I’m doing some work with Nintex workflows at the moment. For those of you that don’t know Nintex Workflow 2010, it’s built on the Windows Workflow Foundation, using the SharePoint workflow engine. As a quick workflow creation tool, it’s a vast improvement over SharePoint Deisgner 2010, but at the heart, it is using SharePoint workflows …
Feb 24
SPD2010 Reusable workflows with dynamic security groups through workflow lookups
Recently I worked with a client that required a central expenses process. This process was going to use a global reusable workflow process, but had to have security configured at a local level. This gave us some problems as SPD global reusable workflows don’t have any visibility of local groups during the creation phase. To …
Feb 23
Calling a WCF service with JQuery, The correct way!
I don’t subscribe to many blogs, but one I do read on a regular basis is that of @Wictor, a SharePoint MVP from Sweden. Just recently he posted an interesting article about calling a WCF service from JQuery. He was prompted to post this article in response to the original article on the SharePoint Developer’s …
Feb 08
How to get around the calculated fields with People pickers!
If you’ve spent any time using SharePoint and the calculated columns features that are available to you, it won’t have taken long to notice that their are some caveats to their use. The primary cause of pain being that lookup fields cannot be used in calculated columns. In my case the People Picker. Just to …
Jan 25
Making SharePoint workspace available to Office applications.
Bizarrely, out of the box there is no link to the Workspace within the Office clients. This needs to be added manually. To do this, click the windows Icon (The old start menu), then on your name. This will open an explorer window showing several folder Icons. Simply right click Workspaces and drag it onto …
Nov 08
Exam result and a nice holiday.
So I took my exam 70-573 a week or so ago and happily can reveal that I passed with 790. Not quite as high as I hoped, but there were a couple of curve ball questions in there. As I tweeted, Wes Hacketts’ exam guide was of great help as it listed the resources that …
Oct 26
Studying hard for 70-573 this week..
I’m taking the first of the SharePoint 2010 dev exams on Thursday of this week. I’ve been a little slow of the mark with the study for these as I’ve not really had the opportunity to do much SharePoint 2010 development work just yet. Luckily, it looks like my SP2007 skills won’t let me down …
Oct 15
Last night’s London meeting for SUGUK
So after quite a break, we had our first London meeting of the SUGUK for sometime. We were at the Mostyn Hotel, location and food kindly supplied by Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge who use this location regularly for their training courses. Unfortunately, Microsoft have decided to withdraw support for the community in the form …
Oct 05
Quiet again..
Well yes just for now.. I’ve just changed consultancies and am just coming up to speed in the new role. Expect lots of SharePoint 2010 focus from now on…