Steven Boldt

Steven is a senior consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about Microsoft technology including SharePoint, BizTalk and InfoPath. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SharePoint and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in C#.
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Mar2

Populating a repeating table in InfoPath programmatically

There are times when you connect to a secondary data source in InfoPath and would like to automatically populate a repeating table based off the source. This can be done whether it is through a database or SharePoint data connection. First step would be to create a secondary data connection in InfoPath. Once you have done this, drag a repeating table onto your page. For my example, I placed th...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Tuesday, 2 Mar 2010 06:14.
0 Comments | Categories: InfoPath, SharePoint 2007, SQL Server 2005

 
Sep22

InfoPath Form Contact Selector Control DOs and DON’Ts

If you want to add a control to your InfoPath form to do an active directory lookup, then the Contact Selector Control will work for you. In order to add this control to your form, there are some certain guidelines that need to be followed. DOs: To add the control to your form, you first need to make it available in the custom control section of your design controls section. To do so, you ne...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009 06:46.
1 Comment | Categories: InfoPath, SharePoint 2007

 
Sep15

How to publish K2 BlackPoint workflow & InfoPath Form Services with code behind to SharePoint

There are a lot of instructions out there on how to publish InfoPath forms with code behind to SharePoint. However, I have not come across any complete documentation on how to do this from beginning to end with K2 BlackPoint to SharePoint. One of the problems that will usually arise is that if you have multiple activities with in the K2 workflow, you will not be able to surface the IP form to t...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 07:28.
1 Comment | Categories: InfoPath, K2 blackpoint, SharePoint 2007, K2

 
Aug7

Creating Item Level Security for an Event Receiver based upon metadata (Part 2)

After completing the process of creating a MOSS configuration list and the SetConfiguration method in the event receiver (Creating Item Level Security for an Event Receiver based upon metadata (Part 1)), it’s now time to create the methods for actually implementing the security for the individual documents. SetSecurityForItem: This method will set the applicable security for the document. F...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Friday, 7 Aug 2009 03:18.
1 Comment | Categories: SharePoint 2007

 
Aug7

Creating Item Level Security for an Event Receiver based upon metadata (Part 1)

First step in the process is to create a basic feature for MOSS. For more information in regarding the template, view the information here: Creating a SharePoint Custom Event Handler as a feature - Basics The steps I took in creating item level security utilized a custom list in MOSS. This way, the user can customize the setting of the feature and also the group/user permissions that will be s...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Friday, 7 Aug 2009 03:15.
1 Comment | Categories: SharePoint 2007

 
Aug7

Creating a SharePoint Custom Event Handler as a feature - Basics

I’ll review the basic steps on creating a SharePoint custom event handler. You begin by opening up Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and create a new class project. Reference the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly and then rename the default.cs class to the name that you want to give to your event handler. Also, remember to add your using statement for Microsoft.SharePoint. Depending on which type of...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Friday, 7 Aug 2009 02:44.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2007