What are the primary differences between Route Entry and Move Entry? Are there specific reasons why a workflow would use one as opposed to the other?
both similar, but the Route Entry activity has move available options to use. Such as having a shortcut removed after the wait condition is satisfied and assigning metadata values and templates while moving or copying a document. You can also send emails in the Route Entry activity. All are options separate from the single activity, but it all being in one activity makes it fairly easy to configure.
Move Entry is a simple activity with a single purpose. The routing activities (Route to Folder, Route to User, Route to Group) are actually bundles of activities. They were introduced to mimic functionality that was available in Workflow 7 and that users were expecting to be a single step ("send this document to Miruna and wait for approval, email her a few times if she's not getting it done"). Behind the scenes, a routing activity contains a Move Entry, a Wait for Entry Change, an Email, an Assign Field Values, an Assign Tags and an Escalation activity.
Like Chris said, you can build all that from their individual parts, but it's a lot more steps.
Kenneth, thank you very much for your prompt reply. So, the Move Entry is relatively archaic in that the Route Entry can perform the same function, but with additional features if needed?
no, not archaic. More like a duplication of functionality you have elsewhere. What is nice is that both activities have advantages. If I know I simply need to move a file or folder, i may want to use a Move Entry activity so if I need to go back to it, I can easily, at a glance, see that I am doing nothing else in that step. Sometimes having these options means we can pick and choose things as needed.
Route entry also has the advantage of creating a shortcut elsewhere, waiting, then removing that shortcut when the activity finishes waiting. 95% of the time I use routing it's for this function.
You can do this individually but it takes a lot more steps.
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