SharePoint workflow kit

September 23, 2009:A new add-on for SharePoint, Virto SharePoint Workflow, expands the range of the standard SharePoint activities, providing wider opportunities for creating custom activity sets, and thus, more flexible customization of business processes.

The Workflow Kit is a set of no-code and ready-to-use activity blocks that you can easily add to SharePoint Designer and build your own workflow within a minute.

SharePoint 2007 can be customised via about 30 standard activity blocks in SharePoint Workflow Designer, however the standard set of activities sometimes does not allow for organizing specific business processes.

In the new version the set of Virto Workflow Kit activities is extended with a number of new, text and messaging related activities that allow:

— Sending a single SMS message to specified phone number via Clickatell and Smscountry bulk SMS gateways;

— Removing leading and trailing white-space characters and storing the result in a variable;

— Extracting a substring from a text and storing the result in a variable;

— Deleting items from a SharePoint list according to the filter settings.