Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

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Automatic Login

You can configure Workflow studio to login to a specific server/database with command-line arguments. Create a shortcut to wfs.exe that contains the server and database parameters as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Citrix\Workflow Studio\wfs.exe" server sql1 database wfdb

The parameters are not case sensitive and if they fail to connect the login screen will be displayed.

Renaming a workflow

If you need to rename a workflow you can download the Stand-alone Workflow Designer from the Workflow Studio SDK page. This utility provides access to a version of the Workflow Designer that works with workflows on the file system instead of the SQL database. There is a File...Save As option that will allow you to rename a workflow. Be careful using this utility - if you save a workflow with an invalid name (names are used in the workflow code) then you will render the workflow unusable.

Strong Name

This isn't really directly a Workflow Studio tip, but these are useful PowerShell scripts to get strong names for use with the Workflow Studio automation cmdlets.

Get the strong name for a specific assembly by filename
[System.Reflection.AssemblyName]::GetAssemblyName("C:\Program Files\Citrix\Workflow Studio\WFS.exe").FullName

Get the strong name for all assemblies in the GAC
[appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() | sort -property fullname | format-table fullname