Andrew Kennel
Web Developer
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PHL ParkingCalendar and Filtering on Workflow status
June 10, 2008Several months ago I created a Change Management app for our Help Desk Manager. He called me over today because he couldn't find a linked document. It turned out the document was just hiding in a sub-folder. While I was at his desk, he showed me the calendar he'd created to track the approved documents….
Continue Reading →List Templates and Custom Types
June 5, 2008For a little over a week, I've been working on a site called Sentinel Events. The purpose of this site is to record some events for facilities, and send out a notification to a list of people each time a new event is created. I originally created a custom workflow to send out these notifications,…
Continue Reading →Building a test box
June 3, 2008I was thinking this afternoon, as I built what seems to be the 50th version of our test box, that Microsoft is really going out of their way to make my life difficult. This is partly my fault, as I’ll get to later, but consider the steps required to build a Sharepoint Development environment. First,…
Continue Reading →Custom Workflow
June 2, 2008VP asked me to create a new site last week. The actual content of the site was nothing special, just a single document type that didn't even warrant creating an Infopath form. There was one tricky part: a diagram that specified exactly who should be notified when a new document was created…depending on what folder…
Continue Reading →Back from vacation
May 22, 2008I was away for a nice, long weekend in Montreal. Upon my return I discovered that our test box had been down since I left, and there were half a dozen small fires that needed putting out. It's nice to be missed.
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