Pluralsight: SharePoint 2013 - Workflow Fundamentals

The goal of this course is to help people immediately get up to speed and productive in creating automated business processes as workflows in SharePoint 2013. The target audience for this course are developers and power users as I cover building workflows and assigning tasks using both SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. There no specific customer focus… everything I show you works both in an on-premises deployment as well as a hosted environment such as Office 365.

The goal of this course is to help people immediately get up to speed and productive in creating automated business processes as workflows in SharePoint 2013. The target audience for this course are developers and power users as I cover building workflows and assigning tasks using both SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. There no specific customer focus… everything I show you works both in an on-premises deployment as well as a hosted environment such as Office 365.

Course Description

Workflow changed quite a bit in the SharePoint 2013 release from previous versions of SharePoint. The new workflow platform is implemented with a new product called Workflow Manager 1.0. In this course you will learn all the fundamentals for creating custom workflows in SharePoint 2013 using Workflow Manager 1.0. This includes using tools designed for the power user such as Visio 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013 as well as the primary tool for the developer: Visual Studio 2012.

Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Workflow

This module covers the history of workflow in the SharePoint platform and the basics of the new architecture.

Module 2: Workflow Manager 1.0

Learn about the new workflow engine SharePoint 2013 depends on, how to install and update it as well as the basics of how Workflow Manager 1.0 works.

Module 3: Create Workflows with Visio 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013

Learn how to create workflows in SharePoint 2013 with the power user and business analyst tools: Visio 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013.

Module 4: Create Workflows with Visual Studio 2012

Learn how to create workflows for SharePoint 2013 using the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012.

Module 5: Utilizing Workflow Tasks and Outcomes

Learn how to utilize tasks in workflows as well as create custom tasks with custom outcome options.

Module 6: Types of Workflows

While SharePoint Designer 2013 only supports one type of workflow, learn how to create different types of workflows with Visual Studio 2012.

Andrew Connell
Developer & Chief Course Artisan, Voitanos LLC. | Microsoft MVP
Written by Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell is a full stack developer who focuses on Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365. He’s a 20+ year recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he’s authored & taught. Andrew’s mission is to help web developers become experts in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, so they can become irreplaceable in their organization.