My first blog post EVER! 😀 (so please pardon any blog post etiquette that I may not follow… guess stating that this is my first blog post ever would be one of those?) So about 3 weeks ago, I was working with a co-worker on creating a Nintex Workflow for Office 365. The Nintex workflow
Introduction SharePoint 2010 Workflow includes an action called Lookup Manager of a User. This action was not included in SharePoint 2013 Workflow. The purpose of this blog post is to show how that action can be achieved in a SharePoint 2013 Workflow. To do so, we will make a call to the REST endpoint for
As SharePoint Online matures into a viable alternative to its on-premises counterpart, many people are asking the question Which version is right for my organization? As is usually the case, the answer is “It depends”. Too often we see this decision being made solely on one criteria (i.e. cost) and not taking into account all of
Ever have someone ask you to build a registration form for training or sign-up sheet for an event on SharePoint? Seems simple enough until you go to do it… Well next time that happens give this a try! Create the Lists Calendar List – use the out of the box Calendar list and add these fields Seats
Recently, I was asked to come up with a solution for retrieving the value of a Managed Metadata column for items in a SharePoint list. This solution was needed as part of a SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow and, initially, I thought that it would be fairly simple to do by building a Custom Workflow Activity in Visual Studio 2013. As is often the case, it
In this article, I want to review a part of Customer Collaboration System, which can be used to share documents with clients and cooperative work on common projects. This ‘proof of concept’ was build using SharePoint Online and Plumsail Workflow Actions Pack. Architecture description Core of our system is a simple document library which contains
When it comes to enterprise content management system, many seem to be grappling with the question whether to migrate content from File Servers to SharePoint or not. Can SharePoint be considered as a replacement of File Servers? If you take such a simplistic approach to the question, the answer would be no. MS SharePoint can
Introduction In this article, I want to cover very common scenario of any business system it is alert notification or reporting subsystem. Usually that functional is responsible to notify end users about new events, overdue tasks and sending summary reports via e-mail. I want to review a couple of simple cases. Which I hope, you
It is common scenario when you did some customizations, saved site as template and want to reuse it in SharePoint 2013. Such site templates can include workflows with custom workflow actions. Unfortunately if you save site with custom workflow actions as template and then try to create new site you can receive such annoying error: Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityNotFoundException:The
If you have a SharePoint designer workflow attached to a list in a SP site, and you want to create an identical site, you will save site as site template and create a new site with it, assuming it will be identical. In reality this is not the case, as any SPD list workflow will
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