I was recently doing a SharePoint migration project and one of the tasks I was trying to do was copy SharePoint designer workflows (plus history) to a new SharePoint server. We weren’t doing a database attach in this case because we were significantly...
Following on from yesterdays post regarding problems with getting into the CA site, today we got on with the job of looking at Web Analytics, and the reports that we can provide to end users. So we checked the Web Analytics reports and could see good...
New with InfoPath 2010 is a People Picker control, this acts like the People Picker in SharePoint and allows you to choose contacts from AD. I was using this control recently and wanted to promote the chosen person value to a list when the form...
Most SharePoint 2010 solutions will have some form of workflow associated with them. Workflows written in SharePoint designer can be powerful, but tricky to troubleshoot if they do not work correctly. Some workflows will complete but not perform as expected...
Body: In a recent workflow, I was challenged with making sure that when tasks get assigned, they are never due on a weekend or holiday. The following is the solution that I came up with. It entails creating a lookup list of every day of the year. This...
Body: In SharePoint 2010 workflow (the enterprise version), there is a great new task process designer in workflows. It basically lets you create a workflow inside of a workflow. One thing that I came across this week was a task that needed to be assigned...
Body: Many times in approval workflows, the first approval needs to go to the employee’s manager, and then the next approval is supposed to go to the VP of that department. The VP isn’t necessarily going to be your manager’s manager, though. In SharePoint...