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Per Microsoft:
Although SP2 for the 2007 Office Desktop products can be uninstalled,
you cannot uninstall 2007 Office Servers Service Pack 2 for Office
server products. The main reason for this is that the installation of
2007 Office Server Service Pack 2 makes changes to back-end databases,
and those database changes are currently unable to be ...
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You can try creating a dynamic string and place that column in the configuration of it and then using that variable in your CC section.
In detail:
Add a step prior to all the email steps
On this step, use the action "Build Dynamic String"
Click the 'dynamic string' link in the new action, to open the "String builder" dialog
Click the "Add lookup..." ...
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There is no web service to interact with workflows. (You could write a custom one I guess).
Edit
There is a Workflow Web Service: workflow.asmx, it is just undocumented for SP 2010.
What kind of operations are you trying to perform? That is a pretty broad area, and depending on the desired action, there may be different "better" approaches to take.
If ...
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Laura Rogers has some great tutorials on approval workflows using OOTB technologies, such as InfoPath and SharePoint Designer. Here are some posts / demos you might find helpful:
Workflow: next approver is my VP (similar to your multi-approver scenario) http://sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=88
Creating a workflow initiation form ...
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The workflow issue is a security feature, although in your current situation, you might not agree.
It's easier to just fix the recursion issues for the workflows because going forward it has to be done anyway (SP2 required for upgrade where it will be required to be fixed). Add trigger column(s) to your list and create a second workflow that fires on ...
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Nintex has a big advantage in that it is more user-friendly with its graphical drag-and-drop components, and it can be accessed and edited directly from a SharePoint list or library. It is easier to visualize what you are creating as opposed to Designer's "blocks of text" which can be confusing if a workflow becomes large. It doesn't look like there is an ...
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The workflow impersonates the "Author" from a SharePoint point of view for that step. So if she somehow looses her rights if'll fail.
The reason I'm putting "Author" in quotes is that in my option it's a wrong term, because in fact it's the last publisher's identity which is used.
So if the workflow fails due to the "Author" loosing the rights any user ...
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I configured a dynamic approver by changing the "with [these users]" settings into looking up the data from the current item, as shown in step 11 here:
http://roykimsharepoint.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/sharepoint-designer-walkthrough-copy-modify-publishing-workflow/
This blogpost suggests that you need to wrap the assignement XML inside an "Assignments" ...
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Yes it is Possible. for this kind of application you have to use Event Receiver which get the total number of item added in LIST A and module by 5.
e.g.:- LIST A Items Count = 6. then if(Count%5 == 1) then Write the Logic to add Email of LIST B in LIST A item, and repeat for all condition(from 1 to 5).
you can use Item Added Event Receiver.
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In below link it says that Export to Visio 2007 is not possible in SharePoint 2007.
http://mrin17.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comparison-between-sharepoint-designer-2007-and-2010/
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Not a common problem, but it happens sometimes.
Get SharePoint Manager 2007 From CodePlex and find the offending column (You may have to put it in full mode I can't remember) and make a note of the GUID.
Then using powershell or a console app do the following:
// Not real code, just the process
Using SPWeb
GET SPList
Get ...
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Dominik,
Yes you can hide column of a List to appear in forms, make a DateTime column for your list and then List Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Allow management of content types? -> Yes
Once you allowed management of content types and go back to List Settings, you will see a section for Content Types having Item listed... as below screenshot:
Click ...
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Choose option As like above image automatically taken Semicolons between Names.
Second Option
The Above action Replace , by ; in string, after that the store to variable (output). so you can use email action instead of users you select variable.
Datasource: Workflow variables and Parameter
Field from source : Variable(output)
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The workflow is sequential, but it can start again from step 1 if a user updates item (there is such settings in workflow association, which allows to start it automaticaly on item update).
Probably, your WF is set up to start automaticaly on update and this moment confuses you, but really it is not a state machine workflow, but start of the same WF on ...
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Try to close SPD and clear its cahce before adding. The cache is located here:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache
UPDATE1: It has become much clear after comments.
The cause of your issue is the fact that you added fields to a list, but not to content type. As your workflow is reusable it only ...
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It's not as simple as one could wish, but you can do it by using the following actions as building blocks:
Use Find Interval Between Dates to get the number of days from a know date to the create date
Use Do Calculation (mod 7) to get the week day of the create date
Use a series of if any value equals value togetter with Add Time to Date to calculate the ...
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It's not a problem I've come across, but you could try impersonating another user, rather than elevating privileges:
// Using the User Token for the System Account is like running with elevated privileges.
SPUserToken userToken = ...
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url, userToken ))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
//Do Stuff
}
}
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Microsoft has been upgrading the O365 developer sites since SPC. Last week I went to my account and half my sites were down. Looking at the error I think the basic integration with the WAW server on your account has been screwed up.
Don't expect any support on this from Msft - they are preview trials. You can either wait and hope it gets resolved or try ...
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No, this is not directly possible for a single document library. But you could try and look into the Content Organizer feature introduced in SharePoint 2010. It gives you a drop-off library for which you can setup rules to route documentst to other locations based on their content type. The CO has a setting for generating unique filenames in order to deal ...
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In SharePoint designer 2010, we can certainly copy the content of the workflow mail. Here is the way to do it:
Click on the email action in your workflow (it means it should be selected).
Next go to the advanced properties in the ribbon, if you click that "Send an Email Properties" dialog box will be opened.
In that dialog box, there will be a row called ...
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Here is the technique I use quite a lot when I cant copy text which I see on the screen:
If you have Microsoft OneNote installed, you can capture an image representing the body and then past it in One Note. Then right-click on the image and select "Copy Text from Picture" option. This will extract the text from the picture and it works quite well.
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Create a Single-line of text column and make it as hidden. Through event receiver populate its value in your desired pattern (e.g. Dear Joe Bloggs, Jane Doe, and John Doe) from the "Person or Group" column. And use that new column in the workflow instead of "Person or Group" column. I know there is a overhead of writing event receiver but you will be able to ...
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Your current workflow will run each time a item is create and when it's changed each time it'll send the "Created" email and if Status is Completed it'll send the "Completed" email each of these can be send multiple times if the item is changed multiple times.
You have two options:
Split the workflow into two:
1. A workflow set to run when created ...
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a couple of things that I'd consider:
You're looking at the ItemAdded event receiver.
In the case where you've added a second item with the same name this has already overwritten the existing item.
You should maybe look at the ItemAdding even receiver and look for an upcoming conflict rather than trying mop up after you've replaced the existing file.
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Hi another alternative is to create your own custom upload control field, this would cut out event receivers totally and get around the issues you have.
Setting up a custom field control to do this would be pretty straight forward (Infact for example creating a upload control for blogs which isn't OOTB without enterprise)
This is a good resource if you ...
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Depending on when the workflow timer service runs, it can take longer than 5 minutes for your pause to unpause and resume. You can set the timer service to run more frequently.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424970.aspx
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I think we found the issue. It is caused by the workflow itself, because the workflow fires on item change and on item create. The item is changed within the worklfow and causes a recursion. I found this article (which is for 2007) which describes it in detail.
However, it is strange that it worked sometimes and sometimes not. Maybe a timing issue somewhere. ...
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Something within the following set of troubleshooting steps resolved the problem. Thanks to Tylerrr07 for helping out and giving advice. My best experience on SE to date!
Steps taken:
- Deactivated and Reactivated all "Workflow" features in the site collection.
- PSCONFIG.
- Attempted to use accounts with less permissions rather than an admin account ...
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If it's good enought to get a daily summary of new items where the total is 0, then you can create a view to show these and add an alert when new items enter the view.
Otherwise a timer job is the right solution or as you're not allowed to use VS against the server a program using the client object model which is run on a client PC by the task scheduler.
...
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Thanks to Gennady Vanin, who helped me to find a solution.
To reconnect InfoPath form we can use the next approach:
1. Export source files of the form.
Open form in InfoPath designer. And because we can't republish it to the different place using wizard (its type is a Workflow form), we should Export source files (from the menu File\Publish) to some ...
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