J
Jon Davidson
After designing and creating a document control system in MOSS 2007 I decided
to include the "Collect Signatures" out of the box workflow for assigning a
new task and emailing said task to participates in the workflow, this
workflow can only be started from with-in word through the Workflows tab. It
worked GREAT when I was testing it on my laptop, but on my workstation the
'Workflow' tab is no-where to be found. I looked high and low for why the tab
wasn't there with multiple re-installs of office and lots of log crawling on
Sharepoint. The only difference that I saw was that on my laptop it was
Office Ultimate and on my workstation it was Small Business edition. I
figured great it’s most likely only in the "Professional" editions. So we
purchased two upgrades from small business to "Office 2007 Professional"
figuring the functionality was there. It wasn't. Of course I found this
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102202021033.aspx) hidden away
after we had purchased the upgrades.
Quote:
“The ability to start a Collect Signatures workflow from Office Word 2007 or
Office Excel 2007 is available only in Microsoft Office Professional Plus
2007, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, and Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007,
and in the stand-alone versions of Office Word 2007 and Office Excel 2007.â€
So my question is does anyone have a solution that will:
A)Not require a purchase of "Office Ultimate 2007", which is quite expensive
and many of the applications would not be used by our users.
B)Not require switching to volume licensing version of "Office Professional
Plus", as we are a small company and it is not cost effective yet
C)Not require buying "Word 2007 stand-alone", software that we already own
in "Small Business 2007" and "Professional" suites
Any help or guidance is very much appreciated.
Jon
to include the "Collect Signatures" out of the box workflow for assigning a
new task and emailing said task to participates in the workflow, this
workflow can only be started from with-in word through the Workflows tab. It
worked GREAT when I was testing it on my laptop, but on my workstation the
'Workflow' tab is no-where to be found. I looked high and low for why the tab
wasn't there with multiple re-installs of office and lots of log crawling on
Sharepoint. The only difference that I saw was that on my laptop it was
Office Ultimate and on my workstation it was Small Business edition. I
figured great it’s most likely only in the "Professional" editions. So we
purchased two upgrades from small business to "Office 2007 Professional"
figuring the functionality was there. It wasn't. Of course I found this
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102202021033.aspx) hidden away
after we had purchased the upgrades.
Quote:
“The ability to start a Collect Signatures workflow from Office Word 2007 or
Office Excel 2007 is available only in Microsoft Office Professional Plus
2007, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, and Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007,
and in the stand-alone versions of Office Word 2007 and Office Excel 2007.â€
So my question is does anyone have a solution that will:
A)Not require a purchase of "Office Ultimate 2007", which is quite expensive
and many of the applications would not be used by our users.
B)Not require switching to volume licensing version of "Office Professional
Plus", as we are a small company and it is not cost effective yet
C)Not require buying "Word 2007 stand-alone", software that we already own
in "Small Business 2007" and "Professional" suites
Any help or guidance is very much appreciated.
Jon