Monthly Archives: Otsailaren 2008

Irtenbidea (Ordena): Ezarri Lehentasuna zeregin bat SharePoint Designer erabiliz

Agertoki hau bezalako enpresa bat daukat:

  • Erabiltzaile fitxategiak dokumentu liburutegi bat dokumentu bat.
  • Eduki mota bat aukeratzen zuen eta meta datuak sartzen da, behar bezala. Meta datu eremu bat da, bandera bat, "Urgent".
  • Honek SharePoint Designer workflow duten abiarazleak, beste gauza batzuen artean, uses the "Collect Data from a User" Ekintza.

"Collect Data from a User" creates an item in a task list requesting approval for that document.

I needed to create a view of the task list that showed urgent requests for approval.

Irtenbidea: Put the word "URGENT:" into the title of these tasks.

I would have preferred to specify the priority field directly. Hala eta guztiz ere, I was unable to do that for several reasons:

  1. The collect data action does not provide a mechanism to update any field other than title (and those additional fields for which you want to collect data).
  2. The "assign a to do item" action has the same problem.
  3. It’s possible to insert an item into a list (I.E. insert an item into the task list directly) but this not a blocking action. That means that the workflow will not wait for the user to complete that task.

I considered a few approaches before (thankfully) realizing we could just put "urgent" in the title.

  1. Start a workflow on the task list itself so that when a new task is created, it somehow cross references back to the document that started the first workflow, pull out the urgent flag value and update priority as needed.
  2. Do something similar with an event receiver. On create of the task, locate the associated document and update priority as needed.
  3. Use the "create list item" action in conjunction with the "wait for field change" action and an event receiver. If we create a list item, we can specify all the fields we want. Use an event receiver to update the original item when the user completes the task and the "wait for field change" action’s condition would be met and the workflow would proceed. (For some reason, I had more or less settled on this approach before wisely deciding to walk away for a while).

There is a drawback to my solution (aside from the obvious fact that only the text of the title indicates urgency). Since "collect feedback" only accepts hard coded title names, I need to use two different collect feedback actions whose only difference is that hard coded title.

Baina, at least there’s a solution that does not require event receivers or custom SPD actions.

If someone has solved this in a more clever way, please let me know.

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Igandea Funny: Zure Son mantenduz Bere Oinetatik On

One of the many joys I take in being the parent of a ten year old boy is finding new ways to make him laugh or think a little differently about questions and things in the world. I’ve used these techniques over the years:

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Misconstrue bere galderak:

Bere: Zer egun da?

Dad: Ko Asteazkena bezperan.

S: Ez, zer eguna hilaren da?

D: Oh, dena 4 Jan ondoren egun 25.

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Tickle zion, eta esan zion gelditzeko denean, barre egiten zuen geldialdiak egingo zara.

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Joan eskaileretatik behera Telebista gela eta iragarriko, "It’s good to be the daddy." Gero, pick up zion sofan lekuen beroa lortzeko eta kanal aldatzeko zerbait ona, Scifi kanal bezala.

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Read stories out loud. Insert ridiculous sentences in the middle of the story. My favorite is to add "killing him instantly" when the main characters encounters some minor trouble. Adibidez, "the knife slipped in his hand, bere indizea hatz ebaketa, hura hil eta berehala." Nothing quite gets your son out of a complacent and passive listening mode as the main character being killed instantly.

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Read stories incorrectly. Read sentences backward. The best part of this is that the first couple of times I did this, my son thought he was helping me out by pointing out that I wasn’t reading the words in the right order. The down side is that he really doesn’t want me to read to him any more.

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Go to Burger King for lunch. My son would eat BK morning, night and day if we let him. When going, kontatu zion, "I know you hate going there, but we simply have no choice." When he tries to explain that he loves BK, talk over him and say things like "We don’t have time to argue about it! We’re going and I don’t want to have a discussion!"

(Honek gogorarazten dit nire Borg gogoko txantxa du: "Borger King: We do it our way. Your way is irrelevant." hahaha!)

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Ireki liburu bat, orriaren 9 eta esan, "hmm, that’s an odd page".

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Fill the world with arch enemies. "We’re going to run quick over toe 7-11, arch-enemy of 11-7".

"Your aunt lives in Ringwood, arku to Squarewood herriko etsaia."

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Sortu gidatuko dugu Massachusetts New Jersey-tik hainbat aldiz urte bat hartzen du, eta, askotan, buruz 5 hours door to door. As we arrive home and pull into the driveway say, "oh, Ahaztu dut, to Home horiek marra azkar bat egin behar dugu."

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Noiz TV show batean, indarkeriazko pasarte bat ikusi (besteak beste, Heroes gisa), esan zure semea, "some times, lanean, I need to destroy my enemies by burning them alive using the powers of my mind. I don’t like doing it, baina, zer egin behar duzu behar duzu."

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Noiz txarra beldurrezko filmak behaketa (see "It’s good to be the Daddy" Goiko), ascribe improbable motives to the evil character. Esate baterako, tell your son that the reason Jason is so angry is because he wants some cake and they won’t let him have any.

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Explain phone numbers incorrectly. Instead of telling your son to dial "201-111-2222", tell him it’s "2-011-1-12222".

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Zer da trikimailu erabiltzen duzu?

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Gonbidatua blogak?

It seems fairly common in the political blogging world for a given blog to host a "guest blogger". When I’m in political blog land I must be wearing a different pair of eye glasses because it never occurred to me that "guest blogging" might make sense for a technical blog like mine. That is, irakurri nuen post hau arte Khipple Kanwal arabera gorako SharePoint Buzz onena- Urtarrilaren 2008.

Gainean Thinking, Jende asko egon liteke hor SharePoint lur duten itch elkarrekin jarri artikulu bat dela uste dut, labur edo luzea, tekniko edo enpresa-bideratutako, etc, but don’t run their own blog for all the usual reasons. If you’re one of those people, I’d be happy to host it. You can reach me via email or leave a comment. I haven’t thought through any kind of guidelines, baina SharePoint inguruan bideratutako dudala nahi nuke suposatzen dut, baina ere atsegin dut behaketa pertsonal batzuk bota kontsultatzeko buruz orain eta ondoren,. I’m also trying to publish a "Igandea Funny" Astero, eta nago mugaturik agortuko ideia hori egiteko.

Zaren erregular blogger bat badago, baina blogeatzen gonbidatu batekin esperimentatu nahi, Behin betiko naiz hori ireki gehiegi, either as a host or a guest 🙂

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