Activate a workflow for managing records

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-04-28

After you have installed a Feature or a custom workflow for managing records, you must then activate that Feature before it can be used. By default, the status of a Feature is set to deactivated after it is installed.

To activate a workflow for managing records

Use the following procedures to activate a workflow for managing records.

Important

To run the stsadm command-line tool, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer.

Activate a workflow for managing records by using the user interface

  1. In Central Administration, click Site Actions, and click Site Settings.

  2. On the Site Settings page, under Site Collection Administration, click Site collection features.

  3. On the Site Collection Features page, click Activate next to the workflow feature you want to activate.

Activate a workflow for managing records by using the Stsadm command-line tool

  1. On the drive on which SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed, change to the following directory: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin.

  2. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    stsadm -o activatefeature -name LinkingExample -url targetsite

    For more information, see Activatefeature: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).

See Also

Concepts

Configure workflows for managing records
Install a custom workflow for managing records