(ChandraSekar) I recently got a case from a customer complaining that the UpdateAllTasks activity fails to change any of the properties of the currently active workflow tasks even though the activity executes without error.
Tag: SharePoint / BI
SharePoint 2010 BLOB Storage Myths
(JerseyBob) As I’m sure everyone can imagine we get asked a lot of questions about our offering on a daily basis across a wide range of topics. As we get closer to the launch of SharePoint 2010, those questions have started to revolve more and more around myths, misconceptions, and misstatements on
SharePoint: Prevent Accidental Overwrites when Uploading to a Library
(Mike Smith) This applies to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. The only difference is the page name, upload.aspx for SP 2007 and uploadex.aspx for SP 2010.
How to publish a Managed Metadata Service for cross-farm consumption
(Øyvind Nordnes) To be able to subscribe to content types and terms from a Managed Metadata Service in another farm, there are a few things you need to do. Although this could seem like a somewhat cumbersome procedure for accomplishing something rather simple, it’s necessary for having control of yo
List Views in SharePoint 2010: The New (and Good) Stuff
(Michael Sampson) The Microsoft SharePoint team have made some changes in the way people work with lists of documents, tasks, announcements, etc. (called “List Views”) in SharePoint 2010. There are two parts of a blog series about the changes at the SharePoint team blog: – Part 1, Introduction to
Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint
(John Hancock) Previous articles have covered some of the features of PowerPivot for Excel, and shown how PowerPivot helps users build really powerful BI applications right in Excel. We have described some of the PowerPivot for SharePoint features on this blog as well as the PowerPivot blog, so for
SharePoint: Where have my content types gone?
(Charles Lee) Have all your SharePoint site columns and content types ever mysteriously vanished from your site collection? What could cause this catastrophe to occur?
SPQuery Error: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was unhandled by user code. Cannot complete this action. Please try again.
(Corey Roth) When I get an error, I like to blog about it. Especially when the error gives you no useful information whatsoever. Now, you can get the above error in a variety of ways, but the one I am going to discuss today is when using SPQuery. I inherited some code that had some CAML queries i
Proceed Cautiously With SharePoint 2010, Analyst Says
(Deborah Gage) The final release of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 is expected soon — before summer, according to independent analyst Janus Boye — and customers and integrators have been preparing for months for this very ambitious product.
Style Individual Navigation Items for 2007 & 2010
(Erik Swenson) Here is a simple yet effective way to stylize individual top navigation items for SharePoint 2007 & 2010 just using CSS. SharePoint 2010 will need a slight modification to the master page but the same effect can be achieved. See bottom of post for 2010 implementation.