Storytelling With Analytics

What a great event it was! Great sessions! Great venue and setup! Great speakers! Thumbs up to the Chief Organizer ( Veronique Palmer from Lets Collaborate ) and team! So I was a speaker at the 2012 SharePoint Saturday, for the second time (first was 2011 SP Saturday Cape Town and this time it was Johannesburg), giving a session on Stripping Search Service Application - Level 400 (Managed Properties). Thanks to the great audience, and as promised, the slidedeck is ready for download, so is the source code that I used during the demo. Once again, lets keep the interaction going, via twitter , email and LinkedIn Happy days!

I was this one time faced in a situation where list items that should have kicked off a K2 workflow automatically, had been created but the workflows had not started. Firstly, the reason the workflow could not start was because...

Thought I could share this one. I was creating a SharePoint 2010 Project Web database subsite and was faced with an error message " The formula contains a syntax error or is not supported. "

After configuring User Profile Synchronization, I found that SharePoint People Search could still not work as the the content source for the user profiles was being denied access.

This one time I was trying to programmatically modify an SPListCollection, and I stabled into the error " Collection was modified; Enumeration operation may not execute ". This error came about during the code block that looped through the SPListCollection and attempting to update the collection.

This one time I was trying to figure out why every time I created a SharePoint lookup field, be it programmatically or via the UI in SharePoint 2010 and 2007, which looks up to another SharePoint list field, it would always have a value "none" in it when in use. So now I really wanted to eliminate that value...

Hello folks. Once upon a time, I was trying to create SharePoint Task list Alerts programmatically for each user that had been granted permissions to the specific site. The requirement was that these users would be assigned tasks and they needed to receive notifications summarising all the tasks that they had been assigned, on a daily basis.