Tim Dobrinski’s Variations Editor
Posted on August 28, 2008 - Filed Under Life
For any of you MOSS people who use Variations and understand the sheer pain of the relations list. My friend Tim has created the free application for you.
Did I mention he released this FOR FREE??
Random Error: Infopath’s “updating the site content type failed” Part 2
Posted on August 25, 2008 - Filed Under Life
I really hate this error. You publish a form that has been published a million times before, and you get the “Updating the site content type failed” message. Its like the Red Ring of Death on your XBox… you’re left staring at it in utter disbelief.
Oh but it goes beyond the normal. I have a brand new site collection with MOPS extended onto it. So any thought of corruption of Content Types on the site collection is mute. So, how did I solve it this time? Well, when you publish a form template to Form Server, InfoPath calls a web service that does some black voodoo in the back. What it actually does I’m not sure of, but suffice to say it makes your form template web based, creates your content type and sets your site columns accordingly. Well.. this web service has a hard coded time out value of 30 seconds. Yeah. You read that right. Got that from M$ support. So, if you have any network issues, this thing chokes and you get your lovely descriptive error.
So what did I actually do to fix my problem? Rebooted the server. Published the form with one less site column (I didn’t need it). It published fine… crisis avoided.
Howto: Find your Project Server URL from Project Workspace Context
Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under Life
This is a companion post to go with How to: Find your Project UID from Project Workspace Context since I’ve received a few questions on this topic.
The following code will return the fully qualified URL for your Project Server instance.
String PWA = SPContext.Current.Web.AllProperties["PWAURL"].ToString();
