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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Apr14

BizTalk Help Tips (Enlisting exception error)

Here’s a helpful hint, in case you run into a problem trying to enlist an orchestration. If you run into an error while enlisting an orchestration after deploying it to the server, you might want to consider if you followed the proper steps to deploy the orchestration. Common knowledge is to ensure that the proper assembly is available in the GAC upon the server you deployed the BizTalk orchest...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Wednesday, 14 Apr 2010 11:32.
0 Comments | Categories: BizTalk

 
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

 
Nov19

K2 Tips & Tricks #2 – Using the InfoPath toolbar Submit button as a task action

Sometimes, when using K2 blackpoint or K2 blackpearl, you encounter InfoPath forms that you only have one choice in the workflow. For example, you have an InfoPath form that the originator fills out and submits to IT. Then, IT fills out the required information and submits the form to accounting. No decision is made, just filling out the information needed and submitting the form. With the Info...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 10:28.
0 Comments | Categories: InfoPath, K2, K2 blackpearl, K2 blackpoint

 
Nov18

K2 Tips & Tricks #1 – Displaying the correct InfoPath view in the client event

From my own personal experience and hearing the frustration of others, there are some times when integrating an InfoPath form that it won’t display the correct view on certain activities. Usually, this is a random occurrence and will result in the form displaying the default view instead of the desired one. Well, now, this problem can be resolved with a very easy fix! More then likely, at one...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 03:11.
0 Comments | Categories: K2 blackpoint, InfoPath, K2, K2 blackpearl

 
Oct7

Cloning a K2 workflow process from InfoPath

I encountered a situation at a client that had a requirement for cloning an InfoPath form by the click of a button. They wanted the ability to kick off a new work item and retain part of the forms information. The reason being that they might fill out anywhere from 1 – 200 form with some of the information always remaining the same for that particular instance. One thing to note, the InfoPath f...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 05:40.
0 Comments | Categories: InfoPath, K2 blackpoint, K2, K2 blackpearl

 
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

 
Aug10

Get current row value from an InfoPath repeating table

There will be times that you will find yourself wanting to update a particular value in a repeating table and/or populate details based upon a selected row in a repeating table. This can be done fairly easily by code. Two of the ways that I accomplished this was either through adding a button to a column in the repeating table or on the “Changed” event of the control in the repeating table. I...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Monday, 10 Aug 2009 01:45.
2 Comments | Categories: InfoPath

 
Aug7

Populating a list box in InfoPath 2007 Form Services from a SQL Stored Procedure

For those of you that have tried developing an InfoPath 2007 form that is browser-enabled will agree with me that there can be a lot of headaches associated with it. A lot of the controls and functionality of InfoPath are limited when compatibility is browser-enabled. However, there are ways around things, just can be more time consuming. That being said, there is the option of writing code to...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Friday, 7 Aug 2009 03:39.
3 Comments | Categories: InfoPath, SQL Server 2005

 
Aug7

Invalid value error installing K2 Blackpoint

When installing K2 Blackpoint (http://www.k2.com/en/blackpoint.aspx) you might encounter the following error: Arguments:  Exception: Value was invalid. Parameter name: sddlForm StackTrace:    at System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier..ctor(String sddlForm)    at SourceCode.SetupManager.Program.ensureUserPrivileges()    at SourceCode.SetupManager.Program.Main(String[] sArgs) If this er...
Posted by Steven Boldt on Friday, 7 Aug 2009 03:32.
0 Comments | Categories: K2 blackpoint, K2