re: One Very Long Day with WSS

Lee — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:46:45 GMT

Makes those TFS beta installations sound nice and straightforward in comparison!

re: One Very Long Day with WSS

Andy Burns — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:14:59 GMT

Wait until you look at reporting on workflows - that's just rotten. Call me old fashioned, but I just want a database table with workflows and events on it, but do we get that? Nope...

re: One Very Long Day with WSS

Shaun — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:36:27 GMT

Sounds like you've endured similar pain to myself, but with far greater success. I fought my way through creating a sharepoint workflow in visual studio, and ran into the same problems as you. However I didn't install the same extensions as you, I installed the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en">Office Server SDK</a>. Everyone seems to be working with different versions of tools! This makes it really hard to follow a lot of tutorials around the web, and makes the scope for potential problems that much larger.

Anyway, onto my point. I created a barebones workflow (just created a single task) and successfully deployed it to my sharepoint site. This all seemed to go well and after realising the deploy scripts couldn't handle spaces in the projec name it went even better! So the workflow template was installed, I associated with my pages list and told sharepoint to run it everytime an item is changed. All good, seems to work ok, until after triggering the workflow with an edit on a page, when I try to perform a further editing action it semi randomly throws the following exception:

[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.

Parameter name: s]

System.IO.StringReader..ctor(String s) +2712311

System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml) +44

Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WorkflowUtilities.GetAssociationDataValue(CachedWorkflow workflow, String xmlNodeName) +88

Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleDataSource.EnsurePageNotInLockingWorkflowIfInEditMode() +121

Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleDataSource.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +143

System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +77

System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161

System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1360

I'd love to hear from anyone who's had a similar problem.

re: One Very Long Day with WSS

Shaun — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:37:51 GMT

Didn't realise it auto linked URLs and the Office Server SDK link above is broken. Try this one:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

re: One Very Long Day with WSS

Thor — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:47:39 GMT

Had the same problems. My Xp machine installed ok, but on my 2003 server several items were missing.

You can't debug from xp, so the solution is to develop on a testserver....

And my templates looks differently in 2003. Ahhgr.