Archive for December, 2010

Recently I had to programmatically retrieve all Term values associated with a specific Term Set and bind the values to an ASP.NET list box control.The Term Set is US Regions and contains the following Terms. And the Term Set is under a Group called DropDown Lists. Shown below is the code snippet to retrieve the […]

  In Part 1 of this blog, I provided details on the following: 1.Configuration of retention stages (for records) in the Content Type’s Information management policy and Content Type Syndication. 2.Configuration of Records Center/Content Organizer rules. 3.Configuration of Send To connection. In Part 2, I will provide details on the following: 1.Approval process. 2.Issues encountered […]

I recently had the opportunity to work on a project where we implemented a Records Management solution using SharePoint 2010. The high level project requirements were as follows: 1.Enable users to easily send documents from Team sites to a central Records Vault site. 2.Provide an approval process that would enable documents sent to the central […]

Adding CTS flows through the FSIS Admin UI is a tedious process which requires a lot of clicks through a wizard like workflow. Redeploying (updating a flow) is even more time consuming because you have to remove the flow first before adding it back. If you have a lot of flows there, you would have […]

Robert Martin wrote an article in November, 2010 entitled “What killed water fall could kill Agile” Martin wrote about the elitism in software development. In water fall, the analysts are elites; they define everything in documentation and leave the work to the developer. When a project fails, it is the developer who bares the blame. […]

The Problem One of the major shortcomings of FSIS CTS is that there is no functionality to load configuration values from a file to use within the flows. Things like server addresses, content directories, email address, etc… have to be hardcoded into each of the CTS operators. If you are like me and have become […]

Back in June 2010, Vittorio Bertocci posted a method to implement sliding sessions with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) on his blog. While the article addresses ASP.NET applications configured to use WIF, Vittorio mentions that SharePoint 2010 implements sliding sessions for Forms authentication more or less out-of-the-box. Sadly this is not the case for situations where […]

In my investigations of some of the new features of SharePoint 2010, I was interested to learn how I could programmatically walk the tree of a managed metadata hierarchy. This article walks through a program that will create a breadcrumb from a managed metadata hierarchy. The first thing we need to do is to create […]

Overview If you’ve ever updated or changed the index profile in ESP, you are very familiar with the Matching Engines page in the ESP Admin GUI which allows you to upload a new index profile. Uploading a new index profile using this page is very easy but this method of uploading an index profile is […]

Here’s the scenario: you’ve got two Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services that return related data. For instance, let one of them be a service that returns People and let the other be a service that returns Documents. Every Document was authored by one or more Person. Since these services are separate Line of Business (LOB) […]

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(Updated 6 November 2014) One of the wonderful things about the web is that most of the world’s information is accessible online. Better still, a large portion of the world has access to all of that information. Search engines play a huge role in making it easy to sift through that information and find the […]