arquivos mensuais: Febreiro 2008

Solución (tipo de): Establecer prioridade nunha tarefa Usando o SharePoint Design

Eu teño un escenario de negocios coma este:

  • Un usuario carga un documento a unha biblioteca de documentos.
  • Ela selecciona un tipo de contidos e entra meta datos polo que sexa. Un dos campos de datos de meta é unha bandeira, "Urgent".
  • Isto desencadea un fluxo de traballo do SharePoint Design que, entre outras cousas, uses the "Collect Data from a User" acción.

"Collect Data from a User" crea un elemento nunha lista solicitando a aprobación tarefa para aquel documento.

Eu precisaba crear unha visualización da lista de tarefas que amosa as solicitudes urxentes de aprobación.

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

I would have preferred to specify the priority field directly. Con todo, Eu era capaz de facelo por varias razóns:

  1. A recollida de datos acción non ofrece un mecanismo para actualizar calquera outro campo de título (e os campos adicionais para o que quere recadar datos).
  2. The "assign a to do item" acción ten o mesmo problema.
  3. É posible inserir un elemento nunha lista (i.e. introducir un elemento da lista de tarefas directamente) but this not a blocking action. That means that the workflow will not wait for the user to complete that task.

Considerei algunhas enfoques antes (agradecidamente) realizing we could just put "urgent" no título.

  1. Iniciar un fluxo de traballo na lista de tarefas a si mesmo de xeito que, cando unha nova tarefa créase, que dalgún xeito cruzar referencias ao seu documento, que comezou o primeiro fluxo de traballo, pull out the urgent flag value and update priority as needed.
  2. Do something similar with an event receiver. On create of the task, atopar o documento asociado e actualizar prioridade que corresponda.
  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. (Por algunha razón, Eu tiña máis ou menos resolto sobre esta visión antes sabios decide afastarse por un tempo).

Hai unha desvantaxe para a miña solución (ademais do feito evidente de que o texto do título indica urxencia). Since "collect feedback" só acepta nomes de título codificado, I need to use two different collect feedback actions whose only difference is that hard coded title.

Pero, polo menos hai unha solución que non require receptores de eventos ou accións SPD personalizados.

Se alguén xa resolveu isto dun xeito máis intelixente, por favor me aviso.

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Domingo divertido: Mantendo o seu Fillo na punta dos pés

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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Interpretar mal as súas preguntas:

A súa: Que día é hoxe?

Pai: Un día antes do mércores.

S: Non, what day of the month is it?

D: Oh, it’s 4 days after Jan 25.

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Tickle him and tell him you’ll stop when he stops laughing.

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Go down stairs to the TV room and announce, "It’s good to be the daddy." Entón, pick him up to get the warm spot on the couch and change the channel to something good, like the Scifi channel.

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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. Por exemplo, "the knife slipped in his hand, cutting his index finger, killing him instantly." 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, tell him, "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!"

(This reminds me of my favorite Borg joke: "Borger King: We do it our way. Your way is irrelevant." hahaha!)

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Open a book to page 9 and say, "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, arch enemy to the town of Squarewood."

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We drive up to Massachusetts from New Jersey several times a year and it often takes about 5 hours door to door. As we arrive home and pull into the driveway say, "oh, I forgot, we need to make a quick dash to Home Depot."

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When watching a violent episode in a TV show (such as Heroes), tell your son, "some times, at work, I need to destroy my enemies by burning them alive using the powers of my mind. I don’t like doing it, but you gotta do what you gotta do."

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When watching bad horror movies (see "It’s good to be the Daddy" arriba), ascribe improbable motives to the evil character. Por exemplo, 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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What tricks do you use?

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Blogging Visitante?

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, ata eu ler este post por Khipple Kanwal sobre a O Mellor do SharePoint zumbido- Xaneiro 2008.

Pensando niso, Creo que podería haber unha chea de xente alí fóra, no SharePoint rexión que ten a coceira para montar un artigo, curto ou longo, negocio técnico ou máis orientada, 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, pero supoño que quero que sexa orientado arredor de SharePoint, pero eu tamén gosto de xogar en algunhas observacións persoais sobre consultoría agora e entón. I’m also trying to publish a "Domingo divertido" Cada semana e eu son obrigado a quedar sen ideas para que.

Se vostede é un blogueiro regular xa, pero quere probar con blogs invitado, Eu sempre estou aberto a iso tamén, either as a host or a guest 🙂

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