Tuesday, March 15, 2016

How to Backup & Restore a SharePoint Designer workflow and add it another site?


  • Go to the site you have the workflows on
  • Select Site Actions -> Edit in SharePoint Designer.
  • Select “All Files” in the Navigation, then click “Workflows”
  • Right-Click the workflow And go to “Copy”
  • SharePoint Designer. Go to your destination site.
  • Go to Site Actions -> Edit in SharePoint Designer.
  • Right Click and choose “Paste”. 
  • The workflows should be there, but they are not associated with the list 
  • SharePoint recognizes and attaches workflows to Lists and Libraries using their ListID. 
  • We can change that through the .xoml.wfconfig.xml
  • Select the “All Files” again in the navigation, then click “Workflows”, then click the workflow name.
  •  Open With -> SharePoint Designer (Open as XML).
  • Delete the ListID, and paste the ListID you copied earlier here.

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