Needed details on Workflow context ?

Question

Under Workflow context in Sharepoint designer i want to know behaviour of below listed item.
Associate Name :  ?
Associate Manual Start:  ?
Associate Manual Start Required Permission:  ?
Associate Start on Item change:  ?
Associate Start on Item Creation:  ?
Associate Start to Approve Major version:  ?
Associator:  ?
Current item URL:  ?
Current site URL:  ?
Current User:  ?
Date and time last RUN:  ?
Date and Time Started:  ?
Initiator:  ?
Instance ID:  ?
Item Name:  ?
Workflow status URL:  ?
Thanks
venkateshrajan

Answer 1

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5a5d64bc-3583-4dca-9a66-a661491db82c/getting-list-detailsof-the-associated-list-with-workflow-in-custom-workflow?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243736/how-to-get-the-context-item-in-workflow-activity-sharepoint 
The answer to this is a couple steps:
Add the properties to your Custom Activity .cs
Link the properties in your .actions file (so SPD knows how to map to your properties)
Use the properties in your code
STEP 1: Here is the code for the properties (my class is named GetEmails which you will need to rename to be your class):
public static DependencyProperty __ContextProperty = System.Workflow.ComponentModel.DependencyProperty.Register("__Context", typeof(WorkflowContext), typeof(GetEmails));
[Description("The site context")]
[Category("User")]
[Browsable(true)]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
public WorkflowContext __Context
get
return ((WorkflowContext)(base.GetValue(GetEmails.__ContextProperty)));
set
base.SetValue(GetEmails.__ContextProperty, value);
public static DependencyProperty __ListIdProperty = System.Workflow.ComponentModel.DependencyProperty.Register("__ListId", typeof(string), typeof(GetEmails));
[ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)]
public string __ListId
get
return ((string)(base.GetValue(GetEmails.__ListIdProperty)));
set
base.SetValue(GetEmails.__ListIdProperty, value);
public static DependencyProperty __ListItemProperty = System.Workflow.ComponentModel.DependencyProperty.Register("__ListItem", typeof(int), typeof(GetEmails));
[ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)]
public int __ListItem
get
return ((int)(base.GetValue(GetEmails.__ListItemProperty)));
set
base.SetValue(GetEmails.__ListItemProperty, value);
public static DependencyProperty __ActivationPropertiesProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("__ActivationProperties", typeof(Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties), typeof(GetEmails));
[ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)]
public Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties __ActivationProperties
get
return (Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties)base.GetValue(GetEmails.__ActivationPropertiesProperty);
set
base.SetValue(GetEmails.__ActivationPropertiesProperty, value);
STEP 2: Then in your .actions file add to your block the mappings for those properties (note the entries for __ListID, __ListItem, __Context, and __ActivationProperties):
<Action Name="[DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ACTION]"
ClassName="[Your.Namespace.Goes.Here].GetEmails"
Assembly="[yourDLLName], Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0bfc6fa4c4aa913b"
AppliesTo="all"
Category="[Your Category Goes Here]">
<RuleDesigner Sentence="[blah blah blah]">
<FieldBind Field="PeopleFieldName" Text="people field" Id="1"/>
<FieldBind Field="Output" Text="emailAddress" Id="2" DesignerType="parameterNames" />
</RuleDesigner>
<Parameters>
<Parameter Name="__Context" Type="Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.WorkflowContext" Direction="In" />
<Parameter Name="__ListId" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Direction="In" />
<Parameter Name="__ListItem" Type="System.Int32, mscorlib" Direction="In" />
<Parameter Name="PeopleFieldName" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Direction="In" />
<Parameter Name="Output" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Direction="Out" />
<Parameter Name="__ActivationProperties" Type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowActivationProperties, Microsoft.SharePoint" Direction="Out" />
</Parameters>
</Action>
STEP 3: Here is an example execute function:
protected override ActivityExecutionStatus Execute(ActivityExecutionContext provider)
Output = string.Empty;
try
SPWeb web = __Context.Web;
// get all of the information we currently have about the item
// that this workflow is running on
Guid listGuid = new Guid(__ListId);
SPList myList = web.Lists[listGuid];
SPListItem myItem = myList.GetItemById(__ListItem);
catch (Exception e)
return ActivityExecutionStatus.Closed;
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