Creating Folders in WSS 3.0 (via send email to incoming mail enabled Document Library) in SharePoint Designer Workflows.

Question

I'm working on a workflow in SharePoint Designer from a list, and I want to be able to create a folder in a document library as one of the steps in the workflow.  Since there is no "Create Folder" action, I enabled incoming mail on a document library, and have this email address as the "to field" in the send mail action in the workflow.  However, the email is not getting through to the doucment library and my folders are not getting created. 

I know that the send mail action is working as I am able to send mail to myself from the workflow and alerts from SharePoint are also working.  I had an issue with McAfee blocking outgoing email because it throught it was a mass email worm, and I corrected that.  I also tried to create a user in AD that had the same email address as the document library, because I read that many people had success when they use an object in the "to field" as opposed to an email address.  The "Drop" folder in the MailRoot Directory appears to recieve the email, but does not route it to the document library to create the folder. 

Any ideas how to get the send mail action from the workflow to reach the document library or a better way to create folders via  SharePoint Designer workflow.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi

 

I’m afraid your requirement cannot be satisfied in SharePoint Designer Workflow. If you really want to achieve that, you need to write code to create a Visual Studio workflow in which you can create folders through object model.

For more information, please refer to:

http://www.imaginets.com/cs/blogs/juanl/archive/2008/07/24/creating-folders-through-sharepoint-object-model.aspx

 

Hope this helps.

 

Lu Zou