Showing posts with label SharePoint Designer Workflow 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint Designer Workflow 2013. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2021

How do I retrieve the value of a lookup-field in a workflow?

 The workflow is looking for a Date and Time field, but lookups return text. You need to return the field as Lookup text.


Set Variable: lookupStart to Current Item:Lookup: Sprint Start Date, Return fields as Lookup Value (as Text)

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.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

REST API and Loop workflow to send email in SharePoint Designer 2013

We need to create Site workflow
Workflow Structure:
Declare the build in dictionary


 Call rest services:


 Get log histroy all the username

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Before Days send reminder mail SharePoint workflow 2013 or Send an email through Sharepoint workflow one week before a date

In this blog, you can write the mail-address to the log,

Declare duedate =29/02/2016 & minus 7 days stored in date variable

After that we added condition,


Date time field only split date format only in SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow



In this article ,we have option for equal (ignoring time ) action in Sharepoint workflow.