April 2007 archive

Result!!

Well I took the exam.. And found that the study work I put in has paid off.. oh and probably the last 9 months playing with the Beta and the RTM versions.. 890 points I got, with a pass mark of 700, so I was happy. I think my knowledge of Kerberos and Multi/Unicasting is …

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Quiet huh?

Well that’s cos I locked myself away for a few days to study for 70-631 – Windows Sharepoint Services – Configuring and Administering.. I’m due to take it in 1.5 hours and I don’t feel at all confident.. grin

Workflow design in Visual Studio 2005

Well that was an interesting few hours this afternoon following Nick’s article on creating workflow within Visual Studio 2005 for SharePoint. I got as far as creating all the InfoPath structures, and then when I went to edit the workflow.cs in Workflow Designer, I was faced with a Class Script and Nick had a pretty …

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Infopath and workflow activities…

I’ve decided to mvoe on from getting the info out of Excel using custom properties. It’s possible that I may be able to use infopath forms instead with workflows to do this, so to this end, I’m following a couple of blog posts written by Nick Swan (He who runs the SUGUK) on developing and …

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Wow.. mid April..?

What a busy few weeks this has been. Unfortunatley, not much of it has been spent on SharePoint as I’ve had some server deliveries to meet. I’m back on SharePoint this week now. Still trying to sort out how to get dates out of the Excel spreadsheets and then displaying this and other data in …

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Excel 2003 properties in a Moss 2007 doc library

One of the problems that I’ve hit recently is how to pass customer properties from an Excel spreadsheet so that they become column entries in a document library. Now SharePoint allows you to pass text values quite happily as linked content, however it doesn’t like passing numbers or dates. Well, I’ve found a way round …

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