Aspetti Fittex Fence Sitter Nru More

I kellha raġuni llum biex jilagħbu dwar il- CodePlex tfittxija aspetti project today.

Huwa kien madwar għal filwaqt, imma I eżita biex tniżżel u l-użu għar-raġunijiet tas-soltu (prinċipalment nuqqas ta 'ħin), plus outright fear 🙂

Jekk qed tfittex li ttejjeb tfittxija tiegħek u tesplora għażliet ġodda, download it and install it when you have an hour or so of free time. I followed the installation manual’s instructions and it took me less than 20 minutes to have it installed and working. It provides value minute zero.

It does look pretty hard to extend. The authors provide a detailed walk-through for a complex BDC scenario. I may be missing it, but I wish they would also provide a simpler scenario involving one of the pre-existing properties or maybe adding one new managed property. I shall try and write that up myself in the next period of time.

Bottom line — fil-minuti, inti tista 'tinstalla, kkonfigurat, use it and add some pretty cool functionality to your vanilla MOSS search and be a hero 🙂

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Iffrankar Older MS Office SharePoint Fajls Uża WebDAV — Problemi u jiffissa

Matul il-ġimgħa li għaddiet, tiegħi kollega and I were doing some work for a client in NYC. We were testing a different aspects of a MOSS implementation using their "standard" workstation jibnu (għall-kuntrarju laptops tagħna). While doing that, aħna dam fis ftit żbalji minn dawn il-passi:

  • Tiftaħ dokument kelma SM permezz ta 'twieqi Explorer (li juża WebDAV).
  • Tagħmel bidla.
  • Ħlief dan.

Aħna daħal li tirrealizza li xi drabi (normalment l-ewwel darba) aħna salvati id-dokument, the save didn’t "stick." Save did not save. We would pull that document back up and our changes simply were not there.

Aħna ma fehmux il-kwistjoni għerq f'dan il-punt, but we figured that we should make sure that the latest MS Office service pack had been installed on that work station. The IT folks went and did that. We went through the test again and we discovered a new problem. When we saved it, aħna issa ltqajna dan l-iżball:

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Din id-darba, deher simili kull bidla kienet, fil-fatt, salvat, whether we answered Yes or No to the scripts question.

Aħna finalment kellhom ħarsa lejn l-verżjoni attwali ta 'Uffiċċju u jirriżulta li l-workstation kien għaddej MS Office 2000 b'unità tas-servizz 3 li turi up taħt Help -> About as "Office 2002".

Il-morali ta 'l-istorja: I dejjem se jużaw Office 2003 bħala minimu verżjoni tiegħi uffiċċju linja bażi meta jużaw WebDAV u MOSS.

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(Għal skopijiet search engine, dan huwa test l-iżball tal-):

Linja: 11807

Char: 2

Error: Għan ma jappoġġax din il-proprjetà jew il-metodu

Kodiċi; 0

URL: http://sharepoint01/DocumentReview/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?location=Documents/1210/testworddocument.doc&dialogview=SaveForm

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SharePoint Migrazzjoni Tip: Użu “data untagged” Views għall-migrazzjoni inkrementali

In one or my very first blog posts, I deskritt-proċess ġenerali aħna segwit biex jemigraw klijent mill SPS 2003 to MOSS. A reader left a comment asking for more detail and here it is.

Għal dak il-proġett migrazzjoni, aħna kellha ssib mod tajjeb biex jimxu ħafna SPS 2003 documents over to MOSS. The initial load was easy enough. Create a new target document library in MOSS and use windows explorer to move the documents.

This is the new document library:

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Open up two windows explorers. Point the first at SPS 2003 and the second at the new document library in MOSS. The following screen shot shows this. Note that the top browser is actually pointing at my c:\temp drive, but you can imagine it pointing to an SPS 2003 document library:

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After that drag and drop operation, my target looks like this:

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Now it’s time to deal with the metadata. Assume we have just one column of metadata for these documents named "location." We can see from the above "all documents" view that the location is blank. It’s easy enough to use a data sheet view to enter the location, or even go into each document’s properties one by one to add a location. Let’s assume that there is no practical way to assign the location column a value automatically and that end users must do this by hand. Barra minn, let’s assume there are hundreds of documents (maybe thousands) and that it will take many many days to update the metadata. As we all know, no one is going to sit down and work for four of five days straight updating meta data for documents. Minflok, they will break that out over a period of weeks or possibly longer. To facilitate this process, we can create an "untagged data" tara kif jidher:

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Issa, meta xi ħadd tiltaqa stabbiliti biex jonfqu siegħa kuljum allokat tagħhom jew tnejn biex tag dokumenti emigraw, they can use the "untagged documents" ħsieb li tiffoka l-isforz tagħhom:

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Bħala dokumenti tag utenti, dawn qatra off din il-lista.

This notion of an untagged data view can also help with a class of data validation problem people inquire about on the forums. Barra mill-kaxxa, there’s no way to prevent a user from uploading a document to MOSS and then not enter meta data. We can specify that a particular site column is mandatory and the user won’t be allowed to push the save button. Madankollu, jekk l-uploads utent u mbagħad jagħlaq il-browser (jew użi twieqi Explorer biex ittella 'dokument), ma nistgħux seħħ il-utent biex jidħol meta data (darb'oħra, barra mill-kaxxa).

This approach can be used to help with that situation. We can use a "poorly tagged data" view to easily identify these documents and correct them. Couple this with a KPI and you have good visibility to the data with drill-down to manage these exceptional circumstances.

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SharePoint Fittex Wildcard: “Pro” Huwa Mhux a Stem ta “Programmazzjoni”

Fuq il-forum tfittxija MSDN, nies spiss jistaqsu mistoqsija bħal dan:

"I have a document named ‘Programming Guide’ but when I search for ‘Pro’ tfittxija ma jsibuha."

Huwa ma jistax jħossu bhalu, but that amounts to a wildcard search. The MOSS/WSS user interface does not support wildcard search out of the box.

Jekk inti ħaffer fil-partijiet tal-web tiftix, inti ser issib Checkbox, "Enable search term stemming". Stemming is a human-language term. It’s not a computer language substring() funzjoni tip.

Dawn huma xi zkuk:

  • "fish" is a stem to "fishing"
  • "major" is a stem to "majoring"

Dawn mhumiex zkuk:

  • "maj" is not a stem to "major"
  • "pro" is not a stem to "programmer"

The WSS/MOSS search engine does support wild card search through the API. Here is one blog article that describes how to do that: http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/03/06/how-to-use-the-moss-enterprise-search-fulltextsqlquery-class.aspx

A prodott parti 3, Ontolica, provides wild card search. I have not used that product.

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Logging Workflow Attività fil Designer SharePoint

Last week, I kien qed jaħdem kif biex loop u timplimenta magna stat użu Designer SharePoint u msemmi, Bħala twarrib, li I probabbilment jiktbu blog post dwar qtugħ workflow aħjar.

Well, Sanjeev Rajput beat me to it. Agħti ħarsa.

Iffrankar data log fis lista custom jidher superjuri għall-użu tal-istorja workflow regolari:

  • Huwa biss lista custom, sabiex inti tista 'esportazzjoni li jisbqu faċilment.
  • Tista 'toħloq fehmiet, dinamiku tiffiltra l-informazzjoni, eċċ.
  • Mhuwiex suġġett għall-awto-purge ikollok bi storja workflow regolari.

Hemm xi riskji / aspetti negattivi:

  • Ħafna workflows taħdem ma 'lott ta' qtugħ jista 'jikkawża wisq data li tkun miktuba fil-lista.
  • Maybe you *do* want automatic purging. You don’t get that feature with this approach (mingħajr kodifikazzjoni).
  • Security is tricky. In order to write to the list, the user must have permission to do so. That means that it’s probably not suitable for any kind of "official" audit since the user could discover the list and edit it. This could be overcome with some custom programming.

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Il-Trouble Bil Tribbles … żball .. KPIs

This past week I finished off a proof of concept project for a client in Manhattan. While implementing the solution, I dam fis insuffiċjenza ieħor ta 'MOSS KPIs (tara hawn għal kwistjoni KPI preċedenti u workaround tiegħi).

Sfond: We used SharePoint Designer workflow to model a fairly complex multi-month long business process. As it chugged along, it would update some state information in a list. KPIs use this data to do their mojo.

We decided to create a new site each time a new one of these business processes kicks off. Aside from the workflow itself, these sites host several document libraries, use audience targeting and so forth. Just a bunch of stuff to help with collaboration among the internal employees, traveling employees and the client’s participating business partners.

We also wanted to show some KPIs that monitor the overall health of that specific business process as promoted by the workflow state data and viewed using the KPIs.

Fl-aħħarnett, we used KPI list items that do a count on a view on a list in the site (as opposed to pulling from another data source, like excel or SQL).

The Problem: As you can imagine, assuming we were to carry the basic idea forward into a production world, we would want a site template. Provision a new site based off a "business process" template.

The problem is that you can’t seem to get a functioning KPI that way. When I create a new site based on a template with a KPI List and KPI web part, the new site’s KPI data are broken. The new site’s KPI list points at whatever source you defined when you first saved it as a template.

By way of example:

  • Create a new site and build it to perfection. This site includes the KPI data.
  • Save that as a template.
  • Create a new site and base if off the template.
  • This new site’s KPI list items’ sources point to the site template, not the current site.

The instantiation process does not correct the URL.

I tried to solve this by specifying a relative URL when defining the KPI list item. Madankollu, I couldn’t get any variation of that to work.

I always want to pair up these "problem" blog posts with some kind of solution, but in this case I don’t have a good one. The best I can figure is that you need to go in to the newly provisioned site and fix everything manually. The UI makes this even harder because changing the URL of the source list causes a refresh, so you really have to redefine the whole thing from scratch.

If anyone knows a better way to handle this, jekk jogħġbok post kumment.

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MOSS Installazzjoni Farm Żgħar u Story Gwerra Konfigurazzjoni

Din il-ġimgħa, I’ve struggled a bit with my team to get MOSS installed in a simple two-server farm. Having gone through it, I ikollhom apprezzament akbar għall-tip ta 'problemi nies tirrapporta dwar l-forums MSDN u bnadi oħra.

Il-konfigurazzjoni farm finali:

  • SQL / Indiċi / Intranet WFE ġewwa l-firewall.
  • WFE fil-DMZ.
  • Some kind of firewall between the DMZ and the internal server.

Before we started the project, we let the client know which ports needed to be open. During the give and take, back and forth over that, we never explicitly said two important things:

  1. SSL means you need a certificate.
  2. The DMZ server must be part of a domain.

Day one, we showed up to install MOSS and learned that the domain accounts for database and MOSS hadn’t been created. To move things along, we went ahead and installed everything with a local account on the intranet server.

F'dan il-punt, we discovered the confusion over the SSL certificate and, sfortunatament, decided to have our infrastructure guy come back later that week to continue installing the DMZ server. Fil-ħin medju, we solution architects moved ahead with the business stuff.

A weekend goes by and the client obtains the certificate.

Our infrastructure guy shows up and discovers that the DMZ server is not joined to any domain (either a perimeter domain with limited trust or the intranet domain). We wasted nearly a 1/2 day on that. If we hadn’t let the missing SSL certificate bog us down, we would have discovered this earlier. Oh well….

Another day passes and the various security committees, interested parties and (not so) innocent bystanders all agree that it’s OK to join the DMZ server with the intranet domain (this is a POC, wara kollox, not a production solution).

Infrastructure guy comes in to wrap things up. This time we successfully pass through the the modern-day gauntlet affectionately known as the "SharePoint Configuration Wizard." We have a peek in central administration and … yee haw! … DMZ server is listed in the farm. We look a little closer and realize we broke open the Champaign a mite bit early. WSS services is stuck in a "starting" status.

Long storja qasira, it turns out that we forgot to change the identity of the service account via central administration from the original local account to the new domain account. We did that, re-ran the configuration wizard and voila! We were in business.

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Mea culpa — SharePoint Designer * CAN * Oħloq flussi tax-xogħol tal-magni Istat

I’ve recently learned that it’s possible and even fairly easy to create a state machine workflow using SharePoint Designer. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that good stuff and I had a need this week that looked for an invention. Coincidentally, I came across this MSDN forum post as well. My personal experience this week and that "independent confirmation" lends strength to my conviction. I plan to write about this at greater length with a full blown example, but here’s the gist of it:

  • The approach leverages the fact that a workflow can change a list item, thereby triggering a new workflow. I’ve normally considered this to be a nuisance and even blogged about using semaphores to handle it.
  • SharePoint allows multiple independent workflows to be active against a specific list item.

To configure it:

  • Design your state machine (i.e., the states and how states transition from one to the next).
  • Implement each state as separate workflow.
  • Configure each of these state workflows to execute in response to any change in the list item.

Each state workflow follows this rough pattern:

  • Upon initialization, determine whether it should really run by inspecting state information in the "current item". Abort if not.
  • Do the work.
  • Update the "current item" with new state information. This triggers an update to the current item and fires off all the state workflows.

Aside from the obvious benefit that one can create a declarative state machine workflow, all that state information is terrific for building KPIs and interesting views.

It does have a fairly substantial drawback — it-traċċar standard tal-istorja tal-fluss tax-xogħol huwa saħansitra aktar inutli min-normal 🙂 Dan huwa rimedjat faċilment, madankollu. Store all of your audit type information in a custom list. That’s probably a good idea even for vanilla sequential workflow, imma dak għal blog post ieħor 🙂

I call this a "mea culpa" because I have, sfortunatament, said more than once on forums and elsewhere that one must use visual studio to create a state machine workflow. That simply isn’t true.

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Tagħlim tal-Mixja Hard — DMZ WFE għandu jkun fil-Dominju

Għalkemm mhuwiex litteralment veru, bħala kwistjoni prattiku, internet li jħarsu web tarf ta 'quddiem fil-DMZ għandu jkun fil-dominju (I.E. mhux xi server standalone fil workgroup ftit tagħha stess). It doesn’t need to be in the same domain as the internal WFE(i) u servers oħra (u probabbilment m'għandhomx), iżda jeħtieġ li jkun dominju.

My colleagues and I spent an inordinate amount of time on a proposal which included SharePoint pre-requisites. This included a comprehensive list of firewall configurations that would enable the DMZ server to join the farm and so forth. Sfortunatament, aħna naqset li tiżdied sentenza x'imkien li qal, l-effett, "the whole bloody point of this configuration is to allow your DMZ WFE server, f'qasam, biex jissieħbu fl-farm intern."

A maltempata perfetta ta 'avvenimenti, fejn aħna bażikament ħares xellug meta aħna jista ħarsu dritt, conspired biex jaħbu din il-problema minna sakemm pjuttost tard fil-proċess, b'hekk jiġi evitat me milli jinvoka tiegħi "tell aħbar ħażina kmieni" regola.

Daqqa.

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Jekk int ma ppruvaw Twitter …

Twitter is a very odd duck. I’ve been using Twitter for a little over a month and in some indefinable way, it’s almost as important to me as email. I find myself vaguely unsettled if I wait too long before looking over what others are twittering about. I get annoyed at Twitter’s occasional performance problems because it means I’m missing out. I get a little puff of excitement when I see a new Woot announcement.

Huwa bennej komunità reali b'mod li verament jikkomplementa blogs u forums u anke wiċċ personali għal laqgħat wiċċ.

Fl-aħħar xahar, Stajt segwita tentattivi persuna waħda fiż tħawwad kiesaħ waqt li jipprova li jamministraw Seder.

I’ve learned personal detail about many folks I mainly "know" permezz ta 'blogs — fejn jgħixu, it-tip ta 'proġetti li jaħdmu fuq, li dawn ikollhom xogħol / kwistjonijiet tal-familja biex jamministraw bħad me.

Omm ta 'persuna waħda ħalliena … a sad event for sure. But sharing that fact changes and enhances the character of the whole experience.

Li jinsab biss l-għalf personali.

There’s more to it than that. It’s also another medium for sharing ideas, jew aktar spiss I think, seeking help. Throw a question up on Twitter and you’re never left hanging and the responses typically arrive within minutes.

Jekk inti ma ppruvaw, you should really give it a go.

Ħares me up fuq http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin

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