Yesterday someone asked me how to get the datepart (f.e. the year of a date) inside a SharePoint designer workflow. I thought it would be some default action in the "Utility Actions" group, but I thought wrong. There is no such pretty common action. This post however shows a simple technique to get datepart Year, Month and Day....
Today my colleague Gijs in ‘t Veld and I published our white paper on BizTalk Server and SharePoint integration, describing best practices for providing a “face” to BizTalk Server. We cover a lot of integration features of SharePoint so even if you are not interested in BizTalk at all, you might want to have a look at this whitepaper. It contains complete walkthroughs, tips and explanations, on:
Excel Services, Data Connection Libraries, integrating Excel and Analysis Services 2008, InfoPath Forms Services, integrating SharePoint task lists with Microsoft Outlook, workflow with SharePoint Designer, designing large lists, designing large SharePoint sites, designing SharePoint authorization, and more!...