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January 13, 2012

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Create A Weather Web Part for SharePoint

UPDATE: June 2, 2011
I made some adjustments to the XSLT. If you've had problems getting this to work previously, you might want to try it again.
I wanted to add weather information to a SharePoint site (a "My Site" to be exact), but I wanted something relatively simple. Using the Page Viewer or Content Editor web parts was not really giving me what I wanted since that involved including snippets of markup and javascript which might also require signing up for the privilege. I also wasn't keen on including all of their branding. Just tell me what I'm missing outside when I'm stuck inside.

So I did some messing around with the RSS Viewer web part and got something working. I then found that the RSS Viewer has a 30-minute cache restriction that cannot be changed. I don't want to know how warm it was 29 minutes ago, I want to be able to refresh and know what the temperature is now. So I switched to the XML web part which is what I should have used to sta…

My SharePoint Workflow History Is History!

The other day I had a customer get in touch with me who is using a SharePoint document library with a basic, out-of-the-box approval workflow. The problem that they were having was that the approval status column was not displaying anything where previously it had displayed "Approved" with a handy link to the Workflow Status page. A page that shows a reasonably formatted Workflow History that they were using as proof for auditing purposes.

I'm not going to get into the discussion regarding whether or not this is appropriate or whether SharePoint auditing is the right answer. If you are interesting in a snapshot of that discussion, it has been pretty well covered here.

The reality is that we make these tools available to our customers and they use them (if we're lucky). I needed to figure out what was happening and what our options for resolving things for them were.

The issue stems from the "Workflow Auto Cleanup job" that is scheduled to run for each Share…

Ultimate Status Bar: Safari Extension

For anyone using Safari 5, this is a pretty great extension. If you are used to Chrome where you only see a status bar when you are hovering over a link, this is much like that with some additional bonus features. Follow the link below to get the details and give it a try.
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