SharePoint 2013 - How To Migrate SharePoint 2010 Style Workflows - Part One

In this article we are going to learn the steps that are involved in moving SharePoint 2010 style reusable workflows from one site to another and I must say this a bit of tricky process all around.

The whole process of exporting SharePoint 2010 Style Workflow involves eight steps as shown below in Process flow diagram which I will deliver as a series of four articles,

Process Diagram

So we can see that we have to go a long way to go in order to accomplish the task of moving workflow from one location to another so let’s hit the ground running

Step 1 - Create Site Collections

In order to setup this demo we need to first create two Sites. Let's call them “Site001” (Source) & “Site002” (Destination)

So the task is to move a reusable SharePoint 2010 Workflow from Source Site to Destination Site.

So we created both Source & Destination Sites as per usual process as shown below:





Step 2 - Source Site – Provision Content Type

In order to develop a reusable workflow in the Source site we would be needing a Content Type to be provisioned first, and based on that we can create the required reusable workflow

In order to provision the Content Type let's create a solution and add a content type based on our business requirements.

Here for the sake of this demo I have added a Content Type called Customers with just two fields, “Work Address” & “Company Name”

Lets’ name the feature associated with this content type as “Enable Customer Logging”

In order to provision the Content Type we need to deploy the solution and activate the “Enable Customer Logging” feature

In order to verify if the Content Type is provisioned we can go to Site Settings > Site Content Types

Filter the content types by group “Custom Content Types”

We can see the “CustomerCT” Content Type available in the Site Content Types List

That is all for this demo.

Part 2 of this Series.