Andrew Kennel

Web Developer

New Utility Created – SPFormsMaintenance

April 9, 2009

I've just posted this to the CodePlex: http://spformsutility.codeplex.com/ It's a utility that I'm running overnight to activate new Infopath forms on our production server. When an existing form is upgrading, IIS is restarted as part of the upgrade process. I've been upgrading our forms on Production with a batch script, and wrote this to handle things…

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Infopath Coding

February 19, 2009

I've been working on some Infopath forms recently.  We're rebuilding our Purchase Requisition system, which was previously a Notes Database as a Sharepoint site using several custom Infopath forms and workflows.  I've been working on the forms while D spends all his time on the workflows. These are the first fairly complex forms I've built…

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Working with GridView

February 9, 2009

I was asked by our VP to create a simple web part that could display all the birthdays in the current month. This was a simple enough project, so I quickly coded it up, and showed it to our Dev. He pointed out that I had used Labels to add my names and birthdays to…

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New version of Random Image web part

February 3, 2009

It's been a long time since my last post.  The Holidays and a new job and manager have put my off my usual schedule.  Today I finally got around to looking at a problem with my Random Image web part that was first complained about in late November.  I've never been able to reproduce the…

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Login trouble

January 7, 2009

Our VP was getting prompted to login to the sharepoint server.  This is odd, because we've set up our server as a Local Intranet site on all our clients, and IE is supposed to pass along login credentials for these sites.  After a bit of hunting, I found that his Windows account had a password…

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