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I recently created a sharepoint designer workflow and only site collection administrators could start it. Other users, even those that had full control on a site could not start it and would get an ''access denied'' message if they tried. To fix it I opened the site in SharePoint designer right clicked on the workflow in the folder list and ...

Q: How can you create a hyperlink behind text in an email that is generated through SharePoint Designer workflow?  The interface does not have a way to insert a hyperlink. A: Simple HTML... Type Click <a href=www.microsoft.com>Here</a> in the body of the email and it will look like this once received: Click Here

Last week I undertook one day of K2 blackpearl training (was supposed to be two but I was throwing up horribly on the first day!). Anyway, I was mightily impressed with what is possible with blackpearl it is a fine product and I look forward to working with it greatly.  I particularly like the idea of smart objects which allows you to ...

Our turn out was pretty small,  we messed up the email notifications, and we did not notify people until the Friday before the meeting..   Also it was suggested we don't have these on Mondays :-) The agenda was, Workflow Options. John Roe from speakTECH did a great job describing the out of the box SharePoint 2007 workflow ...

  Just a quick note to let you know that the VSTO team published four new VSTO Beta hands-on labs to MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740390.aspx.   MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 1 - Data Binding with Word Content Controls MSDN Virtual ...

  Today I went to DevDays 2007 here in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where I live to meet Mike Hernandez and talk to him some more about VSTO. Mike was scheduled to do three presentations at the Dutch DevDays 2007 conference: Overview Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office a roadmap for the future Overview ...

  The last weeks I have been very busy (besides my professional activities in my daily job) preparing an environment to do a demo on Workflow. The goal of the demo will be to show the improvements to be expected when using VSTO ''Orcas'' compared to how you build your workflows today using Visual Studio 2005. Just to build an ...

I'm doing a session for the New England Code Camp later this month (Code Camp 7: Deer in Headlights! - http://www.thedevcommunity.org/CodeCamps/) on workflow development with Visual Studio.  See the abstract at the end of this blog.  I've been working with MOSS workflow for a little bit now and have accumulated some (mostly) ...