Workflows are designed under the security concept that they run as System Account in the Windows SharePoint Services and the App Pool Identity on the server computer and domain. In Windows SharePoint Services the workflows always have administrator privileges, whatever privileges the App Pool has. This makes it possible for the workflows to perform actions routing of documents etc.
Workflows running under administrator privileges enable users who are not administrators to elevate their own privileges by running a workflow to perform actions they ordinarily could not. This setting cannot be changed, it is up to the workflow to detect user actions and decide whether or not to continue or rollback changes or impersonate a user to mimic their permissions.
When associating a workflow, the Start Options, allow users to manually start a workflow with edit permissions which is enabled by default. This means that any authenticated Windows SharePoint Services user with edit permissions on the list can start an instance of this workflow association. If the administrator checks the “Require Manage List Permissions to start the workflow”, then only the list administrators can start an instance of the workflow’s association. Administrators can use restrict users enabling user defined workflows associated to the site. This option is available in the Central Administration.
The enable user-defined workflows for this site option in the workflow settings of the application management of Central Administration, will enable custom workflows to be associated with the particular site. This option is enabled by default. Settings for alert notifications can also be changed for alert notifications need to be sent or not for internal users who do not have site access when they are assigned a workflow task, and also for sending alert notifications to external users to participate in workflow by sending them a copy of the document.
Set the
tag in the metadata section to true in the workflow.xml file to associate a workflow for a document library with the Document Content Type. This will enable the workflow to be associated by default with all the document libraries of document content type.
Workflows are designed under the security concept that they run as System Account in the Windows SharePoint Services and the App Pool Identity on the server computer and domain. In Windows SharePoint Services the workflows always have administrator privileges, whatever privileges the App Pool has. This makes it possible for the workflows to perform actions routing of documents etc.
Workflows running under administrator privileges enable users who are not administrators to elevate their own privileges by running a workflow to perform actions they ordinarily could not. This setting cannot be changed, it is up to the workflow to detect user actions and decide whether or not to continue or rollback changes or impersonate a user to mimic their permissions.
When associating a workflow, the Start Options, allow users to manually start a workflow with edit permissions which is enabled by default. This means that any authenticated Windows SharePoint Services user with edit permissions on the list can start an instance of this workflow association. If the administrator checks the “Require Manage List Permissions to start the workflow”, then only the list administrators can start an instance of the workflow’s association. Administrators can use restrict users enabling user defined workflows associated to the site. This option is available in the Central Administration.
The enable user-defined workflows for this site option in the workflow settings of the application management of Central Administration, will enable custom workflows to be associated with the particular site. This option is enabled by default. Settings for alert notifications can also be changed for alert notifications need to be sent or not for internal users who do not have site access when they are assigned a workflow task, and also for sending alert notifications to external users to participate in workflow by sending them a copy of the document.
Set the
tag in the metadata section to true in the workflow.xml file to associate a workflow for a document library with the Document Content Type. This will enable the workflow to be associated by default with all the document libraries of document content type.
