I've used the 'Compact and Repair' function a number of times to 'clean up' a client application before deployment to my users, and it appears that this action only affects the client app itself. There are no 'locally stored' tables in this file, only forms, queries and VB... but I wasn't sure if it would have some sort of knock-on reaction to the linked Sharepoint Lists.
The compact and repair function will only operate on the local database file, even if you had linked access tables, those databases would not be impacted; hence there will be no changes to your linked sharepoint lists.
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we use Asana as our internal project management platform. We would like to use it to interact with our clients so they can see the progress of their projects - which is the same per year. We created the Kanaban view and move the cards through each process. We would like to show this to our clients, but have them only see their card.
Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks
There isn't a way that I'm aware of to have only certain tasks show up to certain people within a project - our access control is limited to the project level, so everyone who can see a project can see all tasks in a project.
One thing you might consider as a workaround is to multi-home the tasks into multiple projects (that is, add them into multiple projects). In this way you can limit membership to the second project to only the people in that set of clients, and have your original project as a master board with just your team in it.
You will have to keep these projects in sync, but this is possible in our API. Our tasks/addProject endpoint accepts both a project and a section (which is admittedly a bit unintuitive). If you maintain a mapping of each section, that is, "ID of Column A in the master board view maps to ID of Column B in the client board view", you can periodically iterate over all your tasks and re-insert each task in the client board view in the correct column based on where the task is in the master board view. (addProject is idempotent across requests, so re-insertions into a project are OK).
This is an interesting use case, thanks for sharing it! Hopefully this workaround will prove to be usable.
This issue may have a bearing on whether we use Umbraco for a given company or use something else.
The company has both an intranet and web site(s) running on an old bespoke system which is scheduled to be replaced.
Having tested Umbraco extensively and built mock-up sites, I am very impressed with its flexibility, and I strongly suspect it would work for the web estate.
However,the intranet is first to be replaced and, as per an earlier post, the issue is here that that are a number of document types that comprise the intranet, and any one of the employees (and there are thousands) can create, publish and edit their own documents, but can't edit documents created by other users.
Also, they will have logged in to Windows and don't wan't to log in to again to edit documents in the intanet CMS.
The questions are
Can users be automatically logged into Umbraco back-office by intergrating with Active Directory?
If so, can this handle thousands of such users?
Is there any way of preventing users from editing each others' documents (as far as I can see, if we allow users to create, update and publish, they can edit documents created by other users as long as the documents are under their starting node). I suppose we could make a staring node for each user and all their documents go under that - but then this would make the node structure massive, unmanageable, and, I suspect, slow.
Admins should be able to edit anything.
Reading the above back it looks very much to me that Umbraco just isn't suitable for an intranet (and to be fair, it's not promoted as such), but its user access system is it's big failing. and I think it might make it a non-starter....
about Active Directory I answered your question in your 2nd thread here: Umbraco - members creating back-end content.
Regarding your concerns about Tree structure and blocking content, you can restrict permissions for each user to allow or dissalow specific actions for specific node (with / without children nodes).
Of course, it depends from requirements and desired solution. If you want to have shared three, but block some actions for specific users - this is the way. If you don't want to allow other users to even see structure of trees managed by other users - it will be better to create different parent nodes for them and restrict access only to those one.
The same options are visible when you right click on node and choose "Permissions".
so I developed a small Neo4j database with the aim of providing users with path-related information (shortest path from A to B and properties of individual sections of the path). My programming skills are very basic, but I want to make the database very user-friendly.
Basically, I would like to have a screen where users can choose start location and end location from dropdown lists, click a button, and the results (shortest path, distance of the path, properties of the path segments) will appear. For example, if this database had been made in MS Access, I would have made a form, where users could choose the locations, then click a control button which would have executed a query and produced results on a nice report.
Please note that all the nodes, relationships and queries are already in place. All I am looking for are some tips regarding the most user-friendly way of making the information accessible to the users.
Currently, all I can do is make the users install neo4j, run neo4j every time they need it, open the browser, run the cypher script and then edit the cypher script (write down strings as locations) and then execute the query. This makes it rather impractical for users and also I am worried that some user might corrupt the data,
I'd suggest making a web application using a web framework like Rails, especially if you're new to programming. You can use the neo4j gem for that to connect to your database and create models to access the data in a friendly way:
https://github.com/neo4jrb/neo4j
I'm one of the maintainers of that gem, so feel free to contact us if you have any questions:
neo4jrb#googlegroups.com
http://twitter.com/neo4jrb
Also, you might be interested in look at my newest project called meta model:
https://github.com/neo4jrb/meta_model
It's a Rails app that lets you define via the web app UI your database model (or at least part of it) and then browse/edit the objects via the web app. It's still very much preliminary, but I'd like to be able to things like what you're talking about (letting users examing data and the relationships between them in a user friendly way)
I general you would write an tiny (web/desktop/forms-)application that contains the form, takes the form values and issues the cypher requests with the form values as parameters.
The results can then be rendered as a table or chart or whatever.
You could even run this from Excel or Access with a Macro (using the Neo4j http endpoint).
Depending on your programming skills (which programming language can you write in) it can be anything. There is also a Neo4j .Net client (see http://neo4j.com/developer/dotnet).
And it's author Tatham Oddie showed a while ago how to do that with Excel
What is the best way to store a task for multiple users in TFS 2010 ? I can only assign one for one task.
(for example: when I plan a demo to all developers)
(this is a scrum Msf Agile project, where the task is part of a user story)
I'm sorry to tell you that you can't assign multiple users to a single work item out of the box; At the same time, I do not recommended trying as this, as it does not fit the model in TFS. The conventional / recommended way to handle this type of scenario is to create multiple tasks; one for each developer in this case. You can easily accomplish this by copying a set of tasks using MS Excel. Another option (given the example you used) is to create a "Meeting" work item that has multiple drop-downs - one for each person that would attend meetings like for a demo or a technical review.
Yet another option is to create a custom control to format and store a list of users. This would likely be relatively complex to maintain, as you have to distribute it to each user's machine (it will need to be installed locally), and last I checked you would need 2 versions; one for the Team Explorer user interface and another for the Web Access tool that most people use to create work items from a web page on their TFS server. Future updates to TFS could possibly break your custom control. It is rarely worth the effort. Another downside is the you would likely be limited by how you can use MS Excel to work with the data you store in the field that the custom control works with. If you want to look into this further you can find some examples in the following CodePlex project: http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com/
You might consider your true goals in tracking such things as meetings and other items you want to assign multiple people to. Tasks are the heart of tracking progress of user stories in the MSF Agile Template. Tracking meeting attendance does not typically relate directly to a User Story, for example; so it won't typically assist you to determine how much close you are to being "done" with a User Story. If you want to take advantage of the existing reports, then you should organize your tasks so that they roll up as child work items to User Story (or Bug) work items.
Short story: you can't. Work items in the Process Template of Microsoft are designed to target nobody or only one User.
Now you can customize the Process Template to change this.
Take this post for instance, the customization works for group. But I don't recommend you to do so because TFS is basically not designed for that and you may end up disappointed.
I am trying to display a sql query result on a page in my Sharepoint site. After looking around I found instructions on how to do that using the Content Query Web part. The instructions to enable that feature instructions here include activating the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. I currently don't have that option. Is there something I can install to my sharepoint site to get that option? Is there a better/easier way to display the results of a sql query in sharepoint?
Make sure to look in your "site collection features" instead of your site feature. This feature needs to be activated at the root level of the site collection.
FYI the Content Query WebPart only retrieve content from your site collection (by crafting a relevant CAML query, which is finally transformed to SQL query). You don't have the possibility to create a direct sql query and receive the result.
If you need to query another database than the one SharePoint is using (avoid accessing it from SQL at all cost !), you'll need to rely on the Business Connectivity Service, a data view webpart (using SharePoint designer), or create a simple webpart that will be responsible for everything (connecting to the db, doing the query and rendering the result in any way).
Hope it helped.