Sharepoint designer : Workflow is not start automatically

I’ve been playing with SharePoint Designer Workflows heavily for the past few days. Suddenly I came across the problem of these workflows does not start automatically though I select the option to start the workflow when an item is created or modified in a list or library.
Browse the web and found the reason of installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 which caused the problem. This behavior occurs because a security fix in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 prevents declarative workflows from starting automatically under the system account.

You could fall in to 1 of the 3 scenarios given below while you faced this problem…
1) The Windows SharePoint Services Web application runs under a user's domain account.
2) The user logs in by using this domain account.
3) The site displays the user name as System Account.
Answer / Solution
Set the application pool to use a different user account than System Account.
Step by Step Guide.
1) Open SharePoint Central Administration.
2) Go to Operations Tab.
3) Under Security Configurations click on Service Accounts.
4) Select “Web application pool” option button.
5) In the web service drop down box select “Windows SharePoint Services Web Application”.
6) And in the Application pool drop down, select the application pool you want.
7) Next select the “Configurable” option button and then type the user name and password of a user having rights to assign to an application pool.













8) Go to command prompt and type iisreset /noforce
9) Make sure to test the workflow log-in in to SharePoint other than System Account.

Using SharePoint Calculated Columns to Display Current Month List Items

1. Created First Day Of Month

   =DATE(YEAR([Created]),MONTH([Created]),1)

2. Created Last Day Of Month

   =DATE(YEAR([Created]),MONTH([Created])+1,1)-1

I then added the below filters to view:

Richtextbox in sharepoint

<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePointSD" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>


<SharePointSD:InputFormTextBox runat="server" ID="RichTextBox" ValidationGroup="CreateCase" Rows="8" Columns="40" RichText="true" RichTextMode="FullHtml" AllowHyperlink="true" TextMode="MultiLine" />

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.PrepareItemForUpdate + SPWorkflowTask.AlterTask + Task not updated

Hi Guys,

Today I have tried to updated task list item in workflow but everytime i was getting Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.PrepareItemForUpdate error when updated item.

I have used taskcontenttype for aspx task form in my workflow. I have updated task using SPWorkflowTask.AlterTask but not solved my problem.

Solution :

Put FieldRefs in contentType XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<ContentType ID="0x01080100DB4541EA29924902A6635A9D335C698B"
Name="SOP Issue WF Content Type1"
Group="SOP Issue"
Description="SOP Issue WF Content Type Task"
Version="0"
Hidden="FALSE">
<FieldRefs>

</FieldRefs>
<XmlDocuments>
<XmlDocument NamespaceURI="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms/url">
<FormUrls xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms/url">
<New>_layouts/SOPIssueWF/Task1EditForm.aspx</New>
<Display>_layouts/SOPIssueWF/Task1EditForm.aspx</Display>
<Edit>_layouts/SOPIssueWF/Task1EditForm.aspx</Edit>
</FormUrls>
</XmlDocument>
</XmlDocuments>
</ContentType>
</Elements>

How to get current logged in user in sharepoint object model

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url.ToString()))
{
using (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb web1 = site.OpenWeb())
{
using (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb web = SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context))

{

SPUser currentuser = web.CurrentUser;

}
}
}

MOSS 2007 Problem : Cannot connect to the configuration database.

Hi Guys,

During my work with MOSS 2007,i had some performance issues regarding the SQL Server instance services which is running the configuration and Data for MOSS sites.

I had closed this service bymistake and when i'm trying to open the central administration site or any site i got this message in the IR:

"Cannot connect to the configuration database."

To resolve this : go to your services and start this service:
"SQL Server (MSSQLSERVERS)"

This Tip is enough to continue your work with your MOSS sites.

Hope this helps

Error message when you try to upload a large file to a document library on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "Request timed out"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925083