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Sunday, June 29, 2008
The End of SharePoint Conference
Yes, it ended on Saturday and today is Sunday. I was exhausted after I came back and barely finished my dinner.
It went very well yesterday. Vanessa Williams (not the one you saw on TV) gave her key note speech regarding her experience to implement SharePoint. You may want to check her blog for more information.
Then I joined the session of lessons learned from an administrator but had to leave early to setup my machine for my presentation. Brian Whipple from PHE gave us his experience from a PM prospective. Then I presented some simple, no code ideas to use customized workflows to automate some business process. It was a great experience and I had everyone out for lunch On Time !
After lunch, I joined The Importance of Taxonomy for SharePoint Deployments session and hooked with the speaker Mack Sigman. I told him I would like to get more story from him and those have nothing to do with IT or SharePoint. He was in the US Navy and I would like to write some story if it is possible.
I sat in shortly in the next two sessions since the topics changed and I had chances to chat with others. At the end, we presented the check to Children Miracle Network and back on the road driving.
According to Gary, the next conference is November 7th and 8th 2008. If you missed this one, come join us and share your experience together.
It went very well yesterday. Vanessa Williams (not the one you saw on TV) gave her key note speech regarding her experience to implement SharePoint. You may want to check her blog for more information.
Then I joined the session of lessons learned from an administrator but had to leave early to setup my machine for my presentation. Brian Whipple from PHE gave us his experience from a PM prospective. Then I presented some simple, no code ideas to use customized workflows to automate some business process. It was a great experience and I had everyone out for lunch On Time !
After lunch, I joined The Importance of Taxonomy for SharePoint Deployments session and hooked with the speaker Mack Sigman. I told him I would like to get more story from him and those have nothing to do with IT or SharePoint. He was in the US Navy and I would like to write some story if it is possible.
I sat in shortly in the next two sessions since the topics changed and I had chances to chat with others. At the end, we presented the check to Children Miracle Network and back on the road driving.
According to Gary, the next conference is November 7th and 8th 2008. If you missed this one, come join us and share your experience together.
Friday, June 27, 2008
First Day of SharePoint Conference
Today is the first day of Northern Virginia Regional SharePoint Conference at Dulles Holiday Inn. There were more vendors there, more people there, more speakers (including myself) and more tracks. Cool day.
There were three tracks for Developers, Administrators or Managers. I followed the developer track though I haven't done any heavy weight coding for a while. However, this is a better way (at least to myself) to learn ideas from others, not necessary has to be done with coding.
Ed Hild expanded his using workflows to do site provision and it was one of the topic made my eye opened. This was the third time he talked about the same topics and he added lots more than I expected. Especially he used event handler and out-of-box approval workflow to do the same thing without deploy a VS.Net workflow. I also like ed's style a lot. He has the whole thing on his blog, go check it out.
Also exciting was met some people from a training more than two years and exchange ideas. This is a very long day (from 7 AM to almost 6 PM) but very good one.
I am going to have a short speech to present some no-codes workflow examples tomorrow. If you are coming, join us and have fun.
See ya!
There were three tracks for Developers, Administrators or Managers. I followed the developer track though I haven't done any heavy weight coding for a while. However, this is a better way (at least to myself) to learn ideas from others, not necessary has to be done with coding.
Ed Hild expanded his using workflows to do site provision and it was one of the topic made my eye opened. This was the third time he talked about the same topics and he added lots more than I expected. Especially he used event handler and out-of-box approval workflow to do the same thing without deploy a VS.Net workflow. I also like ed's style a lot. He has the whole thing on his blog, go check it out.
Also exciting was met some people from a training more than two years and exchange ideas. This is a very long day (from 7 AM to almost 6 PM) but very good one.
I am going to have a short speech to present some no-codes workflow examples tomorrow. If you are coming, join us and have fun.
See ya!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Site
Microsoft just announced their latest SharePoint development resource web site: Microsoft SharePoint Developer Site.
I haven't really explore the whole site but you will be able to find vidoes, whait papaers, demo and other things.
Enjoy the site.
I haven't really explore the whole site but you will be able to find vidoes, whait papaers, demo and other things.
Enjoy the site.
Visual Studio extensions for WSS V 1.2 is Available
The Version 1.2 of Visual Studio extensions for WSS is now available for download. You can find the file here.
This is the first version of VsWSS to support Visual Studio .Net 2008 and only 2008.
If you are using 2005, then do not install this version.
Enjoy it.
This is the first version of VsWSS to support Visual Studio .Net 2008 and only 2008.
If you are using 2005, then do not install this version.
Enjoy it.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
How to Move Customized Workflow Between Sites
If you have been using SharePoint Designer 2007 to develop customized workflow, you may already know the official documentations told us we could not re-deploy it to another site. If you are working in a development environment, it would be pretty hard to recreate the same workflow with lots If loops and conditions.
So, what can you do? I will show you how to move your workflow from site to site or, server to server.
After you complete workflow development and testing and ready to move, go to the list setting pages and save this list as a template.
In the save page, remember to save it with contents. Yes, workflow is part of the contents and can be saved into the template file.
Move the template to the site or sever you like to use. Create the list from the template to the new site.
If your design includes other lists to save history or interact with this new list, remember to create them to the same new site.
Once you are ready with all the creation, open the site with SharePoint Designer. Open the workflow and check the list name is shown correctly or you only see the GUID number.
This extra step is especially important when you create the new list with a different name. Make changes to the list name and update the workflow.
Now you should be able to use the workflow now.
Enjoy it.
So, what can you do? I will show you how to move your workflow from site to site or, server to server.
After you complete workflow development and testing and ready to move, go to the list setting pages and save this list as a template.
In the save page, remember to save it with contents. Yes, workflow is part of the contents and can be saved into the template file.
Move the template to the site or sever you like to use. Create the list from the template to the new site.
If your design includes other lists to save history or interact with this new list, remember to create them to the same new site.
Once you are ready with all the creation, open the site with SharePoint Designer. Open the workflow and check the list name is shown correctly or you only see the GUID number.
This extra step is especially important when you create the new list with a different name. Make changes to the list name and update the workflow.
Now you should be able to use the workflow now.
Enjoy it.
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