Andrew Kennel
Web Developer
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PHL ParkingInteresting workflow problem
June 24, 2008One of our users complained about not getting email notifications when a document was waiting for her approval today. I looked at the workflow in question, which was a simple canned approval workflow and noted that her name was listed correctly. To be on the safe side, I removed her entry, then readded her. I…
Continue Reading →Updating Lists
June 24, 2008I came across a problem today that I'd predicted weeks ago. Our Sentinel Events site contains a couple dozen Lists that are used to track events for different facilities. I used a custom list type to create these lists so that they all had the same customized Views. The problem with a custom list is…
Continue Reading →Sharepoint Site Restore
June 23, 2008I did something today that I've never managed to do before. I took a backup of a site running on one server, and restored it to a different server. That should be a pretty basic operation, but it's one I've never been able to do successfully. Truth be told, the restore that I have isn't…
Continue Reading →Server changes
June 19, 2008I just made a couple of adjustments to the search service on our production portal. First, I bumped the Incremental indexing up to 15 minutes. It had been running every hour. Checking the logs, I could see that this job was finishing in 3 to 5 minutes. I'll keep an eye on my change. I…
Continue Reading →Customizing the Content Query Web Part
June 11, 2008Whew! That was a lot of work. I'm still working on the Sentinel Event site. We have a group of Lists and want to have a single web part display entries from all the lists in one place. We looked at a web part from Bamboo Solutions that does this, but a) it's not…
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