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Converting Word Document - Delay

Decawi — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:54 GMT

HI All,

I have a word document, which is the template document content type in my SharePoint document Library.

Creating the Word document, using K2's "Word Document Event", and subsequently, updating the context fields in the word doc, with a series of other "Word Document Events" works just fine. The new Word document appears in the document library right away. Then, I use yet another "Word Document Event", and convert the word document to a PDF, to be saved in the same Document Library.

K2 completes the task right away. I can see it in the view flow. But.. the converted PDF document does not show up in my Document Library for up to 15 minutes. Which is causing my email event to fail, becuase it can't find the PDF document to attach.

Has anyone experience delay issues with the conversion of a word document? And if so, any ideas how to get around it?

Thanks in Advance.. Dean

How to deploy using MSBUILD?

aasianov — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:06:23 GMT

Hi all...

I've been doing Blackpearl process development in Visual Studio against a dev server for a while and feel very comfortable with that...I can build and deploy processes no problem using Visual Studio's Deploy tool and K2 deployment wizard. However, now I need to deploy my process to a production server to which I can NOT connect via visual studio. So I created a deployment package using Visual Studio and tried to find some basic "how to" instructions on what do do next. I didn't really find any step by step instructions but what I could piece together resulted in me:

Copying the deployment files to the production server
Using remote desktop to log into the production server
Calling MSBUILD (see below) to deploy.

The MSBUILD gave errors (as below) and I don't have any idea where to go next. I also don't know MSBUILD and so I don't know if there are any settings that I should have set in Visual Studio, etc prior to creating the deployment package. My questions are:

What is the process for deploying a process to a production server?

Are there any settings in Visual Studio that I should have set?
Are there any other steps besides just building a process, creating a deployment package, and running MSBUILD against it on the production box?
What am I doing wrong below
Is there an article anywhere that clearly describes these steps?

How does MSBUILD know about the K2 server and where to deploy the asseblies (or conversely, how does K2 know what processes exist that belong to it...is it that they are deployed to a particular directory or in the GAC, etc.?)...I need to know this just so I have an engineering grasp of what's going on here

Thank you for your help (and the MSBUILD output is below)

-alex

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C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft
.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\MSBuild.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Depl
oyments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msbuild" /p:TestOnly=True /p:Environment=Rel
ease
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 2.0.50727.1433
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.1433]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2005. All rights reserved.

Build started 10/17/2008 7:44:05 PM.
__________________________________________________
Project "C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingB
oard2.msbuild" (default targets):

Target Deploy Processes:
__________________________________________________
Project "C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_Clos
ingBoard2.msbuild" is building "C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments
\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msbuild" (InitDeploy target(s)):

    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018: The "SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTask
" task failed unexpectedly.
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference n
ot set to an instance of an object.
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.DeploymentTask.I
nitialize()
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTas
k.Initialize()
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.Task.set_BuildEn
gine(IBuildEngine value)
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.Init
ializeTask(ITask task, ItemBucket bucket)
    C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2
.msbuild(73,5): error MSB4063: The "SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTask
" task could not be initialized with its input parameters.
Done building target "Deploy Processes" in project "WF_ClosingBoard2.msbuild" --
FAILED.

Done building project "WF_ClosingBoard2.msbuild" -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018: The "SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTask" ta
sk failed unexpectedly.
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not s
et to an instance of an object.
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.DeploymentTask.Initi
alize()
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTask.In
itialize()
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.Task.set_BuildEngine
(IBuildEngine value)
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.Initiali
zeTask(ITask task, ItemBucket bucket)
C:\Documents and Settings\an\Desktop\Deployments\Deployment\WF_ClosingBoard2.msb
uild(73,5): error MSB4063: The "SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.ExportProcessTask" ta
sk could not be initialized with its input parameters.
    0 Warning(s)
    2 Error(s)

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Worklist item and destination user ?

RajaAbdulla89 — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:53:36 GMT

Hello ,

My question is that how to make sure that the user opening the work list item is the user destination associated with it ? is there a k2 attribute that I can compare for this purpose ...

the case I am facing that I need to retrieve the actions from the work list item, but they are not being displayed .. even though the work list is delivered to the right user and the user can action the item through workspace ..

Hope the issue is clear ..

Thank you all ..

Repeating table and email action methodology review

nsterwald78 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:37:41 GMT

Hey all, if anyone has any insight to a solution for my situation I would greatly appreciate it.

The workflow I'm on right now is a managment recognition wf where a manager can request a reward for their employee. They may add as many items as they want (repeating table with 8 columns) and each entry has a reward drop down from an available list in SharePoint.

Please see attached.

So each reward has a number that corresponds with it (Title column in SP list, e.g. Amex has a Title entry of 12)

After submission, I have a line rule to trigger an email if a reward equals a certain number

so if a reward selection of 12 is selected, send an email to the vault for the amex card.

and here is my problem, In that email I have the fields from the repeating table

Reward amount - [TABLENAME_FIELDNAME]

Reward Qty - [TABLENAME_FIELDNAME]

and so on...

So the problem is if there are multiple lines in the workflow when submitted, the email contains every single value for all entries in the table, not just the entries in the table where the reward_ID = 12

How can you select just one line item set of data to email out rather than all values?

Hope that makes sense and thank you very much for your time and brain power!

Operation is not supported exception when trying to register Service Instance

JohanL — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:14:47 GMT

When trying to register a new Service Instance using files downloaded from the Internet (such as the K2 Case Management Framework), you might encounter the following error:

Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\K2 blackpearl\ServiceBroker\SourceCode.Solutions.CaseManagement.RulesEngine.dll' or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

To Resolve:

Stop the K2 blackpearl Server and go to the actual DLLs, right click them and go to Properties. Click on the Unblock button.

If you get this while trying to install the Case Management Framework, remember to do this in the CMF installation files\ServiceObjects\CaseRulesEngine folder as these DLLs are copied to the ServiceBroker folder when the bat files run.

Hope this helps someone!

Email Notifications in Default Client Event (Blackpearl 4.6.4)

Paula — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:55:00 GMT

We've installed K2 Blackpearl 4.6.4 and we're getting errors with email notifications in the default client event of workflows. The email notification doesn't send. We see previous posts written about this.

Here's the error in the event viewer log:

61007 Permanent failure sending message Notification: System.ArgumentException: The parameter 'address' cannot be an empty string.

Parameter name: address

at System.Net.Mail.MailAddress..ctor(String address, String displayName, Encoding displayNameEncoding)

at SourceCode.MessageBus.Imap.SmtpDestination.ToFullEmail(Dictionary`2 collection)

at SourceCode.MessageBus.Imap.SmtpDestination.Send(String title, MessageExtendedInformation extended, IEnumerable`1 attachments, MessageBodyReader[] messageBodies)

at SourceCode.MessageBus.Server.MessageBusRuntime.SourceCode.MessageBus.IMessageDestination.Send(String title, MessageExtendedInformation extended, IEnumerable`1 attachments, MessageBodyReader[] messageBodies)

We've used the Connection string editor tool and changed the SMTP TLS settings to NONE with port 25. Still getting the same error.

Please help :-)

How to make cell borders in layout

Michal — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:20:50 GMT

Hi,

Is there any way how to make border lines around layout cells in K2 Smartforms Designer? I have to display table data and I need to draw lines around each cell.

Thanks for help.

How to Hide the menu in K2 Worklist web part

bkashefipour — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:36:14 GMT

I need to hide the menu that shows under the folio field in the K2 worklist webpart since I dont want my users to be able to perform Release, Sleep, Delegate, Redirect, etc on their tasks.

They should only be able to open the task and nothing else.

There is no connection string for the destination email address

Krinavtm — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:18 GMT

After the blackpearl update .1550 I'm getting this error message " There is no connection string for the destination email address ......" when trying to use en E-mail event.

Could you please advise.

"HostServer Service registration failed" when configuring K2 Blackpearl

sosborne — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:26:39 GMT

I'm experiencing an error when running the K2 blackpearl configuration wizard. The error occurs during the "K2 Server" portion of the configuration process, when registering the K2Server.exe service. Here is the entry in the installation log:

"SourceCode.Server.Configuration","15002 Hostserver Service registration failed: Process must exit before requested information can be determined.

I'll add that I am getting this error after upgrading K2 blackpearl to version 4.6.5 and K2 smartforms to 1.0.2. The initial upgrades for these 2 products went fairly smoothly (other than having to create a new app pool for K2 smartforms), but when I went to re-configure K2 blackpearl, I get the above message, and the K2Server service is no longer registered.

I've already tried disabling antivirus to no avail.

Has anyone else experienced this issue after installing the newest version of either K2 blackpearl or smartforms? This is my development environment, so it's a single server installation.

Kick off a workflow from existing InfoPath form

dpknudsen — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:36:39 GMT

I had a user ask this question, and I haven't been able to come up with any ideas. I'm hoping somebody in the community has done something similar and might share how it was accomplished.

I have a pretty simple workflow that is kicked off via an InfoPath form template, reviewed a couple of times, and then saved to a form library once approved. What we've found is that users occasionally need to submit the exact same form (has a lot of manually enetered data) a second or third time at later dates. The user has asked if there was a way for them to open the previously saved form, make a comple of changes, and re-submit it as a new workflow (with updated timestamps).

Has anyone done anything similar? Possibly integrated a button in to the form that clears/resets values and allows the form to be submitted again?

Thanks in advance.

There is no connection string for the destination email address

Krinavtm — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:30 GMT

After the update to the .1550 bleackpearl version, every time I use a new E-mail event I'm getting this error "There is no connection string for the destination email address". However, the E-mail events created before the update are working fine.

Now, that I'm using escalations with e-mails and I getting the error again.

Could you please help.

Get Name of destination user from the AD Group dynamically who completed the activity

Sravanthi — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:49:49 GMT

Hi People :)

I am trying to obtain the display name of the person who completes the particular activity. Suppose, my active directory 'A' contains IDs A1, A2, A3 etc. The destination users for a particular activity is set to all the users in the AD Group 'A'. The task is assigned to A1, A2, A3 etc. A2 completes the task first and thus the task expires for the rest of the members in the group.

When A2 completes the task, i want the name of A2 to be displayed. I will display it through a smart object event and a server event. I want to display "Task completed by <Display Name>" i.e. "Task completed by Mike" (A2 = Mike)

I tried out a few things.

1) There is an OOB Smart Object "Users and Groups". This has four list methods. When i use Get_E_mail_For_Group_Users, i can obtain the display name. However, i will have to send the AD Group Name as Group Fully Qualified Name and Domain Name i.e. 'K2'. However, i do not based on what values i can filter for the correct Display Name because there is no Process ID or Activity Name on which i can filter :(

2) The same OOB Smart Object "Users and Groups" has another method i.e. Get_E_mail_For_User. When i pass the Fully Qualified Name of the user, i get the Display name. However, i am unable to implement in code :( I can pass the fully qualified name from the Activity Destination Instance OOB Smart Object filtering based on Activity Name and Process Instance ID.

When i implement in code to obtain the display name from Get_E_mail_For_Group_Users, it is working fine. However, if i implement the same piece of code for Get_E_mail_For_User, i get an error at ExecuteList() method stating, it should be set to a method name instance.

I further checked the XML of the smart object. The methods Get_E_mail_For_Users and Get_E_mail_For_Groups are of type 'read' and the other two methods are of type 'list'. Is there another way to implement the code?

Kindly help me out.

Thank you in advance :)

Sravanthi

Adding Row in List

kevinlky — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:02:07 GMT

Hi All,

Will like to ask if there is any method on triggering "then apply the changes made to the row on the editable list" when item is being added to the list item?

Right now, i will need to add an additional one more row and delete away to in order for the 1 item to be added in the list view.

I did try on adding rule in the textbox, that say when the textbox changes "then apply the changes made to the row on the editable list" . The row is being added which is what I acquire, however a duplicate row will be added as well.

Calendar data removing zulu time

daerne — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:56:14 GMT

I'm trying to create a dynamic title with the date from the date picker control from the smartform. However, every effort I've tried to remove the 06:00:00Z time from the picker hasn't yielded any positive results.

I've tried to convert the field via Expression and Style, however when the calendar value is sent to the Title text box, it see's the value and throws the Zulu time on the end.

David

Hide Redirect, Sleep, Delegate action from K2 Worklist in SharePoint 2010

kalvinc — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:00:25 GMT

Any clue how could we hide/disable the action of Sleep, Redirect and delegate from K2 Worklist in SharePoint 2010?

K2 4.5 1370 upgrade to 4.6.5

pu43x — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:31:56 GMT

Now that we have migrated our environment to WS2K8R2 we started to upgrade our test environment, however we have hit a problem where the setup manager said the K2 databases as "incomplete".

After looking at the logs it appears this section related to the problem with the K2_K2SQLUM database and that not being upgraded properly.

"7807","2013-05-02 02:16:09","Error","15","15002","ERROR","SourceCode.Database.Configuration.ConfigureDBs","15002 SqlException.Number != -2, so not handling it as a timeout. SqlException.Number = 8152. Exception: String or binary data would be truncated.
Encrypting existing passwords
The statement has been terminated.","anonymous","0.0.0.0","LUWIN90106:C:\software\K2 4.6.5 Installation\K2 blackpearl 4.6.5 (4.12060.1550.0)\Installation","7807","064459e6457b46eaa0d171509180100a",""
"7808","2013-05-02 02:16:09","Info","15","15001","INFO","SourceCode.Database.Configuration.ConfigureDBs","15001 K2_K2SQLUM - Execution of script failed: SourceCode.Data.CustomUM_4_6.upgrade.sql","anonymous","0.0.0.0","LUWIN90106:C:\software\K2 4.6.5 Installation\K2 blackpearl 4.6.5 (4.12060.1550.0)\Installation","7808","4e6a98cb7bdb4d0bbc523ed7e3c38280",""

The k2 host server now fails to start with the following error message:

"257755","2013-05-02 14:18:47","Error","System","2001","ServerStartError","SourceCode.Hosting.Server.Runtime.HostServerEngine.StartHostServer","2001 Error Starting Host Server: Could not find stored procedure 'Identity.FreeServerLocks'.","system","::1","LUWIN90106:C:\Program Files (x86)\K2 blackpearl\Host Server\Bin","257755","630f7291d099480e9579b6b26971cfb6",""

To me, it seems the upgrade ran into a timeout issue when applying the updates to the K2_K2SQLUM database, however when I rerun the setup manage it says this database is up to date, and all the others need updating....

I have raised a ticket, but thought it might be useful to see if anybody else has any suggestions on what to do.

Thanks,

K2 locking out an AD account

Wee Hong — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:24:10 GMT

I have a user account will lock out whenever she logged into the K2 worklist or other pages.

Other users have no such issue.

Please advise.

Save Infopath repeating table in a Sharepoint list

gmbx25 — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:31:42 GMT

I would like to know if there is any way of saving a repeating table in InfoPath to a Sharepoint List? Each line in the repeating table needs to be a List Item.

Thanks for help.

replacing a K2 server

SteveJones — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:55:21 GMT

I need to replace a production blackpearl server (windows server 2003) with a new one (2008). Has anyone done this, and if so can you list the exact procedure to do so?

Thanks

Hidden Column To Visible

kevinlky — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:18:58 GMT

Hi All,

I have try to unhide a column when in a certain state. However, the hidden column that is unhide during the state have some width issue.

Column that was unhide was squeeze into the extreme right which required suser to drag the column into a readable column.

What i did for work around is to create an additional view with the hidden column shown and width being set. Only when the requirement are met then the view will be shown. However, this will cause my form with more view.

Anyone facing the same issue as I am? or does have other work around?

Problems creating SharePoint List Items where the List has Lookup fields

OpenBook — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:23:24 GMT

Hi ,

I have a Problems creating SharePoint List Items where the List has Lookup fields

K2 workflow smart object

Hestia — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:47:41 GMT

K2 exposes the workflow data via smart objects created for each workflow deployed on K2 server.

It creates workflow SO only when the option "Create workflow smartobject" is selected during deployment of workflow. Please see the screenshot attached to this post.

If I have existing process in the company where "Create workflow smartobject" option may not be selected during deployment and

if k2 process is re-deployed the with the above option selected, will the existing k2 processes instances in production be readily retrieved using the newly created smart object?

will the smart object automatically retrieve the existing K2 process Instances using the SO service?

Is there any additional step required to sync instance data with newly created SO?

Email HTML with SmartObject

kevinlky — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:41:43 GMT

Hi all,

Understanding that from the previous post http://www.k2underground.com/forums/p/12610/36913.aspx#36913 , which have explain on what needs to be done. Is there any more detail guide on what need to do to archive the result?

Email activity with List of item

kevinlky — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:47:37 GMT

Hi all,

I will like to ask whether is there any solution of embedding the list of item from a smartobject into a email which will allow the email to list in a readable format?

Understanding that from the previous post http://www.k2underground.com/forums/p/12610/36913.aspx#36913 , which have explain on what needs to be done.

Is there any more detail guide on what need to do to archive the result or any other easier way out?