Assigning resource to multiple tasks in Microsoft Project 2007

Today at work I had a request from my customer for assigning him to all the tasks of all the projects. Though the number of projects are less but tasks are more then 700 per projects. And I was kind of WTH!

Then I find out following option to - Assign a project server resources to multiple tasks in Microsoft Project 2007.

1. Select all the tasks your want to add your resource.

2. Goto Tools -> Assign Resource

3. Select resource you want to assign to all the selected task.

4. Click on Assign.

5. Assign button will go gray and click on Close.

6. That is it!

Approved to use free version...

SP2010 V4.master page changes results into "/rcconsole.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file."

SP2010 V4.master page changes results into "/rcconsole.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file."

While making UI - Colors & Logo changes for a Record Center Template of a SP2010 site this particular file - rcconsole.aspx got mesed up. I made some changes to V4.master pages and it was working fine for all other site pages excewpt the one. The resolution I got is - Do not make inline or markup changes in any master pages related to CSS. All CSS chagnes should go in corresponding .CSS file.

SharePoint 2010 Search - maxdownloadsize

In reference to my earlier post.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/brent/archive/2010/07/19/sharepoint-server-2010-maxdownloadsize-and-maxgrowfactor.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Search do not index file size more then 16 MB

One of the interesting feature I come to know about SharePoint todat is - it will not crawl any file more then 16 MB unless to told it to go and crawl larger files size. This is besically a setting in a registry under the location (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Applications\<guid>-crawl-#\Gathering Manager) with the name - MaxDownloadSize. By default it will have 16 go ahead and change it to any larger number then think. Not sure what max you can put.

System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager

After compiling my .NET 3.5 application warning messages suggested me to use ConfigurationManager instead of ConfigurationSetting of System.Configuration class. But  I was not able to use it for sometime. Then after googling I found that you need to add a explicit reference to System.Configuration for your project.

SharePoint 2010 Resource Link

http://blogs.technet.com/b/vedant/archive/2010/06/13/sharepoint-2010-resource-guide.aspx

SharePoint 2010 - Search results are not appearing

In SharePoint 2010 even though the crawler has completed its job for a particular site collection/site and when you make a search - Results are not shown. One of the result could be the association of the site collection with Search Service Application. To do that -
Goto Central Admin -> Application management -> Manage web applications - Select the web application you want to ssociate -> Service Connection (from ribbon) -> select the Search Service Application to associate. Save the configuration and redo the search.

Error from SharePoint site: Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values.

Though the above mentioned problem can be caused by so many other things but one of the probable cause in mentioned in the solution section.
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Problem:
I have 2 site collection within a web application.
http://server:9999/sites/1
http://server:9999/sites/2
Crawler is able to crawel Site Collection 1 whereas not site collection 2 and giving following error. Errorinfo is "Error from SharePoint site: Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values."
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Solution: (Groups means SiteGroup)
We have got solution to his problem (along with MS Premier Support Team).
THere was a probem with Description field value of Groups. While creating a Groups in SharePoint 2010 - using SP2010 Object model we were supplying NULL as description but SharePoint 2010 Search Crawler DO NOT LIKE IT. Groups must have some description attached to it.

But the amazing thing is while creating a group with NULL as description it will get created. So at first GROUPS should not have created.

Once we got the source of issue we created a small app to update the description of Group and Crawl was back to normal.

Web Cite

This is just for information, I like the concept and work by this org. You may also like it.

WebCite

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Source code of the .NET Framework Libraries

Source code of the .NET Framework Libraries - This is one is the interesting and exciting thing I ever think of. Yes, Now .NET developers can debug the source of the .NET Libraries. This could help a lot to the developers struggling with their complex / simple source code.

I am writing this in reference to the following article posted on the internet. Pls. following this for further detail.

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries



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Workflow in MOSS

It's been 3 years I have been using MOSS but I never got chance of creating a Workflow, nor I did try to learn it :(. The sad part if I have never tried it and good part is its such a great functionality to use.

So I how did I design my first work flow - I used web browser to create it. There is other way to do it - Microsoft SharePoint Designer, and one more way to do it by using Visual Studio 2005 and +.

Questions came in my mind -

1. How to create multi step workflow from browser?
ANS:(use SP Designer)
2. How to edit workflow in SharePoint Designer?
ANS : (File -> Open Workflow -> Select workflow to edit.)
3. How do I add more conditions to a workflow engine?
4. How do I add more actions to workflow engine?
5. How do I embed business logic in workflow?

-S