Workflow History Description field limitation 255 characters

Posted on 27/09/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — 1 Comment

Well we know that Sharepoint is a WORLD to be discovered, in my opinion is in fact many worlds if you want to really know about it. Another thing is that no matter how many years of experience you have on it, that are always new things to discover, some good some bad . . . this time is one of the bad ones 😦

One of my customers has as application of Ideas Management implemented in Sharepoint, the process os approval is based in Sharepoint 2010 workflows. When one idea is rejected it is written a justification text so that it stays associated to the Idea, in this specific case it stays associates to the workflow task.

Ok, so far no problem . . . the user types the justification of the rejection on the multiline field (Description) in the workflow task, and rejects.

So when the Idea author goes and tries to read the justification the text appears truncated … ??? Hum!!! so what is the problem?

The text fields in workflows are limited by design to 255 characters, so even though you can write more than 255 and it is stored (you can check this in the Workflow Tasks List) when it lists the workflow history in the workflow page it truncates the text to the 255 characters.

So the advice (Best Practices) from Microsoft in these cases are to ensure the text in the text fields in workflows do not exceed the 255 characters.

Sharepoint, always a surprise . . sometimes good sometimes bad!

Why I Use Sharepoint – Videos

Posted on 27/09/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — 1 Comment

I found a series of funny videos to illustrate some of the situations that Sharepoint can help. The situations are very close to some of the realities I have come across 🙂

I don’t know who is the author of these videos.

Approval

Team Sites

Recover work

Proposal

Tagged with: collaboration, proposal, recover work, team sites, videos, Why I use sharepoint
Posted in Sharepoint

MCSD: SharePoint Applications Solutions Developer

Posted on 11/07/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — Leave a comment

Microsoft has provided the roadmap of exams to be a MCSD. It consisst in the following topics:

Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions
Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions

You can check this list here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/mcsd-sharepoint-apps-certification.aspx

Tagged with: certification, mcsd, sharepoint 2013
Posted in Sharepoint 2013

spclaimsutility.authenticateformsuser : “The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error.”

Posted on 5/07/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — 2 Comments

If you have an error similar to this:

“System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.ReadResponse(Message response)
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst, RequestSecurityTokenResponse& rstr)
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForContext(Uri context, Boolean bearerToken, SecurityToken onBehalfOf, SecurityToken actAs, SecurityToken delegateTo)”

This issue might be caused by the SecurityTokenServiceApplication being stopped in the IIS.

You can check by going to the IISManager-> Sites -> Sharepoint Web Services -> SecurityTokenServiceApplication.

You can start by checking if the Sharepoint Web Services are started.

After that you can check in the SecurityTokenServiceApplication providers if they include your membership providers configurations.

For me it was that the problem, once we started the Sharepoint Web Services and configured the membership providers all started to work again.

Tagged with: membership providers, securitytokenserviceapplication, spclaimsutility.authenticateformsuser
Posted in Sharepoint 2010

Reimagine SharePoint Development Guidance

Posted on 2/07/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — Leave a comment

With a new version of Sharepoint comes new challenges and doubts.

Microsoft has released a new Development Guidance to help us make some decisions.

When should we use APPs? Cloud or premisses? … Should I ask for a raise? ok, the last one is not part of the guidance 🙂

In the download you can choose between Deciding Between Apps For SharePoint And SharePoint Solutions and Moodle And Office365 With ADFS, both in pdf and xps formats.

You can download this new Guidance here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39047&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

Tagged with: 2013, Apps, Cloud, Guidance, office365, Sharepoint, solutions
Posted in Sharepoint, Sharepoint 2013

Do you want to keep learning? why not online and for free . . .

Posted on 26/06/2013 by Ricardo Magalhães — 1 Comment

One of the things we acknowledge very quickly in our area is that you need to keep updated in knowledge.

This will be easy if you have the taste to learn! If you do why not learn from exciting courses from prestigious schools for free? Yes, you read it right, for free . . how can I do this?

Well . . . there are several platforms with this objective I personally recommend 2: Coursera and edX

Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/

edX: https://www.edx.org/

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.“