Ok, I've never liked the process to start a workflow:

• from the listing of items
• viewspecific item in list
• hit workflows
• hit appropriate workflow

Far too many clicks for my liking. I've been looking for a workaround to this and the closest I could get was a hard-coded link in a custom XSLT data view.I started it off with a standard list view, includinga Status column. Within the XSLT, I've added...

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@Status='Ready-To-Go'">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('/hard/coded/url/to/Workflows/WorkflowName/WorkflowName.aspx?List=[hard-coded GUID]&amp;TemplateID=[hard-coded GUID]','ID=', @ID)" />
</xsl:attribute>Starta workflow Manually</a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="no" select="@Status" /></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

The main problem of course is the amount of hard-coded things I put in there. Not only can I not seem to grab the URL of the sharepoint url, the list guid is hard-coded and the templateid is hard-coded.Really the only thing going for it is that ID that gets populated.

I'm sure there's many-a way to get this done with visual studio and I could probably even bundle the workflow so it could be applied elsewhere. Unfortunately, I'm unable to get into visual studio and I don't have access to change the server configuration.... Basically stuck with SPD.

If anyone has an elegant solution, please share?

Hi,
You can use EventHandler to add a hyperlink column after new ListItem created, then use this hyperlink to start a workflow.
The following link introduces how to write this EventHandler:
http://www.cnblogs.com/sumh/archive/2008/05/20/1203567.html
In that post, the hyperlink will navigate to a page(IniWrkflIP.aspx) to start workflow. If you like, you can start workflow directly from that hyperlink.

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My blog: http://xiaoshatian.cnblogs.com

Hi,
You can use EventHandler to add a hyperlink column after new ListItem created, then use this hyperlink to start a workflow.
The following link introduces how to write this EventHandler:
http://www.cnblogs.com/sumh/archive/2008/05/20/1203567.html
In that post, the hyperlink will navigate to a page(IniWrkflIP.aspx) to start workflow. If you like, you can start workflow directly from that hyperlink.

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My blog: http://xiaoshatian.cnblogs.com

How, exactly? I'm still fairly new to Sharepoint and I have a situation where I need to add either a link or a button to the rows in a webpart generated by Sharepoint from a tasklist. I've gotten to where I can add a button or list in designer by first adding a column, but I still don't know exactly how to launch the workflow. I don't want to mess with event handlers. I just need something the user can click on and run the workflow when they are ready.

Can you help point out the specifics of how to do it?

Thanks