Experiences with SharePoint, web development, and programming
The most recent problem I ran into was when I tried to filter out items that had a certain Workflow status in the list. More specifically, I was trying to filter on items that had errored out and had a status of “Error Occurred” in the list.
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I recently ran into a problem creating alerts in a web part for the current user. After the alert was added, no matter what I set the SPAlert’s EventType to, it always defaulted to All. I finally figured out a way around this problem thanks to a helpful post by erwin at sharepointology.
One thing that bugs me all the time is when a window doesn’t remember the position that it was resized or moved to. Although it is more of a nuisance than anything else, I decided to write a little AutoIt3 script to automatically resize my Remote Desktop windows to be the certain place and size that I prefer them to be in.
While researching a bug with editing in datasheet view and a custom list event handler, I discovered strange behavior with boolean values. Any boolean value you get from the SPItemEventDataCollection depends on where the item was originally edited: either using the regular user interface (EditForm.aspx, NewForm.aspx) or using datasheet view.
When creating a workflow using SharePoint Designer, oftentimes it is useful to be able to create a link to the current list item. Unfortunately, the built in columns are not so helpful.
