SharePoint duka Majadiliano kurejea kwa Alhamisi 10/01/09

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I’ve noticed that people seem to be waiting until the last minute to register for SharePoint Shop Talk sessions. Last Thursday, saa kuhusu 11:45AM, tulikuwa na watu tisa kujiandikisha, which is a very small number. Hata hivyo, katika hatua moja, tulikuwa 18 au 20 watu saini katika, hivyo angalau watu tisa saini kwa ajili yake 45 minutes or less before the call. I’m not complaining, tu kuchunguza.

We had a full schedule of questions and discussion topics and couldn’t get to all of them. As usual, tutaweza kuchukua ambapo sisi kushoto mbali hii Alhamisi ijayo.

Hapa ni kurejea:

  • Vamshi asked about building a WSS environment that has SP1 and not SP2. You can download that configuration here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en. And someone else suggested looking here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx.

  • Tulikuwa (kuwakaribisha) surprise return visitor. A few weeks previous, Blue had asked us a question that left everyone on the call a little sad because we couldn’t help. His problem and solution are really fairly complicated, lakini majipu chini kujenga data mtandao mtazamo sehemu na aina mbalimbali ya tarehe kuchujwa (si tu moja kuchujwa tarehe, ambayo ni rahisi). He may write up a blog entry on this and if does, I’ll link to it. In the course of the discussion, yeye inajulikana kila mtu kwa viungo hizi mbili:
  • Looping katika designer SharePoint - kinaweza kufanyika? The answer is “yes” in some narrow cirumstances. Hata hivyo, kufanya hivyo, haja ya kufanya baadhi ya mambo ya gumu kwamba ni vigumu conceptualize, ngumu kutekeleza, hard to debug … it’s just plain hard. jopo la maridhiano - si kufanya hivyo kama unaweza kuisaidia,,en,Kama unahitaji looping,,en,kujenga vitendo desturi au kuacha chini katika Visual studio,,en,kuuliza kuhusu Drag na kuacha kutoka data mtazamo mtandao sehemu,,en,mazingira ya kuvutia sana na kama kuna mtu ana ufumbuzi werevu,,en,Hapa ni tatizo,,en,ana DVWP kwamba anafanya baadhi ya kuchuja muhimu kwa maktaba hati ambayo anarudi nyuma kadhaa au nyaraka zaidi,,en,Hii kazi kubwa,,en,watumiaji wake haja ya kuchukua nyaraka hizo na kuchoma yao kwa CD,,en,Hii ni doable kutumia madirisha Explorer aina mtazamo,,en,Hatukuweza kufikiria jibu nzuri,,en,Unaweza,,en,kutufanya kufahamu ukweli kwamba attachments kwa aina InfoPath unaweza kuwasilishwa kupitia huduma ya mtandao kwa maktaba ya picha katika SharePoint,,en. If you need looping, create custom actions or drop down into visual studio. Bila shaka, kama wewe ni kutumia SPD, wewe matatizo hayawezi kushuka chini katika VS, lakini ni nini ni, cha kusikitisha.
  • Akizungumza ya kusikitisha, Nancy mafanikio ya "Make Jopo Sad" tuzo na (futilely) asking about drag and drop from a data view web part. The scenario is very interesting and if anyone has a clever solution, tafadhali napenda kujua. Here’s the problem: she has a DVWP that is doing some necessary filtering on a document library that returns back dozens or more documents. This works great. Hata hivyo, her users need to take those documents and burn them to CD. This is doable using a windows explorer type view, lakini jinsi ya kufanya hivyo kutoka DVWP? We couldn’t think of a good answer. Can you?
  • Laura Rogers, ikifuatiwa na Lori Gowan ya www.endusersharepoint.com umaarufu (na mahali pengine) made us aware of the fact that attachments to InfoPath forms can be submitted via a web service to an image library in SharePoint. Nje ya boksi! That is a very interesting fact with some very interesting implications.

That’s pretty much it. I probably missed something, lakini hopefully kupata kiini cha hivyo.

Hata mimi najua wewe si kweli ishara ya juu mpaka saa sita mchana, Alhamisi, hapa ni kiungo usajili kwa ajili ya kikao cha pili, Alhamisi 10/08 kutoka 12:30 kwa 1:30 PM EDT: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0z40kg9nb0t0842f

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SharePoint duka Majadiliano Alhamisi 10/01 @ 12:30 PM EDT (kesho!)

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SharePoint duka Majadiliano usajili ni juu na tayari kwa ajili ya kesho.

Tuna maswali kadhaa Teed hadi kwamba anwani baadhi ya masuala ya usimamizi (Dev / mtihani / Prod na kusawazisha hadi Packs huduma), email kuarifiwa (jinsi ya kuchagua watu kwa email msingi metadata ya hati) na baadhi ya majadiliano kote kwa kutumia aina InfoPath huduma katika mazingira FBA.

Kama kawaida, if you want to talk about a topic:

You can read about past SharePoint Shop Talks on my blog here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dPublic%2520Speaking

Register for the session here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

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Windows Live Spaces na Twitter Counter

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Mimi nilikuwa DM'd ujumbe kutoka Twitter leo na mawazo ningependa blog jibu.

Swali ni: "Hey Paulo, haraka moja kwa ajili yenu,jinsi gani ya kupata counter twitter katika nafasi yako kuishi kama kanuni script ni imefungwa wakati kuokolewa Thx "

I did this by adding a custom html widget to my live spaces page and using the little code snippet:

<a href="http://twittercounter.com/?username=pagalvin" 
 cheo="TwitterCounter for @pagalvin"> 
 <img src="http://twittercounter.com/counter/?username=pagalvin" 
 upana=88 
 height=26 
 style="border:none" 
 zamani="TwitterCounter for @pagalvin">
</a>

This uses a version of the twitter counter widget interface that gets past the windows live censor thing that we all hate so much and wish would get a bad case of poison ivy.

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Kusimamia Vikundi kibali na InfoPath katika Mazingira FBA

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Nina idhini gharama mchakato kwamba mimi haja ya kutekeleza kwa kutumia InfoPath katika aina ya msingi uthibitishaji (FBA) mazingira kwa kutumia huduma ya aina (mtandao msingi InfoPath).

Kuna mambo mawili ya idhini ya makundi na mchakato wa kazi kama hii:

  • Mtumiaji hujaza ripoti ya gharama na elekeza ni kwa idhini.
  • That triggers an email to first level approver group.
  • First level approver reviews and approves or denies the report.
  • If first level person approves it, system notifies second level approver.

On the InfoPath side of things, I have different sections that hide/appear based on whether the user is a member of one of those approval groups.

In an FBA environment the username() function always returns blank, cha kusikitisha. What I’ve done is set up a a custom list called “Approval Groups”.

I don’t add any additional columns to the list.

When the form opens up, it has a rule like this:

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The “set a field’s value” is here:

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This is basically saying: Query the approval group custom list and filter that query by looking for any row where Title’s value = “NORDIC”.

If that returns any value, then the current user is a member of that group. I know it contains that value because the string length is greater than zero.

Close the loop by securing the individual items in the Approval Group list. At run-time, if the current user doesn’t have appropriate security access to that item then the query won’t return it, string-length will be zero and now you know the current user is not part of that group. You can use that fact as needed in the form.

This is a super brief write-up. I’m pressed for time or I’d provide more detail.

I don’t know how relevant it is that I’m in an FBA environment. This would probably work well in a non-FBA environment but I can imagine cases where this would be useful.

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SharePoint duka Majadiliano kurejea (09/24/09 toleo)

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Sisi kumaliza SharePoint wetu 8 duka Majadiliano wazi Q&A session yesterday. During that session, sisi kufunikwa mada zifuatazo:

  • Jinsi ya kutuma nje barua yenye mpangilio kutoka workflow kuundwa kwa kutumia SharePoint Designer.
  • Ambapo kupata habari juu ya tofauti kati ya SharePoint 2010 na hasa Windows SharePoint Huduma 3.0 (toleo bure ya SharePoint).
  • We discussed jQuery maintenance and management. More specifically, "Ambapo lazima jQuery kwenda?” We had a great discussion around this topic and one interesting new ideas (kwangu) is the idea of a content delivery network. This bing search pulls up a lot of interesting data on the subject: http://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+content+delivery+network&FORM=DLSDF7&pc=MDDS&src=IE-SearchBox
  • Mtu alieleza kuwa sehemu (au labda hata wote) of the up-coming mega conference in Las Vegas in October will be broadcast over the internets. Check out this site for more information: http://www.week3.org/Events/default.aspx
  • We talked about RSS. That discussion covered a lot of ground. There’s a CodePlex project that does better RSS than what you get out of the box and www.endusersharepoint.com ina baadhi ya makala nzuri juu na Laura Rogers ya jinsi ya kutumia DVWP kujenga mzuri vikao vya RSS.

That about covers it. People seem to be getting a lot of help from these so we’ll keep them going.

Katika kupasuka ya ufanisi, I’ve already set up next week’s SharePoint Shop Talk session. You can register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

Kama unataka kushiriki, moto off barua pepe kwa questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, hit me up Twitter ("Mito) au kuacha maoni hapa.

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SharePoint duka Majadiliano Alhamisi 09/24 @ 12:30 PM EDT

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Usajili ni juu na tayari kwa ajili ya Majadiliano ya kesho SharePoint Shop katika 12:30 PM.

Wakati wito wa mkutano hizi, jopo la uzoefu SharePoint pro kuchukua maswali yako kupitia barua pepe, via live meeting or directly over the phone. We do our best to provide independent expert advice on all topics related to SharePoint.

Email your questions to "Questions@sharepointshoptalk.com", twitter them to me, leave a comment here or just show up on the call and ask.

We also welcome and seek insight from audience members.

You can read some recaps on previous SharePoint Shop Talk sessions on my blog.

This week we already know we’ll be addressing questions relating to workflow (a constant favorite) and search to name a few.

Kujiandikisha hapa: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=dv3m7cl30sxkq2n1

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SharePoint duka Majadiliano hii Alhamisi 09/17/09 12:30 EDT kwa 1:30 PM EDT

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ijayo SharePoint duka Majadiliano unafanyika hii Alhamisi, 09/17 katika 12:30PM EDT.

Je, ni SharePoint duka Majadiliano? It’s a one hour conference call where a panel of SharePoint pro’s answer questions. Send your questions to "Questions@sharepointshoptalk.com", leave a comment on my blog here or just ask them out loud on the call. The panel tries to offer several different approaches to solving the underlying problem behind the question and just generally provide unbiased expert advice.

Wiki hii tunaendelea na jopo huo, ikiwa ni pamoja na mimi mwenyewe, wangu wawili Arcovis washirika Harry Jones na Natalya Voskresenskaya na Laura Rogers ya SharePoint911.

Ufupi recapping wiki iliyopita - tulikuwa na maswali zaidi kuliko sisi inaweza kujibu, hivyo wiki hii, we’ll start off with those. We had 34 registret na nadhani 25 people actually joined the call. We covered a wide variety of subjects that I would say were 75% mwisho user oriented, ikiwa ni pamoja na:

  • Mikakati ya rolling hadi maudhui kutoka ndogo ya maeneo ya maeneo ya ngazi ya juu ndani na katika makusanyo ya tovuti.
  • madhara ya editform.aspx customizing kutumia SharePoint Designer.
  • Kushughulika na maarufu "data kukusanya kutoka kwa mtumiaji" hatua SharePoint Designer workflow.
  • Kutumia jQuery kutatua baadhi ya matatizo ya kawaida interface user.
  • Wakati eneo maswali (kwa ajili ya mazingira ya kijiografia kusambazwa)

Sisi kufunikwa vitu vingine kadhaa kama vile, lakini maelezo alitoroka mimi.

I promised to do follow up with a live meeting to dig into one of the questions and still need to do that.

Kujiandikisha kwa ajili ya kikao cha wiki hii hapa: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=bhj8dbrswhv1hv8r

Wiki hii, tunakwenda kuzungumzia angalau:

  • Mikakati kwa ajili ya kusimamia na kupata katika historia toleo kwa nyaraka
  • Kufaa na mawazo kuzunguka kutumia SharePoint kama mwisho mbele ambayo inaruhusu wateja wako ili kuona baadhi ya data ya kifedha.
  • Workflow maswali (kama kawaida).

Tutaweza kuona na kusikia wewe huko!

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SharePoint Jumamosi New York

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Nimekuwa uploaded mada yangu kwa ajili ya New York SharePoint Jumamosi hapa: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/Follow the Yellow Brick Road to SharePoint Mastery.pptx

Siyo sana muhimu kama huna kwenda kuwasilisha, lakini mimi matumaini ya kuongeza mengi ya maelezo kati ya sasa na Tampa, when I present it again. That would give it more legs and context and be more generally useful.

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Si ingekuwa Cool kama ...

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Mimi alikuwa anapita katika rundo wangu mkubwa wa magazeti ya MSDN kupata mke wangu mbali nyuma yangu kwa ajili ya 30 sekunde kufanya chumba kwa ajili ya magazeti mapya MSDN na mimi alimkuta makala wakubwa kuhusu kuunganisha MS Hotuba Server na msingi workflow na nilifikiri, si ingekuwa baridi kuunganisha wote kwamba pamoja na SharePoint? It would be kind of neat to be able to say “Create site named [baridi tovuti] katika ukusanyaji wa tovuti [papa kubeba]” into my cell phone and have it do that. I can imagine an architecture where speech server hands off the commands to a workflow application that does all the work. That’s very easy logic to implement on the server side of the fence.

Juu ya UI, you’d have to do something to get it rolling. I’d probably go to a “speech monitor” kind of SharePoint site that has some jQuery running that monitors a queue that is updated by the workflow application and shows, katika muda halisi, what’s happening.

That would be a pretty crazy technology train right there. Cell phone dialing up to speech server on some machine. Workflows bridging the gap between Speech Server and SharePoint. jQuery enhancing a plain Jane SharePoint UI.

Je, kuna sehemu yoyote ya vitendo kwa hii? Who knows. Who cares?

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Ushauri Unaweza Kuwa kidogo Kama Kuunganisha Kati yako Teeth Own

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[Kumbuka: This article cross-posted to Mtumiaji wa mwisho SharePoint hapa: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/09/09/sharepoint-a-case-study-in-ask-the-expert/]

Wakati mwingine, wakati wewe ni kazi kama mshauri (kama taaluma, au katika jukumu mashauriano ndani ya kampuni yako), you find yourself living in an Onion story. The Onion has a series of articles called “Ask an [mtaalam] kuhusu [baadhi ya tatizo]". This follows the famous “Dear Abby” format where a concerned person is asking for personal advice. The onion’s “expert”, hata hivyo, is so focused on his/her area of expertise and current problems that the expert ignores the question entirely and rambles on about his area of expertise. As consultants, we need to keep that in mind all the time and avoid falling into that trap. It’s classically described like this – “when you use a hammer all day long to solve your problems, everything starts to look like a nail.” We professional consultants are always on guard against that kind of thing, but we come into contact with people who are serious professionals in their own role, but are not consultants. They don’t have the same need or training to do otherwise.

Wiki iliyopita, I wrote about one of my company’s clients and an on-going project we have to enable high quality collaboration between various eye doctors in the US and Canada performing clinical research on rare disease. In addition to leveraging core SharePoint features to enable that collaboration, we’re also working an expense submission and approval process. It’s complicated because we have so many actors:

  • A handful of individuals at different doctors’ practices who can enter expenses on line.
    • There are over 40 doctors’ practices.
    • At some practices, the doctor uses the system directly.
    • At many practices, the doctor’s staff uses the system directly.
  • A financial administrator (who works for my direct client) who reviews the expenses for accuracy and relevancy, approving or denying them at the organizational level.
  • A 3rd party accounts payable group. These people pay all of the bills for out client, not just bills coming out of the rare disease study.

The Accounts Payable group has been a challenge. Working with them yesterday reminded me of the Onion series. In my role as business consultant, I explained the need to the accounts payable company:

  • Clinical studies sites (doctors’ practices) incur study-related expenses.
  • They log onto the “web site” and enter their expenses using an online form. Katika kesi hiyo, the “web site” is hosted with SharePoint and the expenses are entered into an InfoPath form. Expense receipts are scanned, uploaded and attached directly to the form.
  • An automated workflow process seeks approval from the appropriate financial administrator.
  • You, dear 3rd party AP company – please review and approve or deny this expense. I’ll send it to you any way that you want (within reason).At this point in the discussion, I don’t really care how it needs to be bundled. I want to work with the AP group to understand what they need and want.

When I explained the need, the 3rd party took a deep dive into their internal mumbo jumbo lingo about expense approval processes, Oracle codes, vice presidential signatures, 90 day turn-arounds, nk. And panic. I shouldn’t forget about the panic. One of the bed rock requirements of the consulting profession is to learn how to communicate with people like that who are themselves not trained or necessarily feel a need to do the same. Among other things, it’s one of the best parts of being a consultant. You get to enter a world populated with business people with completely different perspectives. I imagine it’s a little bit like entering the mind of a serial killer, except that you aren’t ruined for life after the experience (though entering the mind of an AP manager isn’t a walk in the park 🙂 [see important note below***] ).

One of the great things about our technical world as SharePoint people is that we have ready-made answers to many of the very valid concerns that people such as my AP contact have. Is it secure? How do I know that the expense was properly vetted? Can I, as the final payer, see all the details of the expense? How do I do that? What if I look at those details and don’t approve of them? Can I reject them? What happens if the organization changes and the original approver is no longer around? Can we easily change the process to reflect changes in the system? Can I revisit this expense a year later if and when I get audited and need to defend the payment?

As SharePoint people, we can see how to answer those questions. In my client’s case, we answer them more or less like this:

  • InfoPath form to allow sites to record their expenses and submit them for approval.
  • Sites can return to the site to view the status of their expense report at any time.
  • As significant events occur (e.g. the expense is approved and submitted for payment), the system proactively notifies them by email.
  • The system notifies the financial administrator once a report has been submitted for approval.
  • Financial administrator approves or denies the request.
  • Upon approval, the expense is bundled up into an email and sent to the 3rd party payer organization.
  • The 3rd party payer has all the information they need to review the expense and can access the SharePoint environment to dig into the details (primarily audit history to verify the “truth” of the expenses).
  • 3rd party payer can approve or reject the payment using their own internal process. They record that outcome back in the SharePoint site (which triggers an email notification to appropriate people).
  • In future, it would be nice to cut out this stilly email process and instead feed the expense information directly into their system.

In conclusion, there’s a life style here that I describe from the professional consultant’s point of view, but which applies almost equally to full time employees in a BA and/or power user role. Work patiently with the experts in your company and extract the core business requirements as best you can. With a deep understanding of SharePoint features and functions to draw upon, more often than not, you’ll be able to answer concerns and offer ways to improve everyone’s work day leveraging core SharePoint features.

***Muhimu kumbuka: I really don’t mean to compare AP people to serial killers. Hata hivyo, I could probably name some AP pro’s who have probably wished they could get a restraining order against me stalking them and asking over and over again. “Where’s my check?” “Where’s my check?” “Where’s my check?"

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