Paul Galvin's SharePoint Space

My Workflow Book is Available to Purchase

Paul Galvin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:23:38 +0000

I first started talking with my original co-authors over two years ago. They eventually abandoned the project, but late this summer, with the help of several new co-authors, I was finally able to bring this across the finish line.

Professional Workflow in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business Solutions hit Amazon and the Barnes and Noble [...]

SharePoint Web Part UI Design Pattern Using XSL

Paul Galvin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:12:14 +0000

I’ve been giving a talk this year on on a design pattern for SharePoint web parts where the UI is entirely managed via XSL.

I plan to write this up in greater detail over the next period of time. In the mean time, here is the PowerPoint.

The source code for this project is up on [...]

Interesting iPhone Application

Paul Galvin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:26:18 +0000

The mobile team here at Slalom has developed a really cool iPad application that combines virtual reality augmentation w/ offline capability to provide what may be the best New York subway finder and routing app available today.

Here’s the site describing the app in more detail: http://www.nycstationfinder.com/.

I don’t have any Apple products so I can’t [...]

Code sample: SP.UI.Notify [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:54:11 PDT

SharePoint 2010 CSS Chart - SharePoint Experience [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:39:22 PDT

MVP Again

Paul Galvin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:01:49 +0000

Microsoft re-awarded me with SharePoint MVP on July 1st this year and it’s no less exciting than it was the first time four years ago.

The SharePoint community is just an amazing place. I remember when I was first introduced to SharePoint by my old employer, Conchango. I was not happy about it . I had [...]

Running SharePoint Timer Jobs from PowerShell [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:22:40 PDT

PowerShell example starting up a timer job.

Security in Office 365 [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:39:25 PDT

SP 2010 Service Pack 1 [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:36:15 PDT

SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software ... [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:57:23 PDT

Let Shining Examples Lead the Way to Increased SharePoint Adoption

Paul Galvin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:47:25 +0000

My first “pure” BrightStarr blog entry was published today. Here’s a teaser:

There’s been a lot of conversation on the Internets of late on the topic of SharePoint adoption and especially the lack thereof. No one wants to go to all the trouble of designing a farm and security infrastructure, participating in workshops, putting together a [...]

“Access Denied” to Default.aspx on a SharePoint 2010 Sub Site

Paul Galvin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:06:53 +0000

One of my clients went live with their SharePoint 2010 environment today. We discovered that a certain group of users couldn’t access their default home page. SharePoint responded with “Access Denied” and the usual “sign in as another user” or “request access” response.

When we used the nifty “Check Access” function it confirmed that the [...]

XSLT and jQuery Samples

Paul Galvin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:00:00 +0000

I have been doing a lot of of XSLT and jQuery and thought I’d share a few snippets that others may find useful in future.

Example 1: Emit simple JavaScript / jQuery in XSLT:

<xsl:template match="something" xml:space="preserve">

<!– Blank out the query friendly filters hidden field –> <script type="text/javascript"> [...]

PerformancePoint and Error 33494

Paul Galvin — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 +0000

One of my clients called today when their PerformancePoint environment (in SharePoint 2010) broke down. One of the app servers in the farm was running low on disk space. While addressing that, the client uninstalled “too much” and the PP stuff all stopped functioning. Various web parts would show “An unexpected error occurred. Error 33494. [...]

Lists.asmx, GetListItems and Folders

Paul Galvin — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:00:00 +0000

I was doing some research for someone today around the list.asmx web service provided as part of SharePoint 2010 (and earlier). She was able to get the list items at the root folder (including the names of sub-folders), but couldn’t get items in sub-folders. I did some looking around on the internets and it’s a [...]

SPD Workflow Patterns, Tips and Tricks

Paul Galvin — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:42:08 +0000

I gave my presentation today at SharePoint Fest in Denver. Here’s the PowerPoint presentation itself: http://www.mstechblogs.com/paul/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SharePointFest.pptx

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:52:20 PDT

For a future time and place, where I have time to thing that aren't work-related :)

XNA: Game Development Intro | XNA - Game Development | Channel 9 [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:20:36 PDT

Free fix for view selection on pages with more then 1 webpart in SharePoint 2010 [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:15:35 PDT

Explains that there's a bug (or poorly designed behavior) with view configurabilty disappearing on a page whe there is more than one web part.

Ways to get sharepoint 2010 fields in jquery: Editform vs Dispform [del.icio.us]

pagalvin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:08:25 PDT