workflow

Cherry-picking from git to svn (or, How to keep a project history in git and releases in svn)

I'm in a position where I'm the only one using git, everybody else is using svn. I've used 'git svn' to connect to the team svn and mostly it works just fine. Lately, I've started a project initially on my own, separate git repo and now I need to merge stuff from it to the svn. However, I still would like to keep tweaking the implementat...

A strong case for WF

I have struggled for so long to find a compelling use case for workflow (ie: WF) as against regular imperative programming. Each time I fall back to the conclusion that I should just leave WF out or defer getting into it until later. But I keep having this nagging feeling that there's something am missing. Does anyone know any book tha...

Dynamic pages and controls with Asp .NET

Hi, We are starting with the design of an ASP .NET Web UI using WCSF as the UI FW. We are evaluating some FW which will allow us to build dynamic pages, dynamic as in, deciding at runtime what user controls will be displayed and in what order. Also possibly, the pages and order in which they will be displayed. We are looking at Page Fl...

Word templates populated automatically from list fields from a SharePoint custom list?

Hi, Is it possible to automatically create Word documents which include list fields from a custom SharePoint list? here is the scenario: - custom list (over 100 columns) - Word templates (not sure where is best to store them yet) - Entry Form will provide data for the templates (or partial data, ie Client name, Sales Rep) - a form that...

Can we use the task list from "another" web site of same site collection as task list for Sharepoint Workflow?

Can I specify/use an existing task list from "another" website but from same site collection to be used in my Sequential Sharepoint Workflow? I am using Visual Studio to code the workflow, and it will be deployed in /subsite, the root site already has a task list to which everyone has connected to Outlook etc...Instead of creating a new ...

Mercurial Novice - Very Confused

Hi All, Im in the process of trying to get my head round a dvcs such as mercurial. Im getting quite confused with certain points though. Firstly, a bit of context: At the minute i mostly use subversion, and it works fine for my workflow, Mostly the repository is for my own use, im the only web developer,and i only ever submit raw code ...

Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) Delay

I'm working with the the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 using Wf4 to write a new workflow for approving resource requests. In my workflow, I would like for a request to expire after a few days if no approval has been made for the request. We did this in WF 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008) by adding a Delay timer into an EventDrivenAct...

Python Permutation Program Flow help

Hello world, i found this code at activestate, it takes a string and prints permutations of the string. I understand that its a recursive function but i dont really understand how it works, it'd be great if someone could walk me through the program flow, thanks a bunch! import sys def printList(alist, blist=[]): if not len(alist): ...

How to manage multiple versions of the same record

I am doing short-term contract work for a company that is trying to implement a check-in/check-out type of workflow for their database records. Here's how it should work... A user creates a new entity within the application. There are about 20 related tables that will be populated in addition to the main entity table. Once the ...

Window Workflow database connections

I'm using Windows Workflow with SqlWorkflowPersistenceService. I initialize SqlWorkflowPersistenceService with a connection string and everything works fine. Using the Activity Monitor in SQL Server Management Studio, I can see that the SqlWorkflowPersistenceService executes stored procedures in the database. When I stop my Windows ser...

Why do I get different results from profiler in Visual Studio 2010 RC

I have setup 1 project in VS2010 RC. A workflow console application that simply counts from 1 to 10000 and writes each number to console. When I execute "F5" this application it takes minutes to finish, but when i execute this application with profiling it finishes in 3-5 seconds. Does anyone know why? ...

workflow assign task to multiple users

I have MOSS. I want to make a page where a user, say administrator, could send some instructions to a server, for example using standard library and make task for a group of users forcing them to read files. After the reading users would press "already read it" and administrator would know who did it/who did not. I created simple workfl...

Some help needed with setting up the PERFECT workflow for web development with 2-3 guys using subversion.

Hey guys! I run a small web development company along side with my brother and friend. After doing extensive research I have decided on using subversion for version control. Here is how I currently plan on running typical development. Keep in mind there are 3 of us each in a separate location. I set up an account with springloops (sp...

git strategy to have a set of commits limited to a particular branch

I need to merge between dev and master frequently. I also have a commit that I need to apply to dev only, for things to work locally. Earlier I only merged from dev to master, so I had a branch production_changes that contained the "undo commit" of the dev special commit. and from the master, I merged this. Used to work fine. Now each...

Workflow UI Integration - is WF a good approach?

Somewhat similar to this question, except we haven't decided that we're going with WF yet. I'm working on designing a system that requires a series of decisions and activities on a "work object," so I naturally began to consider workflow, specifically WF. What I'm wondering is if WF is a good solution for a situation like the followi...

Can we host a Workflow Service as a Windows Service?

I am working on a logging application that requires me to have a Workflow that is exposed as a Service (Workflow Service). We want to host it as a Windows Service (don't want to host workflow service as .svc file in IIS). Another reason for having it as windows service is to be able to communicate with the service through the Named pipes...

How to create custom workflow in SPD 2010 to move a document from one doc library to another doc library

Tell me how to create a custom workflow in sharepoint designer 2010 to move a document/item in one document library(say "Proposals") to another document library(say "Approved") after the document/item gets approved. ...

Consume a WF hosted in IIS as a WCF service using ASP.NET 1.1 Client

As the title says, I would like to consume a WF workflow using a ASP.NET 1.1 client. The workflow is hosted on IIS as a .svc service. I have a .NET 3.5 winforms test client that uses wsHttpContextBinding. Because I need to put a WorkflowID in Context to have my workflow rehydrated and continued, I use this piece of code: var Svc = new...

Sharing a fabfile across multiple projects

Fabric has become my deployment tool of choice both for deploying Django projects and for initially configuring Ubuntu slices. However, my current workflow with Fabric isn't very DRY, as I find myself: copying the fabfile.py from one Django project to another and modifying the fabfile.py as needed for each project (e.g., changing the w...

How to prevent certain workflows from showing in SharePoint's Workflow.aspx page for a list.

I have a few workflows associated with a SharePoint list (e.g., Pages). Some are written as SharePoint WF workflows in Visual Studio, but some are no-code workflows created in SharePoint Designer. I programmatically start the WF workflows, but the no-code ones are started manually. When a user goes to "/_layouts/Workflow.aspx?ID=&List=&S...