Hi!
We are trying to build a custom approval workflow and deploy it from my development machine which has SharePoint Foundation to a beta server which has SharePoint Enterprise.
Does the deploy & development have to be done via Visual Studio on the server that will receive the deployment?
The error message below sounds like it's pointing to that scenario.
We are getting this error message on initial "Validate" of the SharePoint server when creating the project and when trying to apply a target list to the project:
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Cannot connect to SharePoint site:
...make sure the Site URL is valid, that the SharePoint site is running on the local computer, and that the current user has the necessary permission to access the site.
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I do see this thread which doesn't seem as though it's a supported approach:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/489047d1-ac1a-4325-81ef-596ba6dd59d3/remotely-deploy-a-custom-workflow?forum=sharepointcustomizationlegacy
Please advise if I should be doing development and deploy via Visual Studio on the target SharePoint server.
We would like to be able to avoid this scenario, and do all development from our own machines and not need access to the target server.