Veit Sanner's Blog

At the end of a year I have the tendency to look back at the past year and set a vision of what lies in the twelve months to come. When I look at the post history from this year I must admit that this blog was pretty silent in 2013. I published only three posts in January - which is eleven months ago. Then nothing has happened until this post. Wow, time flew by . What has kept me from publishing new posts in this time? Frankly, I cannot attribute to a single cause. There were multiple reasons for this: I have started a new job in February which provided new challenges. In my prior job I was regularly involved in Nintex projects. In my new job my projects are most of the time around software architecture and quality assurance in SharePoint development projects . (SharePoint will never let you go ;-)) and many other reasons. So with the new tasks in my daily job, I am going to shift the core topics of this blog more in the direction of software architecture and quality ...

With this month I start a post series with Readlists . Each posts contains some links to articles devoted to one topic. besides introducing a new tag "Readlist" there is also a page where all reading lists can be accessed. February 2013 is all about Search in SharePoint 2013 .

This is the second part in the series Integrating Nintex Workflow with Twitter . Please go to part 1 to see the full story. In the first part of this series we have created a content News Page,  a page layout and deployed the feature to a SharePoint Publishing site . The page has an extra field which is used to enter the message sent to Twitter. This part covers the workflow which is used to tweet the availability of a new News Page . In order to get the following to work you need Nintex Workflow 2010 with Nintex Live enabled. (If you want to know how enable Nintex Live take a look at the Installation Manual which can be found on Nintex's Support Pages .) Step 1: Creating the Workflow The workflow for this scenario should be executed everytime a new page with version 1.0 of our content type is approved. Consequently, for updates to the content no tweet is sent. Nintex offers the possibility to hook into the item changed event for list workflows . Therefore g...

Overview One common scenario for corporate Internet sites is to sent notifications when a new article is published via social networks to their followers. With the availability of Nintex Live it became possible to twitter a tweet. In one of the later versions a similar activity for Yammer  became available. In this post I will show how you can use the "Twitter a Tweet" activity to notify your Twitter followers about new articles. This is going to be a two part series. In the first part I will create a News Page content type and page layout. In the second part I will show you the workflow which ensures that every time a News Page was approved the notification is sent to Twitter. Step 1: Content Type News Page In order to get started open Visual Studio 2010 and create an empty SharePoint project. Then add a new content type to this project based on Page . Modify the added content type to look like the this: 1: <!-- Parent ContentType: Page (0x010...