Recently I created a web template and as part of the provisioning process i create various pages and assign a workflow to a list. I have a listviewwebpart that points to the list that i have attached the workflow to. I want to show the workflow column in this view but the workflow column is not added to the list until a workflow has been initiated.
Is there a way that you can attach a column to the list and then update the workflow to use that column so that it's available to add to my view when it is provisioned?
I found the only way to workaround this problem is during provisioning I have some code that creates an item in the list, starts the workflow and delete everything after that. Thge column will be available after that as expected.
I know it's hacky, but it worked for me. I am curious to check if someone knows a better way.