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There's a common business scenario like this: User fills out an InfoPath form. Submits form. Long-running workflow process kicks off. While the workflow is running, we don't want anyone to change the content of the form. This office.microsoft.com example describes how to create a separate ''view'' and mark the whole view as read-only.  ...

In the last several months, a dozen or more folks from across the planet have been emailing me and asking the general question, ''How do I learn SharePoint?'' I'm hardly authoritative, but I've had some success (and trying to get better all the time) so I thought I'd document my personal road map.  Others may find it valuable. Before I do ...

At the New Jersey SharePoint User Group meeting last night, Microsoft Sr. product specialist DuWayne Harrison presented Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007.  DuWayne was great (and he was supported by one or two colleagues from the audience whose names I don't recall).  Up until last night, I have never heard of DPM. I'm not a ...

As many people know, the Employee Training template provided by Microsoft here has a bug that we can reproduce following these steps: Create a class with a max size of 10 students. Register --> Total available seats properly decrements by one.  Result: 9 available seats. Unregister: --> Bug.  Total available seats should ...

I will be speaking with my colleague, Natalya Voskresenskaya, at the New York SharePoint Users Group meeting Wednesday May 7th. Thanks to Bob Fox for throwing our names into the hat and helping us get this opportunity! Our overall topic is the Content Query Web Part and we hope to give some useful information to two distinct audiences: ...

This is a continuation in my FAST coding mini-series for SharePoint folk.  The bit of code below executes a search for the term ''test'' in FAST via a Console application.  Obviously, it's a hop, skip and jump away to wrap this logic inside a web part or application page:  using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using ...

  Here is some code that shows all available views from a FAST server based on the named QRServer (the server process with which we communicate).  I offer this up to give you all a taste of what it's like to use the provided FAST API.  using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using ...

I've been lucky to have an opportunity to work on a FAST <--> SharePoint integration project and thought I'd continue to share my limited experience with the community. Microsoft is in the process of purchasing FAST.  I don't know anything about the schedule except that it should be finished in the ''2nd quarter'' which I assume means ...

    Last week I worked on a pretty basic Sharepoint requirement but while developing the solution I came across few interesting things which I am going to share here.   Requirement:The overall requirement was to provide a document sharing web application which can be accessed by different types of users with different ...

I'm giving this post a slightly oddball ''Observed Behavior'' lead since I'm a little leery of drawing conclusions from it.  SPD workflows are ... temperamental. People are often asking / wondering / fretting over moving SPD workflows from one place to another.  Today, I followed these steps and made these observations: I created a ...