Workflow v project

Hi everebody!
1. Thanks to Doug Winnie and the WorkflowLab team for this new application.
2. I found very interesting the workflow approach very interesting. Nut it's not sufficient for day-to-day use. The project management approach is missing.
3. Proposals for WorkflowLab improvement
- Project definion as a workflow instance (workflow == class, project == object)
- Human ressources management (User, groups, teams, contributors, externals, ...)
- GANTT schema integration
- Non Adobe products and technologies integration
- Group of task (linked or not with a team)
- Timeline
- Link Adobe and non Adobe software and technologies (thanks to AIR 2.o new features and Switchboard technologies) : CS4, Story, Acrobat.com
- Type of project (Movie, Web site, software, etc.)
- Agile methodologies integration (Acrobat Connect, Poker Game, Backlogs, User stories, etc.) for web/software development project
- Data export (PDF, csv, xml, etc)
- Dashboard
- REST API
- BPEM (Business Process Engineering and Management) concepts and BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) integration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Modeling_Notation
Hope t may help
Have a good day!

Hi there...
Thanks for all of these great ideas -- We are working on ideas for upcoming features and will bring these to the team for us to review and possibly put into a future version. I can tell you that we will be supporting non-Adobe applications in the next version, so stay tuned...
Doug Winnie
Principal Product Manager

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Hi All,
i have created workflow using sharepoint designer 2013 for project server 2013 online. and i have also set the approver after the first stage. when i create a project using this workflow, project is created successfully and the approval task also go for
a approval to specific user. and i have set the property that after approval it has to go on specific stage. but the problem is when user approve the task it shows approved but my stage in workflow is remain same. it is not going to any stage.
i don't know why this type of problem is occur.
FYI, i have created same workflow for Project server 2013 on premise(Which is installed in my server) and
it is working fine but when i want to deploy this workflow in
project server 2013 online its giving error.
so please help me to solve this type of issue.
Thanks

I am also experiencing issues with this. After the approval task is completed, the Workflow gets cancelled with the following message
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at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager
bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
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workflow fails.
What is interesting is when the Approval task is completed, the approver will receive an email notification that the task was CANCELLED or DELETED....
not COMPLETED, which is what would be expected.
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There are no errors I can see anywhere in either the ULS logs or the VS logs.
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Hi Richard,
According to your description, my understanding is that you can add new workflow to project in Visual Studio 2013.
I did a test in my environment and it works fine.
Here is my create steps:
1. Create an empty SharePoint solution(Farm Solution).
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Did your project sandboxed solution? The sequential workflow is for farm solution.
Here are some detailed articles for your reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/hh824675(v=office.14).aspx
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/devwiki/articles/pages/sequential-workflow-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010.aspx
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Customize workflow for project in po account generator workflow

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i customize workflow for project of PO account generator.
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for that customize PO account generator.
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i checked why it is working for PO account generator.
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it is not reading it.
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reg
sasi

Hi Asif,
Thanks for the reply.
I referred the links mentioned by you, but couldn't find anything relevant to re-triggering of Account Generator workflow.
The customizations I did are working fine and is triggering the workflow. But my Question is, what are the circumstances that re-trigger the Account Generator for a given Purchase Order.
To elaborate, say for instance I have created a PO for PO category 'Electrical Equipments' furnishing all other details and charge account is generated for this category, and the PO is saved. Now I come back and change the PO category to 'Medical Equipments' for the same PO, retaining all the other info same.
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I'd obviously do the editing in a project designed for XDCAM, as that's the higher quality footage,
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No need to jump through these hoops. Just set yourself up with a universal Easy Setup that will handle both. Choose your regular XDCAM HD Easy Setup then open the Audio / Video Settings window and change the Capture Preset to "HDV" and the Device Control Preset to "HDV Firewire" ... then click the "Create Easy Setup" button and save it for recall whenever needed.
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Best
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Cost Approval workflow in Project Server (PWA) 2013

Dear All,
Is there any automation through which we can build some kind of Approval stages in PWA 2013 (Project Server) so that if any Manager wants to get approval on PO(Purchase Order) or some kind of approval related to Cost then it should flow in PWA?

Hi,
Just to clarify, are you looking to create a project in PWA once a PO has been approved? If that's the case you can use the 'Create Projects' option available in Project Server 2013. Also you can create the projects through the SharePoint workflows
Details can be found here:
http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/05/demand-management-and-ideation-in-microsoft-project-online/
http://pmarinescu.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/ideas-and-project-server-2013/
Hope this helps
Paul

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hi, would anyone like to give a brief description of the workflow they employ with regard to using the above?
for example,being a wedding photographer i have a folder called weddings then each wedding is a project with a reference number and each selection of images for conversion or selection to print is in a seperate album under that project. however i am coming unstuck when i have print orders from relatives that i want linked to that wedding project but need them to have their own ref number.folders everywhere with tenuous links to related projects.
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My workflow won't help you since I don't shoot weddings but my comments about your workflow may:
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Do you print in house or send out to a service?
- Why not make a folder under the wedding-project for each customer's print order, you can name the folder to match your invoice or job #
- Inside the order-folder make a series of albums for each print size.
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http://www.thomaswhitephoto.com
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Site Workflow or Project Workflow ?

Friends.
One client needs to have Have a Workflow approval for any changes that happen in any original / current project. I am wondering if I should:
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B -- have a site workflow inside the project workspace which needs to have the change in " scope,quality,budget or schedule"
C -- change the original Project EPT (which does not contain workflow) linked to a workflow. Have users to execute the approval steps/phases for new projects as well as Project changes. Then I will have them to " restart workflow when they need change
the scope/cost/schedule of their projects and find a way to track those changes (number of changes for each project)
In your experience what is the most used solution ? The original project EPT does not contain an workflow associated to it, so we just need cover " project changes" . (seens a bit strange that their original project does not need approval, maybe
they are doing some kind of project portfolio offline .have an additional project EPT with workflow to " manage variations of projects request"
or would be better if we bind variations/project change requests inside the original Project workspace, using site workflows
d) I have not figure how to put the " site workflow" to work, Can you pls send me some articles ?

Hi Bruno,
Here is what I'd suggest. Basically you're willing to put in place a
change request process through Project Server.
First you have to consider how you defined your EPTs and if you can have CR (change request) for any of them. For instance, you could have EPTs like R&D, improvment, new product... Then you could have CR for any of those EPTs. In this case (and it is
what I suggest), CR should not be a specific EPT, but a process available for each EPT.
Thus I'd advice to have something like a "change request" custom list in your SharePoint project site. You could first design the process with the CR metadata, then you'll include those metadata as the CR list columns (type of CR, approval required, $$,
scope, man/week required....).
On this list you can attach workflow for CR approvals. I'd also advice to associate to this process baselines in MS Project Pro to keep track.
The advantage is that you can afterward build reporting upon CR lists of all projects and consolidate globally change requests.
Hope this helps.
Guillaume Rouyre - MBA, MCP, MCTS

I can't see the workflow diagram in the out-of-the-box proposal workflow in Project Server 2010

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Shared Project Workflow Problem: Hitting a Wall with Markers

Hi there,
Apologies in advance for the long note. We're using Adobe CC to edit and finish commercials and are having a significant issue regarding shared project workflow. First, some context:
We often edit projects remotely. When this happens, assistants and other editors who remain in LA will have access to the media on our SAN while the editor and assistant traveling out of town will have their own copy of the media. I know Adobe Anywhere would solve any issue relating to two identical sets of media in use in different cities, but we're a small shop and the hardware and software expense don't make sense for us at this time. Please do not respond to anything mentioned from here on by stating we should just get Adobe Anywhere. Thanks.
What will regularly happen is that the remote editor and assistant will need work done on the project here in LA while they're in session with the clients. Sometimes this work involves marking up clips with comment markers so the editor can more easily locate a specific moment. Here's where the problem arises.
Unlike FCP and Avid, Premiere handles markers within the clip's metadata. So, if I have two separate projects linking to separate but identical instances of media, one of those media instances gets updated with new markers, there is currently no way to get those markers to the other project without also shuttling the new marked-up media. This is not possible when a remote editor needs dailies marked up in a couple hours and is working across the country or abroad.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that it is possible and we apply this workflow. Let's also assume that in the time it takes the local assistant to mark up the clips for the remote editor, the editor has added a couple markers of his own, which is reasonable and happens all the time. Now when the editor links to the newly marked up clips he's received via shipment, he'll wipe out all the markers he's made on his own since giving the order to mark up the footage. That is a significant inconvenience, especially with clients in the room asking stuff like "can we look at the take where the guy says 'good' instead of 'great'?"
So what happens if we just have repeating sets of media, so that every time the clips markers get updated, the editor actually imports those clips, even though the picture and audio data in those clips is completely redundant to what's already in the project. The issues with this are, as I can see it, 1) increasing the amount complexity within the project so that you'd have to scan many bins of dailies to look for a single marker, 2) increasing by orders of magnitude the amount of storage space needed, 3) even if problems 1 and 2 are handled, if you have to go to finish with multiple versions of a cut, and those versions reference separate instances of the same clip from different bins, Premiere's dupe frame detection will not work and you'll need to spend a lot of extra time locating duplicate clips manually before sending your EDL or XML off to final color grading.
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So what's the solution?
My workaround in CS6, which does not solve the issue of needing to merge clip markers so that an editor's markers and an assistant's markers can be applied to a single piece of media, was to turn off "write XMP ID to Files on Import." This would generate an XMP sidecar file which could be easily passed along with a project file to the remote editor, who could then overwrite his local XMP sidecars with the new ones containing the new marker info.
However, in Premiere CC that is no longer possible. It appears that if Premiere CC can access the XMP ID on a file, it will not generate a sidecar regardless of what you have set in your media preferences. We use ProRes Proxy as our dailies format (again, please no comments on this, it is not up for debate at this time) and Premiere can get to the XMP ID within the files and will not, no matter what it seems, generate an XMP sidecar.
We could change the company workflow to use DNxHD 36 instead of ProRes Proxy, which would give us XMP sidecars, but that would not solve the issue of needing to merge marker lists between projects non-destructively.
The best solution I can think of would be to have a script or some kind or built-in feature which would allow for the batch export, import and merging of marker lists. This way Adobe could keep its current clip-metadata-based marker workflow while giving professional users needing more flexible marker behavior the ability to have assistants non-destructively modify clip markers without necessitating the creation of extra media or project complexity.
I would really love some input on this and ideas from the pro community out there who has experience with shared project workflows - especially projects being shared remotely. There's not a lot of info out there about this and it would be great to hear what others are doing.
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Best,
Jon

Thanks Jim,
I understand that Adobe Anywhere solves this, but there should be this fairly basic functionality (which exists in Avid and FCP) in a non-enterprise edition of the software. I have submitted a couple different feature requests about this, going back to CS5, so hopefully enough people make similar requests for a fix to be implemented. Adobe Anywhere is really not a solution for our small shop as currently configured/priced, especially when we can have editors working remotely with very affordable USB 3 drives. The only hangup is the markers, which just isn't worth a 5 figure fix. As such it's hard to consider the problem solved for either us or any small shop or post crew.
Best,
Jon

Help needed Regarding Project Server - 2013 Workflow

Hi All,
I am new to Project server 2013 Workflow, hence please help me regarding this. Pardon me if this question is too trivial.
I have created a project type associated with a workflow and my workflow is as follows :
So I am not doing anything here, I am just testing the workflow as mentioned by technet site : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn458865(v=office.15).aspx
But it is mentioned that, after a minute or 2, the workflow state will change, also they have mentioned to press the Submit button.
But in my case, the workflow is not moving to next stage [It just says 'The workflow is still processing - which never changes after hours] or I am getting the submit button (Submit button is disabled on the ribbon). Below is the state of my workflow :
PS : I have made the user added to Portfolio managers group as well. But still I am having this same issue.
The Workflow manager is installed properly, and it is working fine in case of List workflow. I am facing the issue only wrt Site workflow for Project server 2013.
Please help me to solve this issue.
Thanks,
shanky

Hi Kiran,
I am now facing issue while assigning a task to a person in the workflow.
I am having a person named say 'John' , who is included in Project Manager as well as Portfolio Manager.
And I am using a workflow as :
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Assign a task to John (Task outcome to Variable: Outcome5 | Task ID to Variable: TaskID3 )
Transition to stage
Go to Approval
But this is again giving issue as :
Workflow Internal status : Cancelled
Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 {"error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Access denied. You do not have
permission to perform this action or access this resource."}}}
PS : I have used the same Sharepoint admin account for 'Account Name' in ‘User Profile Sync' , Is this causing the issue? Please let me know.
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Shanky

Error auto-firing an approval workflow inside a project's workspace

Hi all,
I have activated the SS2010 Workflow in PWA site collection features in order to use an approval workflow in one of my project's workspace. I setup the workflow under "Project Documents" and select to auto-start upon an item's creation. However this doesn't happen and I always get an eventreceiver exception in Event log. It works as expected when I fire it manually. I am connected as the system account.
Is this a known issue or is the log correct stating that a system account cannot trigger a workflow autostart (below)???
Event log details:
Error loading and running event receiver Microsoft.Office.Project.PWA.WSSEventReceivers.PSDBUpdater in Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.PWA,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c. Additional information is below.
: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: s
ULS related lines:
02/28/2010 23:55:04.38 w3wp.exe (0x071C) 0x15DC SharePoint Foundation Workflow Infrastructure b9vu Unexpected Declarative workflows cannot automatically start if the triggering action was performed by System Account. Canceling workflow auto-start. List Id: %s, Item Id: %d, Workflow Association Id: %s
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TIA,
Tassos

Tassos:
You might have better response to this question here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/project2010custprog/threads
Gary Chefetz, MCITP, MCP, MVP msProjectExperts
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Project Server Workflow

hi,
The project is created by the
project manager who then submits it to the project director. The project director then approves or rejects the project and the decision is sent back to the project manager. How is it possible to do this with project server workflow? is
it possible to assign a project manager and a project director to a project? how do you submit a project in the workfow? accept it? reject it? Can anyone tell the step by step workflow procedure?

Hi Sheelj,
This is a big question, even bigger since we even don't know which version of Project Server you're talking about, which matters. Anyway it will be too long and tedious to detail this complex feature here in a post.
With PS2013, it is now possible to build workflow using SharePoint Designer that requires less/no code than with Visual Studio with PS2010.
Basically you'll need either Visual Studio (PS2010) or SharePoint Designer (PS2013) to build the workflow then deploy it as a feature. Then in your PWA server settings, you are supposed to configure EPTs (enterprise project types) associated to workflow
and while creating a project with a specific EPT, the given project will follow the workflow.
Depending on how you built your workflow, different users will be able to approve at the different stages, it is your choice.
Finally some 3rd party tool are available on the market.
Please find some links below (for both 2010 and 2013) that will provide you a first start, then after some tests do not hesitate to come back to us with more specific questions :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff459292(v=office.14).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767699(v=office.14).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767694(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.office.com/2012/09/18/demand-management-now-with-sharepoint-designer/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767694(v=office.15).aspx
http://msprojectnow.com/Blog/tabid/142/entryid/617/Designing-and-Deploying-workflows-with-Project-Server-2013.aspx
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