OpenText Content Server : Livelink WorkFlows

Recently i was visiting a page on SharePoint Vs Livelink workflows on

http://ecmthings.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/sharepoint-2007-workflow-wwf-vs-opentext-livelink-workflow/

And wanted to recorrect few things on CS Workflow capabilities though not going into much details of SharePoint WorkFlows, WWF and i liked the comments of "Anton" over the post

" If you are a consultant then you probably only see those who want a custom solution which is great for you and your continued employment. But you don’t see the thousands of people who are simply designing helpful workflows. It is also incorrect to say “there’s only very few of us in the country that are good with” Oscript. There are many independant consultants and Open Text partners who use it every day along with Open Text’s own Global Services organization. If you are really a professional programmer/consultant it is simply another scripting language to learn along with the Builder tool ".

Livelink goes deeper for a truely colloborative plateform of process\business management by handling the retention management process for documents and incorporating a seemless workflow approval chain along the organization tree completely automizing the Business Process and incorporating a true Collaboration.

 

Continuing the Development Languages and integretion ho-halla i would like to publish the capability OT has.
Open Text's solutions provide records and content life cycle management across multiple systems and applications, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint, e-mail, file systems, digital assets, and more.

Now coming to extending the LL (OT CS) Workflow capabilities --

Livelink Workflow Extensions Module is a compilation of commonly requested features for Livelink Workflow.

Upon module installation, the following new features is made available to Livelink users:

• Extended Variable Replacement Values for Workflow Email Process Step

• Workflow Monitor and Notifications etc

WebReports Extensions for Workflow from a firm "ResonateKT"  provides you still interesting features to dig out more.

I will be posting more and welcome your comments and feedback :)

Ad User Group & Sharepoint Groups..

Hi;
A small post for my self-appreciation over AD (Active Directory) users group and Sharepoint. Here is my link for one of user's help on Tech-Net.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/fea8f336-1c7b-4533-b6a6-e4d0b14119d7

There is two ways you can add users in SP.

1. Domain\Domain Users

2. NT Authority \Authenticated users : Includes all domains.

Windows SharePoint Services includes three groups by default

Owners (administrator)

Members (contributor) &

Visitors (reader).

Domain groups can be added to any of these three. Basically you need to add the AD group (local) to a SharePoint group.

MOSS Site settings >> People and Groups >> and click on >> "ADD Users".

If you have created sharepoint groups you have to take "Permissions' level into consideration. This link can give you some more help for Permission level consideration.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/8f8053d0-8572-4177-bbf6-2a98d6a85475/

For Groups and permissions levels please go through http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101032221033.aspx

Thanks,

My Threads Link On MSDN For Self-Help..

Mukesh Giri's threads
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/user/threads?user=Mukesh%20Giri
Hope few things can help others too on similar issues..
Cheers,
Mukesh Giri

SharePoint Designer 2007 Videos : A Learning Curve

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is utilised for creating and customizing SharePoint sites and customizing applications on the SharePoint platform.

Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 efficiently, you can easily build sophisticated no-code solutions e.g :Reports,Data Views & workflows.

SharePoint Designer 2007 is now available as a free download. Link for free download try it out...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb190710

Introductory Video On SP Designer 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=0&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Customizing SharePoint Sites Video

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=1&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Creating & Modifying Layouts Pages

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=2&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Working with rule-Based Workflow Applications

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=3&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Building No-Code Sharepoint Applications

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=4&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Visual Studio Tight Integretion

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=5&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Feel free to post your question and comments if you require any help from my end in using SP-Designer 2007.

Cheers,

SharePoint Object Model : A Drill Down..

Hi:

I would be posting the code for basic and complete understanding of Sharepoint Object Model in detail..

Check out this place for code which i would be posting latter sometime.

Design view for the application i am gonna develope is shown.

Sharepoint 2007 ( MOSS ) Calender & Outlook

SharePoint 2007( MOSS ) has a two way sync with calendars in Outlook.So basically how to deal with its creation and synchronization ??

Steps :

Goto > Site Actions > Create > Tracking > Calender..

Once your calender is created to integrete it with Outlook.

Note : Upgrade to Outlook 2007 to get the full 2-way sync experience with MOSS ( SP 2007 ).

Goto > Lists > Actions > Connect to Outlook

Now your calender will be integreted with Outlook and you will find one more Calendeer tab in my case " Mukesh_Calender " with the list location been added to your outlook.

Cheers,

Synch Web Application : Failure

This is real pathetic to see such exception errors--

" Failure trying to synch web application "Some GUID" ContentDB "Some GUID" Exception message was Lock request time out period exceeded ".

Work-Around : Though you have to test it before implementing it in your production environment.

verify the number in cache.ini on all web-front ends in farm.

Ideally, different numbers indicate that the servers are not in sync.

Restting the password could solve your purpose.

Follow the KB article 934838 @

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838

Also sometimes Reseting the file system cache could resolved many issues.

So stop the timer services

Stop this service by right clicking on it

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% \Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID

> Leave the cache.ini as it is.

> Delete all other files (all guid.xml)since they are timer jobs related.

> Open cache.ini in notepad and change the number to 0.

Now start the "Timer Services".

Check again the value in cache.ini for 

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% \Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID ; 

if it has changed to some other value then 0; your all web server has been synched with same timer job definitions.

Cheers