Sharepoint – Page 4 – Bruce Ng's software development blog

Allow workflows to change approval status

Follow the instructions of the last answer at the end of the page.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/9292c3ef-b456-4115-8b9c-bfa63782dfd5/workflow-can-use-app-permissions-feature-is-not-activating?forum=sharepointadmin

If Workflow Service Application is not displayed, enabled it by launching the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Ways to debug ASP.NET and Sharepoint webparts

Either run Debug from Visual Studio, which will retract and redeploy the project before deploying and more time consuming

Or, From “Debug”, select “Attach to process…” and attach the debugger to the w3wp.exe processes and start debugging. Make sure to open the browser and browse the site first to start the processes before attaching.

Add parameters to workflow programmatically

Follow the article

http://blog.degree.no/2011/08/sharepoint-2010-programmatically-set-workflow-initiation-parameters/

Test emails with SharePoint

use papercut

https://papercut.codeplex.com/

follow the article https://prasadpathak.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/sharepoint-using-papercut-for-testing-the-email-functionality-in-sharepoint/

Make sure the local SMTP server is created and configured and started from IIS 6.0
Disable the Simple Mail Server … service in Services
Set papercut to listen on port 25 local server

Start a SharePoint workflow programmatically

https://jainnitin2411.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/programmaticallystartsharepointworkflow/

Unable to load workflow actions from the server

Follow the link below to find the solution

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rajbugga/archive/2013/04/12/unable-to-load-workflow-actions-from-the-server-please-contact-your-server-administrator.aspx

Passing data from one ASP.NET page to another

Follow the article in the link below:

http://sharepoint.infoyen.com/2012/03/13/pass-page-values-from-one-to-another-page-in-asp-net/

Deploy WSP files to Sharepoint 2013

To replace

Update-SPSolution –Identity YourSolutionName.wsp –LiteralPath “C:YourSolutionName.wsp” –GacDeployment

To add

Add-SPSolution “c:DeployWSP{file name}.wsp”

Then go to Central admin to deploy

Excel Services Fix – “The workbook cannot be opened”.

Follow the article in the link to fix if this problem arises:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/excel_services__powerpivot_for_sharepoint_support_blog/archive/2013/05/21/excel-services-the-workbook-cannot-be-opened.aspx

Deploying Sharepoint timerjob

Whenever a new Sharepoint timerjob project is deployed, it will activate the feature on all Sharepoint web applications. Remember to go to Central Administrator and deactivate the feature on the web apps that don’t need it.