Friday, April 29, 2016

Speaking at Collab365 Summit 2016

In case if you do not know yet, Collab365 is huge this time. Its going to be Online from 10th to 12th May 2016 live from Microsoft HQ. If you are not registered yet, go and Register through the following link.

http://collab365.events/collab365-summit-2016/

With 12 more days to go I thought of writing up something about the session I am yet do deliver. I will be speaking on "Workflow Manager Troubleshooting and Experience". This will include some of the experience we had by building a considerably large workflow management system and automating several business processes.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Getting over with the Lookup field unavailability issue

I have been facing this issue quite sometime when creating a lookup field of a SharePoint list. The main suspect was the title field. 

As we create a lookup to a list we tend to use the title field as the lookup field. Also we are tend to rename it in order to easily get the field with link and actions. 

For example, lets assume we rename the title field as "Name" with the "MasterList". Still its internal name will be Title.

Now in the child list, we need to lookup the "Master List". What we need to do is simply lookup that name field. We can simply do it through the C# code. But SharePoint creates this within the internal name. So it expects the Title field to be there. 

The best way to avoid is setting up internal name when creating the lookup. This prevents any issues with the lookup. 

If you are ever mistaken with that and have used the display name, you can simply go to the column settings and save it even without any changes. This is a tricky way to get over there.

Regardless of trick, its always good to use the internal name.

Monday, April 18, 2016

SharePoint CSOMs for Customizations

One of the biggest questions that you may encounter if you are using the Managed Client Side Object Model for SharePoint development these days is picking up the correct version of the dll. Here is one of the screenshots captured through my dev environment.


As you can see in the above image, there are two versions of dlls available for each dll under different version numbers. 

Monday, April 4, 2016

C# Associating a Workflow Manager Workflow to a SharePoint list

Workflow Manager workflows are different to the prior versions as it follows a subscription based model for creating associations for the Workflow Manager. In this article I am planning to showcase the code snippet which allows associating a workflow to a SharePoint list as it is not much famous and mentioned at many places.