves understanding the needs of the various stakeholders–everything from the need for end users to be able to use the product without hassle […]

Whenever you have a form, you more than likely also need a workflow.  I would bet that 70% of the time a human based workflow would be sufficient and that 30% of the time you need a tool that handles both human workflow (review the form, make changes, and approve it) as well as computer […]