Although I have decent size yard with a big vegetable garden that my wife and I try to maintain and grow organic vegies, I though it would be fun to start growing some things in my office. I get a lot of sunlight, especially in the morning. So I started by planting some seeds for […]
For those that haven’t seen this, I wrote a post about a Smart Workflow. It was a workflow that utilized a State Machine and various states, to keep track of what it had done last. Then, if you happen to terminate the workflow and restart it, it would figure out roughly where it was, and […]
With the abilty to query multiple values from an XML document or a SharePoint List using Nintex Workflow actions, a number of people have come to me and asked for a nice way to iterate through each collection and get corresponding values from each collection. One of the more common business scenarios is trying to […]
I was installing a security camera and when I hooked it up to one my routers, the camera would get online but the router didn’t seem to show the new devices IP address. So I was looking for a number of ways to ping the device as I know what the subnet was. Most people […]
Download Download the Workflow : Click here to download Note: This workflow was built in Nintex Workflow 2.3.3.0. If you are running an earlier build, it may not import. Introduction After using the Nintex Workflow Query LDAP action to retrieve some information, I ended up getting it in a distinguished name format: CN=wombat,OU=Users,OU=US,OU=Support,DC=alphas,DC=vadimtabakman,DC=com I needed […]
WARNING DO NOT run this on a production system unless absolutely necessary. It iterates through all sites, lists, items and workflows. I have not tested this for performance and system impact. There have been some requests on how to cancel all running workflows. I’ve looked online and have found a number of C# and PowerShell […]
Start of the Story Querying a database is something I do quite regularly. Whether it’s for work at Nintex or other projects. Sometimes this is just from using SQL Management Studio, othertimes, it is for something more complex and requires some code to be written that makes SQL queries and does something on the data. […]
After learning the basics in the first post – PowerShell Basics 101 , the aim is to use this new found knowledge to do some interesting things with SharePoint. Connecting to a SharePoint Site If you open the SharePoint 2010 Management Console, all the appropriate assemblies for SharePoint will be loaded for you. To instantiate […]
Here’s a few basics that I’m aware of that make things easier for me when I play around with PowerShell. Variables PowerShell variables all start with a dollar ($) sign.Initializing a variable requires simply giving it a name, followed by an equals (=) and the value $myVar = 1 If you want to initialize a […]
While designing a database using MSSQL, I inadvertantly left some fields using the default NChar data type. The downside to using this data type, is that you specify the max number of characters for that field and when you put text into it, it pads it with spaces. This means more data coming back with […]