In my most recent Captaris Workflow class in Bendigo one of the students asked about solving a problem with our implementation of our Sharepoint Web Part. The issue was that we have one web part that does everything. This is great if you want it to do everything, but sometimes you just want a task list like the one that shows up in our web access product. Well, its actually really easy to create one in less than 10 minutes. The one shown in the picture shows my task list, the processes they come from, and the due date. Since my locale is US, I have US dates. If I had a different locale, they would be shown correctly for the locale.

To get this web part, first take a look at the full WebAccess client.

Everytime I set up a new sharepoint test/dev server I have to try and remember how to do everything I always do to the server….like how to remove the Event Tracker Shutdown dialog. Here is a great posting on all the things that you might want to do when you setup such a server.

I only post this so that next time I go through this again, I wont have to search everywhere for it for a few hours…

At Captaris we recently released Captaris Workflow 5.2. This is a point release adding some new functionality here and there, and one of the cool additions is support out of the box for SQL Reporting Services. I am building a series of automated demos for use on kiosks in our Vianen office at a event coming up soon. So I wanted to be able to show the latest in these demos, and that means showing the latest features too. Being able to report on workflows and key performance indicators from Reporting Services is pretty cool, so getting that going is pretty important. But for some reason RS was giving me no love this morning. I ended up having to reinstall RS. But this is on a demo VPC that has everything, including Sharepoint Portal. I believe this is not a supported scenario from Microsoft. Luckily there is a MSDN article on how to set this up. But even better is a blog posting from Mauro Cardarelli which lists the steps from that MSDN article, PLUS info on installing the Sharepoint webparts for RS, AND where to get the RS rdl files to report on Sharepoint stats. As soon as my VPC finishes rebooting and merging hard disks I look forward to playing with this a bit more.