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 …
Category: General
Apr 04
Building servers?
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 …
Dec 11
Time flies!
Good lord, Xmas is upon us almost and I’ve not posted in nearly a month. Slacking on my part! but it has been a busy month, the workflow project has been live for sometime now, and as ever there have been a few bugs creeping in that need to be solved. Phase 2 is due …
Aug 22
I’m still here…
I haven’t forgotten about the blog.. I’m still here.. At the moment, the CostModel project that I’m working on has hit a crucial stage. We’re due to demo tommorrow to the Managers and I’ve only finished the main workflow. Still need to get some notifications wirtten today. I’ll be back once this is finished to …
Jul 03
Welcome.. to the real world..
Excuse the Matrix reference.. Couldn’t resist it.. But, sadly it is back to earth with a bump for me, The Sun, Sea and copious amounts of Sangria are over for another year and it’s a return to running the tip of my nose over corporate grinder once more. Well the first stage of user testing …
Jun 15
El viva Espagna!
Continuing on from the last entry, it’s been a few more quiet days on the blog as i’ve been tidying up a lot of the VBA code that is forming the core document for our Service Delivery process. None of the work has been particularly trying as I’ve covered a lot of the LDAP issues …
Jun 12
And the beat goes on… and on….
More of the same this week. The deadline for UAT has slipped slightly on this project, in the main because of trying to get a purchasing decision signed off on some third party utilities that we wish to use in the front end development. We’re looking at using CorasWorks SharePoint feature set for MOSS 2007 …
Jun 08
It’s been a while..
Well a week or so since I found an untidy solution to the Excel properties predicament. I’ll be honest, I’ve not spent a lot of time looking at that this week as I’ve had to concentrate on the functionality of the communications between the spreadsheet cost model and the actual back-end data systems that will …
May 22
VBA, Excel, SQL, LDAP and the like..
Well, it’s been a very busy week or so, I’ve really been burying my head into the Excel code thats going to form the backend of our application. Due to the nature of the data and the demands of the users, I have certain restrictions on the reference numbers that we’re using to track the …
May 14
A quiet week for the Blog..
..but not for me.. I’ve spent the last week working with Excel VBA and OLE to get a connection into our backend SQL server. Then a couple of stored procedures to generate our required indexes and voila, I almost having a working DB.. Just some tweaking to do now. For those that haven’t seen the …