I ran into another request recently which tied closely to a solution that I previously built a blogged about: Utilizing new related items column via workflow.  In that solution we had a custom list tracking project deliverable information and a document library used to stored the final documents.  When final deliverable documents were uploaded, the

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Setting a Multi-Value Lookup Column Using SharePoint Designer Workflow – Part 1

In January, 2014 the announcement that Microsoft InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client sent shock waves around the SharePoint community. They stated that ‘…we’re retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint, Access, and Word. This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and

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How to create an Employee vacation request form (with approval) using SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and Workflow

What you expect? How to install SharePoint 2010/2013 single-multiple servers using AutoSPInstaller? Which Service Accounts are used and why they are needed for SharePoint Server and SQL Server Installation & configuration? What should we take care while Configuration of AutoSPInstallerGUI? Recently I have installed the SharePoint Server 2013 on multiple servers. First I will define

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How to install SharePoint 2010/2013 using AutoSPInstaller

Introduction I’ve worked with all versions of SharePoint, that being SharePoint Services 2.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (commercial release), SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (commercial release), SharePoint Foundation 2010 (free) – plus SharePoint Server 2010 (commercial extension for Foundation), SharePoint Enterprise 2010 (commercial extension for Server), SharePoint Foundation 2013 (free) plus

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6 Free Auto Hosted SharePoint Providers

Create a workflow which is described on following image. Note: After any two of three approvers finish their approval tasks document will be either approved or rejected. Resolution Access SharePoint site and create custom SharePoint list. List name: Regulation Approvers Columns: Editor (PeoplePicker) Approver1 (PeoplePicker) Approver2 (PeoplePicker) Approver3  (PeoplePicker) Note: Using this method approvers can be different for

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How to create a SharePoint approval workflow with 3 dynamically-determined approvers

In short, the project was to display Blog Posts on our Intranet home page in a web part. No, doubt the CQWP comes to mind first. It is easy enough to configure by selecting your query source, and styling how it will be presented in the web part via web part editor and xslt (another

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SharePoint 2010: Dispaly a Users Profile Picture in a Content Query Web Part Using SPDesigner Workflow

One of the things I love best about SharePoint is I am always learning something new every day. In my experience, when things work right the first time you try something, you don’t learn much. Conversely, when things don’t work correctly, I learn tons of stuff. ‘Nuff said about learning opportunities in SharePoint. I recently

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Workflow throws an error when you try to update or delete to a BCS external list

In some Apps there are cases when you want to deploy SharePoint 2013 workflow on Host Web rather than app web. This article explains how to do it. The basic premise is that we first create the Workflow inside AppWeb and on ‘AppInstalled’ event we will get the published workflow definitions from AppWeb and copy

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How to create and publish a SharePoint 2013 Workflow from an App in the Host Web (without using SharePoint Designer)