I for to xpost this here over the past weekend. Here’s the 3rd article in a series where I write about blog posts and online articles that were especially interesting to me in the last week or so. This week’s entry in the series highlights two CodePlex projects for a potential InfoPath replacement and for […]
I’m testing a custom SharePoint Designer 2010 activity this fine Sunday afternoon and I was unexpectedly hitting a “Critical Error” when trying to launch the workflow: There has been an error while loading the form. Click Start Over to load a new copy of the form. If this error persists, contact the support team for […]
I am working out some log where employees can request vacation, sick time, etc. One validation rule requires that you must always request time off in 4 hour intervals. This is easy enough to do – use a modulo function. Modulo function tells you the remainder in division. If there is no remainder, modulo is […]
I think that many of us are occasionally presented with, for lack of a better phrase, young-child requirements. The end user really, very badly wants a certain specific look and feel, or a very specific sorting structure or a to cut out one click or menu option to ease navigation or [insert passionately held belief […]
There’s a common business scenario with InfoPath forms. We want allow people to fill out InfoPath forms and submit them to a library. We want mangers (and no one else) to have access to those forms. This question comes up now and then on the forms (e.g. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/76ccef5a-d71c-4b7c-963c-613157e2a966/?prof=required) A quick way to solve this is […]
I may be the last person to realize this, but SharePoint Online (which I often hear people say is a glorified WSS) supports InfoPath Forms Services. That’s pretty powerful stuff, especially considering that IP FS is a MOSS Enterprise feature and BPOS is something like $1.99/month for 10,000 users. Maybe it’s a little more than […]
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I’m been working on a project where I need to extract attachments from an InfoPath form. There are some good resources for parsing InfoPath forms (which are just XML files, so it’s actually quite easy). While I was building up the project, I started by downloading an InfoPath form and saving it to my local […]
This isn’t exactly a new topic, but when I needed to do it, I found a lot of “why won’t this work for me” and not too many direct answers. I hope someone finds this useful. The following bit of code will send an email using my own gmail account to do it, including attachments: […]
I have an expense entry solution for a client that leverages InfoPath and workflow. At one point during the approval process, I need to generate an email that has all of that good InfoPath data as well as the attachments themselves so that (sigh) someone can take that data and manually re-key it into an […]