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7/25/2008I need to start blogging on some of hte cool things you can do with SharePoint Designer!! Here are some of the topics I plan to blog on, just need to get the screen captures done:
- Using an auxiliary SharePoint list to control workflow email distributions based upon another SharePoint list's columns
- Using SharePoint Designer to build custom edit and insert forms - this is more of a tip
- We've put together a really COOL solution based upon the free tool from Microsoft, Logparser, to nightly parse in our production IIS logs into SQL Server and then build some nifty SQL Server Reporting Services reports against some of the data - to supplement the highly lacking SharePoint Usage Analysis reports.
Hopefully I'll get some of these blogs out soon.
Meanwhile, here's the topic I'm currently struggling with in SharePoint:
I've built quite a few lists that "RELATE" back to a MASTER list. All of the lists have a column in common (think foreign key and primary key!). I've seen and heard that we can JOIN SharePoint lists in SharePoint Designer. I've tried that, and while I can get some joining going on, I can't get it to work right. The issue is when I want to SORT or FILTER one of the joined lists. I can't get the Table properties that I normally use in SPD to have the sort or filter take effect. I've found others struggling with this same issue. My current stab is towards making a copy of the first list, apply filters and sort criteria to that copy, then join it to the second list. More later on the outcome..... 6/2/2008If you're at TechEd Dev, drop by the certification study hall and say "hi"! Looks like they're expecting around 4000 at Dev week, maybe twice that next week at ITPro week. There are a lot of give-aways in the certification area - and a raffle every day for a Zune - so come on by!!
Oh yea - and for the person who passes the most exams in the week, a free xBox 360! 5/27/2008
I'm off to TechEd - Developers in a few days. I had already signed up for a full day of Train-The-Trainer the Saturday after TechEd at the Orlando Convention Center - and now I've found from Andrew Connell's blog that there is a FULL day of SharePoint put on by the FL user groups the Sunday after TechEd Dev! Here are the details: http://www.devfish.net/articles/inbetween/session_detail.aspx?shortname=sps_dotnetu
Of course, I signed up - gotta get in every last minute before I fly home that evening!! 5/14/2008
Don't know how I managed to get myself so tied up, but the next several weeks are going to be very busy - and challenging to fit around a busy work schedule!
Tomorrow, May 15th is our monthly HRSSUG meeting. This month is part two of our 2008 Launch and we also have a speaker from Mindsharp - Corro'll Driskell - to talk to us about InfoPath and SharePoint! In addition, TekSystems is hosting the meeting (pizza) and we have the usual Launch SWAG to raffle off.
Then Saturday, May 17th, is the No Va Code Camp. I'll be speaking on integrating SQL Server Reporting Services (including SQL Server 2008) and SharePoint.
Tuesday, May 20th, is the Microsoft Launch event in Richmond. I'm working the PASS and INETA booths there.
Whew! Then a 3-day holiday weekend (Memorial Day), and the following Friday, May 30th I'm off to TechEd in Orlando for a week. I'll be working the Microsoft Certification Study Hall while at TechEd.
Give me a shout if anyone will be at any of these events!
5/12/2008
I'm really becoming a Code Camp junkie!! But I'm meeting a GREAT group of people at them - so I'm hooked! I'll be speaking at the Northern Va Code Camp Saturday, May 17th on Intgerating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint - two of my favorite technologies!!! If you're in the area and have time, sign up here: http://www.novacodecamp.org/ Looking forward to seeing the regular gang! The event is at Microsoft's Technology Center in Reston, Va - a nice facility to visit. 3/22/2008If it's still open, you can sign up for the new Central VA (Richmond) SharePoint User Group here:
But last I heard we had over 135 folks signed up - and finding a place to accomodate us all is becoming a real issue - as is food.
BUt in case you're interested, here's the details:
This is your invitation to the inaugural meeting of the Richmond SharePoint User Group! Due to the overwhelming demand by customers in the Richmond and Central Virginia areas, we will be holding regular meetings to present and share information about SharePoint products and technologies.
The first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 27th from 6 - 8:30pm at
The Place
4036–C Cox Road
Glen Allen,VA23060
Our speaker for this meeting is Tamir Orbach, Enterprise Search Specialist from Microsoft. Tamir will cover topics related to SharePoint and search as well as the many changes that are forthcoming in the products.
We will give away several prizes including books, software, and virtual disk sets that contain MOSS training. There’s plenty to go around! Pizza and beverages will be provided as well.
If you can come, please RSVP here so we can get an accurate count of attendees.
Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone else you think may be interested.
We hope to see you there!!! Just found out I'm one of the MCTs they've picked to work at Tech Ed - in exchange for a free admission! Cool!! I've had a lot of conferences this year- but there's ALWAYS room for Tech Ed!
Anyone else going to be there??? Whew! I just got back to the Beach (where I'm staying in FL) - after speaking at 2 sessions in the Orlando Code Camp. This was a GERaT Code Camp - but it was sure hard for me. I've been super, super busy - had our user group Launch the day before I flew to FL - and had my primary laptop blow out on me at the launch so I arrived in FL with literally nothing prepared (other than a slide deck - and we all know slides don't cut it at a Code Camp!!) Anyway, I pulled an all nighter Firday night, drove the hour over to the Code Camp location and managed to get through my session on SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint integration without too much trouble - although I didn't have a working demo to show. I was however nearly sick with worry about my afternoon session on extending the COdePlex Color Calendar - because I knew my virtual wasn't confgiured adequately AND it's a new topic for me - so nothing I could rely on my experience to talk on. So taking advice from my fellow Code Camp speakers, I just let the audience know I wasn't prepared to speak on coding the color calendar, gave attendees an opportunity to cut out, and demoed the use of the Color Calendar along with building Workflows using SharePoint Designer - something I DO know about! All in all, given the all-nighter and stress of having my laptop die on my the day before I flew to FL, it didn't go so bad. Thanks to all who put up with my ill-prepared sessions. I enjoyed discussing SharePoint topics with you all! ANd thanks to a great bunch of people int he Central Fl .NET community. |
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