Accessing list data from a different site in Sharepoint Designer workflow

Question

Does anyone know if it is possible to Lookup list data from a different site when creating a workflow with Sharepoint Designer 2007? The Define Workflow Lookup dialog only allows you to pick from lists in the current Sharepoint site you are creating the workflow in. Ideally I'd like to be able to pick from a list in the parent site, or a site from a given URL (eg. http://myserver/mysite)

Solution

You cannot do that with OOTB activities. However you can build a custom SharePoint designer activity to do the task you need. We usually create just a call web service activity and then we call a SharePoint we service we need.

Take a look at this CodePlex project for some custom SharePoint Designer activities.

Comments

[Alex Angas]

Unless I'm missing something it looks like the first link is to the wrong location?

[Obfuskater]

Nice link. There are some useful additions in that Sharepoint Designer Activity project - particularly the Copy List Item Extended which almost got me there.