I’ve noticed that people seem to be waiting until the last minute to register for SharePoint Shop Talk sessions. Last Thursday, at about 11:45AM, we had nine people register, which is a very small number. However, at one point, we had 18 or 20 people signed in, so at least nine people signed up for […]
SharePoint Shop Talk registration is up and ready for tomorrow. We have a few questions teed up that address some management issues (dev/test/prod and syncing up service packs), email notifications (how to select people to email based on metadata of a document) and some discussion around using InfoPath forms services in an FBA environment. As […]
I have an expense approval process that I need to implement using InfoPath in a forms based authentication (FBA) environment using forms services (web based InfoPath). There are two approval groups and the process works like this: User fills out an expense report and submits it for approval. That triggers an email to first level […]
[Note: This article cross-posted to End User SharePoint here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/09/09/sharepoint-a-case-study-in-ask-the-expert/] Sometimes, when you’re working as a consultant (as a profession, or in a consultative role within your company), you find yourself living in an Onion story. The Onion has a series of articles called “Ask an [expert] about [some problem]”. This follows the famous “Dear […]
SharePoint Shop Talk continues this Thursday at 12:30 PM EDT to 1:30PM EDT. This will be our 5th call I believe. SharePoint Shop Talk works like this: A panel of SharePoint Experts answer questions. This week the panel includes Laura Rogers, Natalya Voskresenskaya, Harry Jones and me. Any SharePoint question is fair game. Send or […]
(Note: this article was cross-posted here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1912) Update 09/01/09: Based on twitter feedback, I need to clarify that InfoPath is supported in the sense that BPOS provides forms libraries. What I mean when I write "not supported in any way" is that InfoPath forms services functions are not supported. That means that you can’t publish […]
[Note: this blog post is cross posted at Mark Miller’s site here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1897] One of my company’s more unusual clients is a New York City doctor who is a leader in his particular field of medicine (eye care). Like many doctors, he has a strong interest in research. He wanted to do some research on […]
I was working on an InfPath form today and ran up against an old friend, “Unhandled exception when rendering form System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file while parsing Name has occurred.” This happened to me a long time ago and I don’t know what exactly I did to resolve it. Honestly, I think that I had […]
One of my clients worked with a previous contractor to build out a small but useful HR application for the enterprise. That contractor used SharePoint Designer to implement the workflow portion of the solution. It’s a bit of a mess. For instance, there are nine SPD workflows in support of a single logical workflow process […]
I’m still living in InfoPath Forms world and I needed to make one of those “small” changes to a form that, unfortunately, breaks a naming convention I adopted with it two weeks ago. I thought to myself, “someone is going to look at this thing a year from now and say, ‘What was Paul thinking? […]