A sharepoint workflow cannot be attached to user profiles - as they are not part of sharepoint (strictly speaking - the service is using its own database, and not using sharepoint objects such as sites and lists).
In the past we managed to work around that by overriding the control that renders the user profile edit in the edit page. Our control still did everything the built-in control did, but would also add a piece of code when the user has clicked save. that piece of code could either trigger a windows workflow, or do some actions directly. However, if you are looking for an approval workflow you are out of luck unless you develop something very sophisticated - as our control as described only acts AFTER the chages were made to the user profile database, which is not what an approval workflow is there to do. Ishai Sagi Solution Architect and Director Microsoft SharePoint MVP, MCTS Extelligent Design SharePoint Consulting, Training and Products Mobile: 04-88-789786 Web: www.extelligentdesign.com Email: sa...@extelligentdesign.com Blog: www.sharepoint-tips.com On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Maxine Harwood <maxinetechg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Anybody have any suggestions how I might be able to initiate a workflow on > a profile change? These would be changes made through SharePoint (though it > would be cool if I could run the workflow on a profile change that was > imported – looking at the last modified date in LDAP might something I can > use? ).**** > > ** ** > > I have Nintex workflow 2010 and SharePoint 2010 enterprise. I know there is > a hidden list of users, but SharePoint 2010 doesn’t offer me any way to add > a workflow (in fact – I get no ribbon at all – can’t even change the view). > **** > > ** ** > > Suggestions?**** > > ** ** > > J > Max**** > > _______________________________________________ > ozmoss mailing list > ozmoss@ozmoss.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > >
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