Monthly Archives: Janúar 2008

Blog Stats

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I thought some people might be interested in my blog’s statistics. You can use mine as a benchmark to compare your own.

I’m running my blog on windows live spaces. They collect stats for me and I don’t know any way to control that. It’s good as far as it goes, but it’s fairly limited in that I can’t do much actual analysis with it. I’d love, til dæmis, to be able to generate a listing of my most frequently hit posts but I can’t do that without a prohibitive manual process. If someone knows better, please tell me.

Live spaces status tell me: total hits for the day, total hits for the week and total hits since day zero. It also tells me what people did to get to my blog (e.g. google, MSDN forum link, o.fl.).

In some ways, a "hit" er augljóst. If you’re reading this sentence right now, you’ve almost certainly registered as a single hit.

RSS is a little confusing. On one hand, I see individual RSS hits all day long. En, I also see RSS "sweeps". A sweep is when I see 20 eða 30 RSS hits all within a one or two second window. I assume these are automated things like google checking in on my site, vafra kannski annars fólks … not sure. They are definitely some kind of automated process. I cannot tell, þó, how many of my total hits are automated and how many have an actual human on the other side. I would guess at least 100 smellir á dag eru sjálfvirk.

Á að tölurnar!

Ég skrifaði fyrstu bloggfærslu mína á júlí 27, 2007.

Ég hef skrifað um 60 bloggfærslur síðan, meira en 50 sem tengjast beint til SharePoint.

Ég byrjaði að halda utan um af hits mínum í töflureikni á hverjum degi í lok september.

Mánaðarlega Byrjar:

Fyrstu viku: Total Hits
Október 1,234
Nóvember 2,162
Desember 3,071
Janúar 2008 4,253

Samtals mánuð

Mánuður Total Hits
Október 6,620
Nóvember 11,110
Desember 13,138

High Marks Water

Tegund Total Hits
Best Day 958
Best Vika 4,253
Total Hits frá fyrsta degi Zero 42,438

Ég hef áhuga á öðrum’ stats. If you care to share yours in the comments, skaltu ekki!

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Sunnudagsmorgun Funny: “Já, já, já. Blah, bla, bla.”

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Um sex árum síðan, fjögurra ára sonur minn og ég vorum uppi að horfa á Discovery Channel "shark attacks" sérstakt (hugsanlega þetta). He was very young at the point and I was always worried what he might see on a show like this and how he might take it. I didn’t want him to develop, til dæmis, allir sérstök ótta að vatni eða blab eitthvað óviðeigandi við vini sína og hugsanlega valdið barn vin net sitt til að koma hrun niður.

Discovery handles these kinds of subjects very well. It’s not about creating a ótti við eitthvað, but rather to show how unusual it is for sharks to attack humans.

Svo, we’re watching it and there is this one particularly scary attack involving a small girl. As Discovery is building the drama of the attack, sonur minn (sem hefur alltaf verið mjög jumpy samt), is getting very excited. I make some noises about how unusual it is for sharks to attack people, and how bad the poor girl must feel. I’m trying to explain that people recover from these events and become stronger for it. Hins, I had misinterpreted his excitement. He was not worried about the girl at all. Staðinn, en clapping hendur hans, hann segir mér, "The sharks love it! It’s terrific. It’s wonderful. Its a DREAM COME TRUE!"

Ég hélt að þetta væri fyndið, but also very disturbing. On the one hand, Ég var fegin — jafnvel smá stolt — að hann gæti hafa sterkar empathic tilfinningar, cross-species though they may be. As humans, we need to develop our "empathic muscles" svo tala eða þú munt á endanum eins og þessi strákur 🙂 On the other hand, he was feeling cross-species empathy toward a species who was exhibiting behavior inimical to his own. I was really struggling with this when the narrator used the word "paradigm". My son picked up on that and asked me what that meant.

Það er ekki svo auðvelt orð til að lýsa til fjögurra ára, but I gave it a try. When I think of the word "paradigm", Thomas Kuhn is never far from my thoughts. Ég las Uppbygging Scientific byltingum aftur á Lafayette og fyrir betri eða verri, the word "paradigm" is pregnant with extra meaning for me. (Sort of like the word "contact" eftir að hafa heyrt Sími Movie rödd segja mér hvar ég gæti séð sem bíómynd [Ég hélt að bókin var betri]; Ég segi alltaf við sjálfan mig, "CONTACT!" whenever I see or hear someone say "contact").

Engu að síður, Ég er að reyna að útskýra fyrir honum Kuhnian skýring, that it’s "a historical movement of thought" and that it’s a "way of thinking with a number of built-in assumptions that are hard to escape for people living at that time." Auðvitað, þú getur ekki talað eins til fjögurra ára, so I’m trying to successively define it to smaller pieces and feeling rather proud of myself as I do so. (Ég bara vissi að einhver utan háskóla myndi hugsa að ég hefði lesið Kuhn!).

I’m just warming to the task when he interrupts me. Waving his hand almennt átt minn og aldrei taka augun af öðru grimmur hákarl árás, hann segir bara, "Yeah, já, já. Blah, bla, blah.".

So much for that 🙂

At that point, I decided to run away, rhetorically speaking, sit back, and enjoy watching sharks attack humans with my son.

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Skipta View Skoða Byggt á auðkenni notanda í An Infopath Form

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Við höfðum þróað með InfoPath form með mörgum útsýni til að styðja nýja ráða / on-boarding process. When the company hires a new person, The IT deild og aðrir hópar þurfa að grípa til aðgerða (setja upp launaskrá, virkja aðgang að viðeigandi forritum, finna skrifborð, o.fl.). We use on form but a different view of the form for each of those functions.

Á þetta fyrirtæki, flestir sem taka þátt í viðskiptum ferli eru IT-kunnátta, svo þegar þeir opna mynd, their default view is a "menu" view with buttons that direct them to their specific function. Hins, we needed to simplify things for the new hire’s direct manager. This person should not see any of the IT related stuff. Í raun, hún ætti að sjá bara einn mynd af formi og ekki einu sinni kost að sjá aðra skoðanir.

Í okkar tilviki, að reikningur beinni stjórnanda er beint tied til mynd kurteisi af a samband val (which I am always wanting to call a "people picker" fyrir sumir ástæða).

Skrefin eru eftirfarandi:

1. Í ham hönnun, fara í Tools -> Form Valkostir -> Opinn og Vista.

2. Select "rules".

3. Create a new rule whose action is "switch to view" og þar sem ástand notar Notendanafnið() virka.

username() returns the "simple" user name without the domain. If I log into SharePoint with credentials "domain\pagalvin", username() returns "pagalvin".

The contact selector provides three bits of information for a contact. The "AccountID" portion is most useful for this scenario. The only thing that makes this even a little bit of challenge is that the contact selector (í umhverfi mínu samt) skilar ríki og Aðgangsorð notanda, as in "domain\pagalvin". This prevents us from doing a straight-forward equality condition since AccountID ("domain\pagalvin") mun aldrei jafna notandanafn() ("pagalvin").

We can get around this using the "contains" rekstraraðila: AccountID inniheldur notandanafn().

Við getum tekið það frekar og pre-pend a harður-dulmáli ríki framan notandanafn() virka til að fá jafnrétti athuga okkar og koma í veg fyrir hættu á falskur jákvæður á inniheldur rekstraraðila.

We would have REALLY like to automatically switch view for other users based on their AD security group membership. Til dæmis, when a member of the "IT Analytics" Hópurinn notar mynd, automatically switch to the IT Analytics view. We didn’t have time to implement it, but my first thought is to create a web service that would have a method like "IsMemberOfActiveDirectorySecurityGroup", standast það username() and return back true or false. Does anyone have any other, meira snjall hugmynd? Is there any SharePoint function we can leverage from InfoPath to make that determination?

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Tilviljun bæta kóða til Infopath Form; Vísvitandi fjarlægt það

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Þegar unnið er með hnöppum á mynd, we often add rules. You access the rules editor from the properties of the button.

Þegar smellt kring fljótt, it’s easy to accidentally click on "Edit Form Code" instead of "Rules …".

Í fyrsta skipti sem ég gerði þetta, I canceled out of the code editor. Hins, þegar ég reyndi að birta mynda Skömmu síðar, it required that I publish as an "Administrator-approved form template (háþróaður)". I didn’t actually do any programming and I absolutely didn’t want to go through an unnecessary approval process. I was in a bit of panic at the time due to time constraints. To get past it, I simply restored a previous backup and continued. I had recently seen some blog posts about people going into the form’s XML to tweak things and I was afraid I would have to do something similar.

Í dag, I did it again. Í þetta sinn, Ég hafði aðeins meiri tíma á höndum mínum og fann að þú getur auðveldlega losa þetta.

Fara til:

Tools -> Form Valkostir -> Forritun: "Remove Code"

Það skiptir ekki miklu auðveldara en að.

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Lágmark Öryggi þarf til Eyðublöð Infopath

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I needed to meet a security requirement for an InfoPath form today. In this business situation, a relatively small number of individuals are allowed to create a new InfoPath form and a much wider audience are allowed to edit it. (Þetta er ný-ráða á borð mynd notuð af Human Resources sem kynnir workflow).

Til að mæta þessu markmiði, Ég bjó búið tvær nýjar aðgangsstig ("create and update" and "update only"), broke inheritance for the form library and assigned permissions to a "create, uppfæra" user and a separate "update only" notandi. The mechanics all worked, but it turned out to be a little more involving than I expected. (Ef þú feel a lítill skjálfta á SharePoint leyfi, skrá sig út this blogg). The required security configuration for the permission level was not the obvious set of granular permissions. To create an update-only permission level for an InfoPath form, Ég gerði eftirfarandi:

  1. Búa til nýjan leyfi stig.
  2. Hreinsa burt alla möguleika.
  3. Selected only the following from "List permissions":
    • Breyta Atriði
    • Skoða hluti
    • Skoða Umsókn Greinar

Velja þessa valkosti leyfa notanda að uppfæra mynd, en ekki skapa það.

The trick was to enable the "View Application Pages". There isn’t any verbage on the permission level that indicates that’s required for update-only InfoPath forms, en reynist það er.

Create-and-Update was even stranger. I followed the same steps, 1 gegnum 3 ofan. I had to specifically add a "Site Permission" valkostur: "Use client integration features". Aftur, lýsing þar er ekki að gera það virðast eins og það ætti að vera þörf fyrir Infopath formi, en þar er.

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Að “In-Milli” Feeling; Athuganir á SharePoint ráðgjöf

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Því miður, phase one of my last project has come to a close and the client has opted to move ahead by themselves on phase two. We did our job too well, as usual 🙂 I’m now between projects, sérstakur tími fyrir ráðgjafa starfsmanna eins og mig (as opposed to independents who must normally live in perpetual fear of in-between time 🙂 ). We staff consultants fill this time in various ways: Working with sales folk to write proposals; filling in for someone or backing up a person on this or that odd job; studying; Blogging :). It’s hard to plan more than a few days in advance. At times like this, while I have a bit of time on my hands, I like to reflect.

I’m almost always sad to leave a client’s campus for the last time. We consultants form a peculiar kind of relationship with our clients, unlike your typical co-worker relationship. There’s the money angle — everyone knows the consultant’s rate is double/triple or even more than the client staff. You’re a known temporary person. As a consultant, you’re a permanent outsider with a more or less known departure date. En, you eat lunch with the client, take them out to dinner and/or for drinks, buy cookies for the team, go on coffee runs, give/receive holiday cards — all the kinds of things that co-workers do. On one hand, you’re the adult in the room. You’re an expert in the technology which puts you in a superior position. Á hinn bóginn, you’re a baby. On day zero, consultants don’t know the names, the places or the client’s lingo. Most times, consultants never learn it all.

When things go well, you become very well integrated with the client’s project team. They treat you like a co-worker in one sense, and confidant in another. Since we don’t have a manager-style reporting relationship with the client, the project team often feels a little free to air their dirty laundry. They let their barriers down and can put the consultant into an awkward position, never realizing they are doing it.

Consultants often don’t get to implement phase two and that never gets easy for me. I think this is especially hard with SharePoint. Phase one of of your typical SharePoint project covers setup/configuration, governance, taxonomy, basic content types, o.fl.. and in many respects, amounts to a lengthy, extremely detailed discovery. That’s how I view my last project. We did all the basic stuff as well as execute some nice mini-POC’s by extending CQWP, implementing BDC connections to PeopleSoft, introduced a fairly complex workflow with SharePoint Designer, touched on basic KPI’s and more. A proper phase two would extend all of that with extensive, almost pervasive BDC, really nice workflow, fine tuned and better search, records center, excel services and probably most important, reaching out to other business units. En, it’s not to be for me, and that’s sad.

Based on this recent experience, I think it’s fair to say that a proper enterprise SharePoint implementation is a one year process. It could probably legitimately run two years before reaching a point of diminishing returns. Details matter, auðvitað.

That’s the consultant’s life and all of these little complaints are even worse in a SharePoint engagement. As I’ve written before, SharePoint’s horizontal nature brings you into contact with a wide array of people and business units. When you’re working with so many people, you can see so many ways that SharePoint can help the company become more efficient, save time, do things better… but you don’t always get to do them.

I often look back to my first job out of college, before starting a consulting career 1995. We did get to do a phase two and even a phase three. Those were nice times. On the downside, þó, that means that that would mean a lot of routine stuff too. Managing site security. Tweaking content types. Creating views and changing views. Dealing with IE security settings. Restoring lost documents. Blech! 🙂

Despite my melancholy mood, I can’t imagine a place I’d rather be (except at a warm beach with a goodly supply of spirits).

I can’t wait to get started implemented the next enterprise SharePoint project.

(Apropos of nothing, I wrote most of this blog entry on an NJ Transit bus. I don’t think I made any friends, but one CAN blog on the bus 🙂 )

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Sunnudagur Fyndið: “Þeir eru ekki svo slæmt”

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Aftur nálægt 1999, Ég var að eyða fullt af vikum í Santa Barbara, CA, að vinna fyrir viðskiptavin, leaving my poor wife back here in New Jersey alone. I dearly love my wife. I love her just as much today as I did when she foolishly married me 1,000 years or so ago. Einhvers staðar meðfram línu, I coined a phrase, "special fear", as in "Samantha has special fears." She as a special fear of "bugs", which to her are not flies or ladybugs, but rather microbes. She’s afraid of this or that virus or unusual bacteria afflicting our son, or me, but never really herself. (She is also specially afraid of vampires, miniature evil dolls (especially clowns) and submarine accidents; she has out-grown her special fear of people dressed in Santa Claus outfits).

Einn daginn, my co-worker and I decided to drive up into the nearby mountains near Ohai. At one point, we got out of the car to take in the scene. When we got back into the car, I noticed that a tick was on my shoulder. I flicked out the window and that was it.

That night, I told her about our drive and mentioned the tick. The conversation went something like this:

S: "Oooo! Those are bad. They carry diseases."

P: "Well, I flicked it out the window."

S: "They are really bad though. They can get under your skin and suck blood and transfer bugs. You better check your hair and make sure there aren’t any in your head!"

P: In a loud voice: "My God! CAN THEY TAKE OVER YOUR MIND???"

S: Literally reassuring me: "No, they’re not THAT bad."

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Fljótur og Þægilegur: Sjálfkrafa Open InfoPath Form frá SharePoint Designer Email

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UPDATE: Madjur Ahuja bendir á þennan tengil frá a ráðstefnu umræða: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms772417.aspx. It’s pretty definitive.

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We often want to embed hyperlinks to InfoPath forms in emails sent from SharePoint Designer workflows. When users receive these emails, þeir geta smellt á tengilinn frá tölvupósti og fara beint í Infopath formi.

Þessi slóð skrímsli byggingu virkar fyrir mig:

HTTP://server/sites/departments/Technical Services/InformationTechnology/HelpDesk/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XmlLocation=/sites/departments/Technical Services/InformationTechnology/HelpDesk/REC REM RED Forms/REC2007-12-18T11_33_48.XML&Source=http://server.corp.domain.com/sites/departments/Technical%20Services/InformationTechnology/HelpDesk/REC%20REM%20RED%20Forms/Forms/AllItems.aspx&DefaultItemOpen=1

Replace the bolded red text with the name of the form, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Note that there is a lot of hard-coded path in that URL, as well as a URL-encoded component. If this is too hard to translate to your specific situation, try turning on alerts for the form library. Post a form and when you get the email, skoða uppruna bréfsins og þú munt sjá allt sem þú þarft til að fela.

Astute readers may notice that the above email body also shows a link that directly accesses the task via a filtered view. I plan to explain that in greater detail in a future post.

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