workflow-activity

I GO THE PLUGIN WORKING, AND I HAVE UPDATED THE WORKING CODE HERE. HOPE IT HELPS!! I'm creating a workflow which has a plugin to retrieve a contact entity from a "FROM" field of an Email record. I'm trying to see if that email exists in the contact entity. The input is the "FROM" email and the output will return the Contacts entity. I have not been able to get this code working, I've received different errors or no errors, but I know its not working. Please help! Thanks in advance! using System.Activities; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Workflow; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query

I'd like to validate the workflow within the design surface (in this case, Visual Studio) from within one of the child Activities' designer. I'd like to prevent users from moving forward until other errors are corrected in order to simplify the design experience later down the road. The naiive implementation doesn't work: var activity = (this.ModelItem.Root.GetCurrentValue() as ActivityBuilder) .Implementation as Activity; var validationResult = ActivityValidationServices.Validate(activity); if (validationResult.Errors.Count > 0)) { MessageBox.Show("The Workflow is invalid. Fix it.", "Derp");

Is this possible? I know it is for MS since they have WF activity packs but I'm not sure how it's done. It would be nice to be able to have Activities with Body blocks to insert other activities, buttons, etc. If not too much trouble and/or time consuming that is. Its easy enough if you follow a few rules. Here's an example of a NativeActivity that has a child: [Designer(typeof(MyActivityDesigner)), ContentProperty("Child")] public sealed class MyActivity : NativeActivity, IActivityTemplateFactory { // this "activity delegate" holds our child activity public ActivityAction Child { get; set; }

I'm trying to load a custom workflow activity onto a crm server. I loaded the project onto the server and have been using the CRM Plug-in Registration Tool. The server is CRM2011 and thus supports .NET 4.0 activities. However, when I press the "Register" button (After the assembly has successfully loaded onto the Tool) the following error occurs: `Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException'1[[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault, Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]]: Action failed for assembly 'ExecuteSQLJob, Version=1.0.0.0,

The error I am getting is "The WorkflowApplication has been aborted because a Load or LoadRunnableInstance operation threw an exception. Create a new WorkflowApplication object to try loading another workflow instance." I am using "workflowapplication" to run the workflow. The workflow instance I'm trying to load (there are a few of them) were created sometime ago and were persisted into the database. Is there a way to find the exception that was actually thrown during Load or LoadRunnableInstance operation? I caught this error in the "aborted" event on the workflowapplication object, but it

In Sharepoint designer's workflow editor I wish to retrieve the username/name of the work flow initiator (i.e. who kicked it off or triggered the workflow) - this is relatively easy to do using 3rd party products such as Nintex Workflow 2007 (where I would use something like {Common:Initiator}) - but I can't seem to find any way out of the box to do this using share point designer and MOSS 2007. Update It does not look like this rather obvious feature is supported OOTB, so I ended up writing a custom activity (as suggested by one of the answers). I have listed the activities code here for

This was my original question: I want to be able to open a pdf file in my app using the android's built in pdf viewer app, but i dont know how to start other apps. I'm sure i have to call start activity, i just dont know how to identify the app im opening and how to pass the file to that specific app. Anyone have a clue? I just learned that the pdf viewer i have on my phone is actually made by HTC and that Adobe just barely released their android pdf viewer (which is great). So the new question is this: how do i verify that the user has installed adobe's viewer, and then how do i open the file