By default, workflow history will "disappear" after 60 days. Microsoft has built this into MOSS intentionally to ensure good performance. By deleting old workflow history, it’s more likely (but hardly guaranteed) that the Workflow History list (/Lists/Workflow History by default) will stay below the magic 2000 items per list limit. (See the "Working with Large…
At one of my clients, I’m using a pretty simple SharePoint Designer workflow to manage their Purchase Order approval process. About half the time, the workflow runs fine. The other half, the workflow instance gets stuck with the status ‘Failed on Start (retrying)’. If I terminate the “stuck” instance and fire it off again manually,…
I’ve had several clients ask about this, and my answer to date has been “It’s a known ‘feature’ or bug.” I just ran across this Microsoft KB article that shows you how to fix this issue by loading the 953749 hotfix: SYMPTOMS You use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to add a Custom List Form…
Andy Lewis over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog has a nice post about how to do Filtering and Formatting with Date Values. The best part of the post (it is FULL of useful information) is a set of utility templates that do some useful calculations on dates: getDateFromDays Outputs the date that is…
I posted back in February about using the Data View Web Part to do cross list rollups (See Rolling Up Content in SharePoint Using the Data View Web Part (DVWP)). Since then, I’ve done quite a few of these, and I’ve been meaning for some time to post this update. Not everything that I believed…