October 2008 - Posts

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30 October 08 06:29 PM | Blogging about SharePoint: Posts
Published: 10/30/2008 3:28 PM
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Bad English is Good Syntax
23 October 08 05:02 PM | Blogging about SharePoint: Posts
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In our development and integration environment, I am working on a workflow that sleeps inside a while loop.  We read the sleep interval from the web.config, and for testing have it sleep for only a minute.  However, the shortest real interval that it will sleep is the frequency of the timer (sptimerv3.exe) job that executes the workflow on wake up.  By default, it's 5 minutes. You can verify that by the stsadm -o getproperty -propertyname job-workflow -url <url to web app>.

To set it down to one minute, the syntax is "every 1 minutes between 0 and 59".  Grammatically incorrect but it works.

 

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Also, not that if you don't specify the URL parameter, you will get an xml fragment back that says the property doesn't exist.

--Michael

Published: 10/23/2008 2:02 PM
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Chicago SharePoint User Group Meeting this Thursday!
20 October 08 04:49 PM | Blogging about SharePoint: Posts
Published: 10/20/2008 1:49 PM
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Search Keyword to search for just sites: ContentClass:STS_Web
16 October 08 12:06 PM | Blogging about SharePoint: Posts
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I know I'm overdue to respond to some blog comments you all have been kind enough to leave, but in the mean time I want to share this item I came across.

I had a requirement (one of several) from a business user that had a site hierarchy with a site (Projects) that had many subsites (Project 1, Project 2, Project 3...) and wanted a searchable list of these sites.  In the process of figuring out the best way to meet this requirements, I discovered this:

You know how you can specify properties in a keyword search?  Property:PropertyValue.  Well, there is a property called ContentClass that you can use to specify sites only. The property value is STS_Web.

Without the ContentClass filter:

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With it:

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Category: MOSS 2007
Published: 10/16/2008 9:06 AM
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How do I view tasks due in the next 10 days?
04 October 08 10:47 AM | Blogging about SharePoint: Posts
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A client of mine is a project manager and wanted to create a view of his SharePoint task list that showed items due in the next 10 days.

The problem: The filter options in a view let you compare Due Date to [Today] but not to "[Today] + 10".  You can't have a formula in the "right-hand side" (bottom box) of you filter expression. We wanted to say "Due Date is less than ([Today]+10)" but it wouldn't accept the phrase [Today]+10.

However, you can create a calculated value column that uses a formula.

In other words, we wanted to say:

due date < Today + 10

but instead we can say:

due date - 10 < Today

So we added a Calculated Value column to the Tasks list.  I named the column DueDateMinusTen, and gave it the formula of "[Due Date] - 10", and said that it returned a date.  No need to add it to any views except for testing purposes. One interesting thing that we saw was that if Due Date was empty, DueDateMinusTen was 12/20/1899.  Huh?  Yes - because the null value for a date is really 1/1/1900. 

 

Now that we have the column, we can filter any of our views by using the filter expression DueDateMinusTen < [Today].

 

Oops, no time for pictures. Maybe later!

 

--Michael

Category: SharePoint – WSS and MOSS
Published: 10/4/2008 7:47 AM
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