Jul 07
I’ve been quite naughty recently and I’ve been taking the easy way out when it comes to putting code upgrades in. It’s very easy to drag the DLL from the dev environment and just drop it into either the Gac or the local Bin, without any thought to what happens if someone comes along and …
Jun 25
Since my last post at the end of May, my SharePoint immersion has tailed off heavily due to urgent server builds that had to meet heavy deadlines. The upshot of this is I’ve hardly touched any code this month. That coupled with a week in Gran Canaria has meant a very lean SharePoint month for …
May 29
As with a lot of the sharePoint API, the SPUtility class and more importantly the sendEMail method lacks a decent amount of documentation on its use. After a little bit of playing around with a console session, I’ve found what seems to be the best way to use this function. (For me at least.. feel …
May 08
We’ve hit an unusual problem in our estate with the SharePoint implementation. Around a month ago, a number of our users had their machines upgraded to Office 2007. Today when they tried to edit a workflow task assigned to them, the page loaded, but the browser based infopath form failed to display and IE showed …
May 08
I’ve been making some changes to the Summaries webPart this week following the successful beta with the users. The key problem I hit was an unexpected error when changing one of the selected views in the web part. I received a very helpful “One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the …
Apr 23
Well almost, Had a minor break from the work this morning to have a cracked tooth looked at, Unfortunatley it was too badly damaged and it’s had to come out.. Well the novocain or whatever they use nowadays has well and truly worn out and yours truly is hitting the Ibuprofen hard!! So, to ease …
Apr 18
Well I’ve had some fun doing the layout of the workflow onto the state machine designer page. It’s certainly a very different feel to building the Sequential style of workflows and I can understand why anyone who has developed the state machine workflows always says, ‘mess around with Sequential ones first”. There is a very …
Apr 17
The library summary webpart that I’ve been working on over the last week is now at a point where I can put it in front of the UAT board and show them the different flavours. Flexibility was the key with this part as I wanted to avoid having to keep re-writing webparts for each different …
Apr 08
I’ve been writing my own SharePoint webparts for a few months now and have been quite happy using personalisation options to provide a certain degree of control during runtime from the Edit Shared Webpart properties menu. All of these controls have either been using a text box entry or a tick box boolean, Until now …
Apr 04
I’ve been somewhat remiss recently with updating the blog, so those of you looking forward to another installment of Workflow issues and resolutions are I’m afraid out of luck this week.. The workload here at the normal place of work has gone sky high as our various clients tried to beat the end of the …