Stop and restart specific item workflows in SharePoint 2010 Using Powershell
While sending our company in a paperless direction, I found that as I published updated workflows to a library old versions were not only still running (as expected) but becoming corrupt, almost like...
View ArticleFilenames and WebDAV in SharePoint 2010
This is more of a reminder to myself than anything, and you may already be aware of this, but in case this issue is new here’s what helped me: While taking our enterprise in a paperless direction, one...
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Connecting a SharePoint 2010 List to external database table
I’ve done this plenty of times and never documented it, and one of these times I’m going to be working on something else, have to build one real quick, and forget how I did it, so i’m writing it down....
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 compatibility in IE9
SharePoint 2010 is not fully compatible with IE9. To the best of my knowledge this is due to SharePoint’s heavy dependency upon DOM expandos and other features which were available through IE8, but are...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday Phoenix 2013
If you attended my session on Connecting a SharePoint list to a SQL table for CRUD ops, thank you for coming! If you missed it, or if you wanted to review it again, my girlfriend was kind enough to...
View ArticleThe data source control failed to execute the insert command
While working on a custom form the other day, we noticed the form that was working fine was suddenly throwing the following error: “The data source control failed to execute the insert command” Without...
View ArticleManage Created & Modified info on custom form in XSLT
Just wanted to write this down so I don’t forget how to do this, if this helps someone else out even better! If you’re wanting to access the Created By, Created On, Modified By and Modified on...
View ArticleRead a SharePoint list using JavaScript
There are countless ways to read data from a SharePoint list, and also myriad methods to do this in JavaScript, but I’m going to document this one way as a place to get started, and a published...
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Complete Guide to Making and Parsing REST calls using SharePoint Designer 2013
Recently I needed a sequential workflow that makes a REST call to another website (non-SharePoint), retrieves some JSON data, parses it, and makes decisions based on that data. Oh, and I’m not allowed...
View ArticleKnow REST For the Query – SharePoint Saturday Phoenix 2014
Thank you for all who attended my session, below is the video. Big thanks to Becky Bohanon for enhancing the audio! The slide deck is available here: Slide Deck The JavaScript file that was used to do...
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