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Deploying Infopath forms
28 March 08 03:04 PM | Tom Wardill | with no comments

Sometimes you need to deploy infopath forms to use in a form library. The main way to do this appears to be to install Infopath onto the server and use the publish wizard. This naturally isn't all that acceptable, as it uses office licenses, and generally...

Filed under: Workflow, Sharepoint, Visual Studio, Infopath

Converting a Visual Studio 2005 Sharepoint Workflow to 2008
18 March 08 02:00 PM | Tom Wardill | with no comments

1. Run the project conversion wizard. 2. Close Visual Studio 3. Open the project .csproj.user and replace with: < Project xmlns ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" > < ProjectExtensions > < VisualStudio >...

Filed under: Workflow, Sharepoint, Visual Studio

Building a WSP with Infopath Forms
05 October 07 11:26 AM | Tom Wardill | 2 comment(s)

A WSP is the preferred deployment solution for anything to do with sharepoint, such as web parts and workflows. While the workflow solution in Visual Studio should auto-generate a lot of the manifest.xml file that is used, there are a couple of little...

Filed under: Workflow, Sharepoint

Null Reference Errors with Task ExtendedProperties
03 October 07 10:53 AM | Tom Wardill | with no comments

If you are dealing with Workflow tasks that are giving null reference errors that are not showing up if the workflow is being debugged (They appear in the error logs, but not in Visual Studio), then check that none of the ExtendedProperties values are...

Filed under: FeatureNotBug, Workflow, Sharepoint

Using multiple Task forms in a single workflow
18 September 07 12:59 AM | Tom Wardill | 1 comment(s)

In the creation of a workflow more complex than the standard "hello world" equivalent, it will eventually be necessary to create more than one task, and to use different InfoPath forms for each of them. This can be done quite easily by using...

Filed under: Workflow, Sharepoint

Null References on Creating a Task
18 September 07 12:13 AM | Tom Wardill | with no comments

If you are trying to create a new task in a sharepoint workflow, and it is failing with null reference errors, or "value cannot be null" in the log files, make sure that you are setting the task ID to a valid GUID. It would appear that just...

Filed under: FeatureNotBug, Workflow, Sharepoint

Sharepoint Workflows and Numerical Names
17 September 07 08:24 PM | Tom Wardill | with no comments

If you try to create a sharepoint workflow with a number at the start of the name, it will actually create one replacing the first character of the name with an underscore, while still building the dll with the correct name. To solve this: For a workflow...

Filed under: FeatureNotBug, Workflow, Sharepoint