I ran into a situation where I created a User Profile Property with the Replicable checkbox set, which had a really long name. There were no errors when saving the profile property, however later on I started receiving errors in the Event Log: failure trying to synch site [guid] for ContentDB [guid] WebApp [guid].  Exception…

I ran into an issue where hyperlinks in workflow task emails where being automatically changed by SharePoint from absolute hyperlinks to relative ones. Scenario: You create a custom Visual Studio workflow and use the CreateTask activity. You set your SPWorkflowTaskProperties.Description property to some HTML text. In your Description HTML text, you have an html hyperlink…

I ran into a BDC error, “Type does not match DotNet type of TypeDescriptor”, with a particular application definition I wrote. In this case, I had a specific finder method that took one input parameter (the identifier) that was of type System.Decimal. It turns out I didn’t specify a default value in the TypeDescriptor for…

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…