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Where are comments stored within a SharePoint Integrated K2 Workflow?

For those that have leveraged K2’s SharePoint Workflow Integration (SPWI) process type within K2 Studio or Visual Studio, there is the ability to leverage K2 generated task pages. Within these pages, there is the ability for the user to add comments...

Posted to From The Bench by Bob on Thu, Sep 2 2010

useAppPoolCredientials property must be set to be true (IIS 7)

After K2 is installed, the useAppPoolCredientials property under system.webServer/security/authentication/windowsAuthentication in the web.config file for each of K2's virtual directories (Workspace, RuntimeServices, and ViewFlow) in the site hosting...

Posted to blackdoor by sams on Tue, Aug 24 2010

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day : Using the SSRS Service Broker to generate PDFs (and other formats)

The other day I was chatting with Eric from the US (who was down in Singapore recently to do a K2 event). He mentioned that in his demos, he would show the capability to generate PDFs using the out-of-the-box features. Hold On here.. What was that???...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Tue, Aug 17 2010

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day : Using the SQL Service Broker

I have been asked this question a few times so I thought this might be a good topic to document down for any new users out there. Note that in 4.5, the official version of the Dynamic SQL Service Broker is now included in the base install and is supported...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Tue, Aug 3 2010

New Wizard in K2 Designer for SharePoint

The recent release of KB001110 saw a brand new wizard make it’s way into the K2 Designer for SharePoint (the Silverlight one). I say “brand new” but the IPC Wizard has been around in the product since the early days of K2.net 2003 now with the release...

Posted to Ramble On by jonno on Fri, Jul 16 2010

Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, blackpoint, blackpearl

How to use the Generate Document web service solution in a K2 process

Firstly, host the web service solution in IIS, I created an IIS application, disabling anonymous access an enabling Windows Authentication. Download and register the dynamic web service for K2. http://www.k2underground.com/groups/dynamic_web_service_smartobject_service...

Posted to Ramble On by nicholas.kotze@k2workflow.com on Fri, Jul 16 2010

Web service to create a Word document against a document template

So often in process driven applications you would like to generate Word Documents against a pre-defined document template. This article outlines, and provides and example web service , on how to achieve just that. This is one way of doing it, and I am...

Posted to Ramble On by nicholas.kotze@k2workflow.com on Fri, Jul 16 2010

Slow startup for K2 components when machine has no internet access

Over the last few weeks, I have found that there has been some start performance issues when the machine does not have internet access (e.g. a virtual machine configured to have "local" network settings). This causes a number of components to...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Wed, Jul 14 2010

The SharePoint Configuration Wizard

With the KB001110 update, the installation and configuration of the K2 for SharePoint components occurs after the K2 Setup Manager completes. Prior to this update, the installation and configuration of the solutions included in the K2 for SharePoint components...

Posted to K2 Product Management by MikeT on Fri, Jul 9 2010

Filed under: K2 for SharePoint Configuration Wizard, Configuration, Installation, SharePoint, Solution

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day: PerfMon counters in 4.5

It is worthwhile to note that if you try to add K2 performance counters in 4.5, you will notice that in perfmon, the Add button is disabled. The key reason for this is that performance counter logging is disabled by default for performance reasons. However...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Sun, Jun 13 2010

Process Portal site template not available on Publishing Portal

If you have recently downloaded the K2 for SharePoint 2010 Alpha bits, and got them running - you may have noticed that the Process Portals site template is not available on a Publishing Portal site. This is OOTB functionality of SharePoint as you will...

Posted to to the (Share)Point by LeonG on Mon, Jun 7 2010

Filed under: Process Portals Site Template, K2 for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day: Task Allocation SmartObjects

Did you know that the Task Allocation Service Object done by Olaf is now included as part of the base out-of-the-box services in 4.5? If you are not too familar with the service, I'll give you a quick overview of what this set of SmartObjects can...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Wed, Jun 2 2010

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day: DirectExecution

DirectExecution is a new 4.5 feature that works with the K2 ADO.NET provider and the out-of-the-box SQL related brokers namely SmartBox and SQLService (aka Dynamic SQL Services). Basically this feature enables you to pass the K2 SmartObject ADO.NET query...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Tue, Jun 1 2010

Updating column type Hyperlink or Picture in SharePoint through SmartObject API

I ran into this problem the other day, and realised it was not common knowledge on how to update a SmartObject property of type URL via the API. You need to build up a SmartObjectHyperlinkProperty, so the full source code to do an update of a SmartObject...

Posted to Ramble On by nicholas.kotze@k2workflow.com on Thu, May 13 2010

K2 4.5 Tip of the Day - First inline function/Where the heck is my icon?

I have been having some fun creating a custom inline function and it was somewhat easy to create a new function without much hassle. Now I am not going to go through the entire documented process as per the Excel Services Inline Function (I would recommend...

Posted to Johnny's K2 Blog by johnny on Tue, May 11 2010

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