The importance of synchronous event handlers

Finally a good explanation on the issues we face with SharePoint 2010 compared with SharePoint 2007. We have a global unique document id which enables us to support quality requirements such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO 9000. Everytime a document is added to SharePoint we give it a unique id and makes a MD5 hash of the metadata and document in order to prove that the document was indeed created on the specific date. When making a major approval, publishing, we run a workflow which prompts various users for a electronic signature which is stored with the document.

This works great in SharePoint 2007. We use ItemAdded to add the unique document id. However, we sometimes face some issues with SharePoint 2010. Obviously it is related to the timing om ItemAdded which is used. As it runs asynchronous we cannot be certain when the code is run - so sometimes we experience that the code is run and a unique document id is assigned to the document, but when we check the document afterwards the field is empty.

Setting ItemAdded to run synchronous solves our issue. Thanks for the hint.

Exformatics ESDH klar til SharePoint 2010

Images in a dropdown list - SELECT

Rumours says that Microsoft will announce support for jQuery in SharePoint 2010, so better get started. We have used AJAX and more recently jQuery for the last 3 years in combination with SharePoint and it has proved very useful. And even if Microsoft don't support jQuery I believe it will be a major development platform for advanced end-user interfaces in the future - also for SharePoint.

Check out this example for how to enhance your existing drop down lists to include images - yes, it looks so much nicer - and navigation is like a dream.

SharePoint 2010 wiki's

Using Wiki's in SharePoint 2007 can be done, but it is a first version type of product. Luckily Microsoft has announced better wiki support in SharePoint 2010 with Managed Keywords which can be used to create tag clouds and home pages can be edites as wiki's - a huge step forward for WYSIWIG editing. I found this blog interesting.

More on SharePoint 2010

Came across this blog on SharePoint 2010.

More on SharePoint 2010

Doing research on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 I came across various articles and I found this from Lars Fastrup quite useful. Brief and to the point.