This is an old one, but some co-workers ran into this again recently on a project. When you have a SharePoint workflow that assigns tasks (either Designer or Visual Studio workflow), when you change the Assigned To column on the task list to allow Multiple Selections, your workflow will hang and become unresponsive when a…

I’ve seen several examples of creating document converters in SharePoint that convert documents to PDF format, using tools like Aspose and other print-based solutions. I recently did a proof of concept for a customer that used a different product, Outside In PDF Export from Oracle. This is an interpretive converter that can take a slew…

While working on a Timer Job project, I needed a flexible way to store one-time configuration settings. I was using a SharePoint Feature and FeatureReceiver to install and activate the Timer Job, so I decided to use the Feature.XML file as a repository for the initial configuration settings Job. I used the Properties node of…

I’m working on a project that imports over 1 million users from an Oracle database used with SharePoint/Forms Authentication into the SharePoint user profile store. This is done as a custom SharePoint timer job that pulls the users from the DB and creates/updates User Profiles through the SharePoint API. When running a job on a…

Recently I saw an access denied error when a user tried to edit a SharePoint Designer workflow task. The error did not occur if the user was a site collection administrator, but did occur even if they had full control to the site, list, and task list. Running through the Request Access pages, it appeared…