Office Sharepoint Designer - Workflow Variables

Nicholas Sabatino

Not sure if this the right newsgroup for this, but there doesn't seem to be
one for Sharepoint Designer 2007.

Anyways, I'm designing a workflow for a WSS 3.0 site using Sharepoint
Designer 3.0. In one step, I need to collect a single piece of data from a
user, a date. So, I went through and used the "collect data" action, which
made a task, and programmed it to collect one date. In the "collect" part of
the action, though, the variable it uses isn't Date/Time, but rather List
Item ID. If I try to change it to a Date/Time, the workflow doesn't deploy
and throws an error. If I don't change it, the data is useless becasue I
can't make comparisons.

What gives?

Thanks,

Nick Sabatino

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Nick,

The link below is available for the Sharepoint Designer discussion group.

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<<"Nicholas Sabatino" <Nicholas > wrote in message
news:...
Not sure if this the right newsgroup for this, but there doesn't seem to be
one for Sharepoint Designer 2007.

Anyways, I'm designing a workflow for a WSS 3.0 site using Sharepoint
Designer 3.0. In one step, I need to collect a single piece of data from a
user, a date. So, I went through and used the "collect data" action, which
made a task, and programmed it to collect one date. In the "collect" part of
the action, though, the variable it uses isn't Date/Time, but rather List
Item ID. If I try to change it to a Date/Time, the workflow doesn't deploy
and throws an error. If I don't change it, the data is useless becasue I
can't make comparisons.

What gives?

Thanks,

Nick Sabatino>>
--
Please let us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<

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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Nick,

The link below is available for the Sharepoint Designer discussion group.

=============
<<"Nicholas Sabatino" <Nicholas > wrote in message
news:...
Not sure if this the right newsgroup for this, but there doesn't seem to be
one for Sharepoint Designer 2007.

Anyways, I'm designing a workflow for a WSS 3.0 site using Sharepoint
Designer 3.0. In one step, I need to collect a single piece of data from a
user, a date. So, I went through and used the "collect data" action, which
made a task, and programmed it to collect one date. In the "collect" part of
the action, though, the variable it uses isn't Date/Time, but rather List
Item ID. If I try to change it to a Date/Time, the workflow doesn't deploy
and throws an error. If I don't change it, the data is useless becasue I
can't make comparisons.

What gives?

Thanks,

Nick Sabatino>>
--
Please let us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<

LINKS
A. MS Office Sharepoint Designer news/discussion group via newsreader software
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof..._customization
or
MS Office Sharepoint Designer new/discussion group via browser:



B. MS Office Accounting Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser

or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com