Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items
Posted by merill | Filed under SharePoint
This had me tripped for a while. I was bulk inserting items (~800) to a list which had event receivers as well as a workflow attached.
The problem was that the workflow was not being triggered. Or if it did it just hung at In Progress.
After poking around for more than an hour I discovered that [...]
Tags: bulk insert, workflow
Implementing Business Rules in a SharePoint list
Posted by merill | Filed under SharePoint
On the project I am currently working on I had to implement a custom business rule for a list. The requirement was that only users in an Administrator group should be allowed to edit a particular field. All other users can edit that list but they are not allowed to touch that particular field.
Given that [...]
Tags: sharepoint; business rule; form validation; sharepoint 2010
Write CAML queries in code
Posted by merill | Filed under SharePoint
In my very first webpart that I wrote I needed to write some CAML queries to filter and sort the lists.
Being the type of guy who hates seeing strings littering my code I searched the net for an API for CAML queries. Thankfully John Holliday had already done the hard work and created CAML.NET. Check [...]
Getting ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName to work
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The documentation for the ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName method of the UserProfileService in the SharePoint Server SDK has a bug.
You’ll notice that although there are no errors reported the profile doesn’t get updated. The fix is quite simple though and is actually present in the other examples. Setting the IsValueChanged to true does the trick.
Here’s how the corrected [...]
Efficiently Delete / Purge All Items from a SharePoint List
Posted by merill | Filed under SharePoint
If you want to delete or remove all the items in a SharePoint list you need to iterate through each item and perform a delete. Most of the examples on the web iterate through each item to do the delete. The problem there is that each delete action makes a request to the server and [...]
