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Part 1 In this first section we will start creating our SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow. Our focus here is the “Call HTTP Web Service” action. We will be using and Ebay web service for this example. The response from the web service is in...
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Introductions: Hello all, my name is Sam Chung and I am a Program Manager for SharePoint Designer. I’m very proud to introduce everyone to one of our biggest investment for SharePoint Designer 2013, which is the Visual Designer. Before we begin...
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My recent attempts to configure the Windows Azure Workflow service (Workflow 1.0 Beta) with a SQL Server alias didn't go so well. If you're playing with Workflow 1.0 Beta, stay away from aliases!
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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...
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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...
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Just a quick blog to go over which features should be enabled for Approval tasks in SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows. Scenario: Project Server – PWA. Workflow being created within a Project Site. Features enabled at the site collection (PWA):...
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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...
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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...
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Thanks to sharepointszu for this lovely title quote. After 3 days at the European SharePoint Conference, it’s been really enjoyable meeting people and learning in such an open and friendly environment. I feel I’ve learned far more about SharePoint than...
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Last session of the day…time for some entertainment with Mike Fitzmaurice (@mikefitz). Let’s create some custom workflow doing rock, scissors, paper. Whole audience was invited to send in their casts live.
We started with a custom list with a title and...
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I’m grateful to Patrick Stalljohann and colleagues from RWTH Aachen University in Germany for the idea that SharePoint can be used to validate and correct learner exercises / assignments in their poster at the 2011 International Computer Assisted Assessment...
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A common thing I do for most clients is to create a unique alphanumeric ID that is consistent in length with pre-filled zeros. Risk list alphanumeric ID example: RSK0001 However, as has been documented many times (link); you cannot use the ID column of...
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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...
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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...
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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...