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Can a single workflow generate multiple list items?

I need a workflow that, when a record is created in list A, will generate one record in list B for each record in list C. Is this possible? If so, how?

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Create a workflow and link it to list A. whenever a new entry is added to list this workflow. On this event from Context find list C and get all list.Items then run foreach on each list item and insert one entry into list B



tell me if this works for you

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You cannot use foreach on workflows created with Sharepoint Designer (as far as I know). To complete the required steps, you will need to create a custom workflow in Visual Studio. I had to go down this route quite recently and it wasn't as bad as I expected.

There are some great videos of this process on Robert Shelton's blog that helped get me started.



If your MOSS 2007 development environment is 64-bit (like mine), then you may have problems creating and debugging workflows using Visual Studio 2008. In this case, I would recommend WSPBuilder to help you package your workflows for easy deployment in Sharepoint. There is a nice post here on using WSP Builder

Hope it helps.

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