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  • 1.  Email Monitoring

    Posted Mar 15, 2012 12:00 PM

    I'm not familiar with the Email Mailbox monitoring capabilities of Workflow, but I'm trying to figure out the best way possible to implement this process:

    1. Automated email sent to User with 5 questions
    2. User responses to questions in-line within the email
    3. Workflow monitors email for request and looks to see whether responses are all "Yes"
    4. If not all No, then new process is kicked off

    I was thinking about substituting Step 2 with a Workflow dialog component, but I'm trying to avoid using any forms entirely.  I just want Workflow to be similar to web services to kick off automated processes.

    ~Mark



  • 2.  RE: Email Monitoring

    Posted Mar 15, 2012 03:06 PM

    The process that sends out the automated email could be in a completely separate flow. Then you could build a Workflow/Monitoring process that starts from an Auto Start from Email component. This component functions similar to the Start component, but only kicks off when an email appears in a specified inbox. After you get the email, you can parse the email text for the 'YES' responses and accomplish what you need.