Post by oystagoymp on Sept 10, 2011 4:37:02 GMT -6
I'm working on a site where a user can withdraw money. If the user wants to withdraw money there's a conceptual workflow the request goes through before we make the actual withdrawal. Currently the "status" of the withdrawal is set by different departments in Sharepoint. Now, my task is to model a list of steps in a specific order and show the front end user where the request is in the list of steps, so for example if I have 4 steps: "request pending", "request received", "request sent to bank", "withdrawal accepted", and let's say a specific user's request is "request sent to bank", I need to show all the statuses in the correct order with the user's current request status (sent to bank) marked.
I'm not asking for a detailed explanation how to do this, I just need a general direction. I looked into sharepoint workflows but it seems like it's more of an event system than a model of ordered steps a request should go through, like send email or add task. Is there any way that Sharepoint supports a sequential list of steps for a request and can I download the steps in order from an ASP.NET application? Or should I use SharePoint as a persistence layer and model the workflow in my application? If I can do this in Sharepoint can anyone point me to some good tutorials on the subject?
Thanks!
I'm not asking for a detailed explanation how to do this, I just need a general direction. I looked into sharepoint workflows but it seems like it's more of an event system than a model of ordered steps a request should go through, like send email or add task. Is there any way that Sharepoint supports a sequential list of steps for a request and can I download the steps in order from an ASP.NET application? Or should I use SharePoint as a persistence layer and model the workflow in my application? If I can do this in Sharepoint can anyone point me to some good tutorials on the subject?
Thanks!