Security and Audit Trail of Workflow Tasks in SharePoint 2007 & Visual Studio 2008
Two requests that are probably part of every SharePoint workflow design: Permit only the users who are assigned a WF tasks to edit (i.e. complete) them Record the user name of the person who completes a task (instead of the System Account) Not suprisingly, neither of these pretty simple, seemingly obvious design concepts can be done out of the box / without some customization. Also, certain configuration screens might trick you into thinking you can do this directly within the SharePoint UI (you can't; more on this in the deeper blog posts). Part 1: Security of Workflow Tasks in SharePoint 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 Part 2: Audit Trail of Workflow Tasks in SharePoint 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 There are a couple of good blog sources for each of these customizations, but I didn't find any of them to be thoroughly detailed with screenshots, pitfalls, etc. So what I hope to do in this two part blog post is cover some portions I think those...