More power to you, I avoid SharePoint like it is the plague, I think I'd enjoy Chinese water torture over dealing with that product ever again.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Kier Simmons <[email protected]>wrote: > Heh, we are using it here, and I've had enough time to beat it into > submission. Granted I am using a 3rd party workflow dev tool called > Nintex Workflow, but at least I can get ColdFusion to interact with it. > Getting the SP web services to work was a bust despite the people that have > figured it out some how, but I did manage to get Nintex to communicate with > CF second had via XML and the web client file structure. CF is so versatile > that you can always find a way around road blocks to get it to integrate > with anything. I was also able to get scheduled jobs performed by our UNIX > servers, Business Objects XI servers, SQL 2000 servers, SQL 2005 servers, > Oracle Database, and ColdFusion servers to communicate with one ColdFusion > server in order to log the start, completion and failure of each job. Plus > I was able to do all the fun things that good old CF programming can > provided such as warning the person that developed the job that it has > failed to begin, end or just issued a failure in general. Plus escalation > to the whole development group if the message is not acknowledged was easy > enough. Try getting that to work in SP without losing your mind. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Aaron Rouse > *Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2008 9:12 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [houcfug] Re: SSIS > > > > Getting SharePoint to play nice without involving ColdFusion can often > times be a challenge in itself, but guess it depends on what you are doing > since SharePoint seems to work "ok" if strictly using out of the box > functionality. The WFF(?) that SharePoint uses for workflows is not the > best thing since sliced bread though. Every SharePoint project I know of > here is using third party workflow tools due to the one built in just not > being up to the job. > > > > Just remember that friends do not let friends use SharePoint. > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Kier Simmons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Of course if we are going to talk workflows the conversation will > inevitably turn to SharePoint and ways we've all tried to get ColdFusion to > play nice with it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Robert L. Stewart > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [houcfug] SSIS > > > Ken, > > A lot of what had to be done in VB can now be done natively in SSIS. > It is really designed as a tool for migrating data from a transactional > system to a data warehouse. There is also a really good work flow > capability which was very basic in DTS. > > Because of work flow, it is sometimes easier to do SPs than DTS. > > At 02:28 AM 12/19/2008, you wrote: > >Date: Thurs, Dec 18 2008 7:38 am > >From: "Ken Auenson, II" > > > > > >So, I have not yet been exposed to SISS in SQL Server 2005, but I am > >maintaining a few DBs that are SQL Server 2000 that had a lot of DTS > >packages. > >At one point, I re-wrote most of them to be straight stored procedures. > >I find this to be a lot easier to maintain and a lot easier to actual work > >with. > >What tasks and added power to DTS and/or SISS have that you cannot do in > >straight stored procedures? > >In other words, what features/benifits am I missing out on? > > > >Thanks, > >Ken > > Robert Stewart > ProjecTools.com > 713-371-9840 X1305 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Aaron Rouse > http://www.happyhacker.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > This e-mail message and any files transmitted with it are confidential > and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which > they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or an > authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified > that any review, dissemination, or copying of this message and its > attachments or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender by return > e-mail and delete this e-mail message from your computer. Thank you. > > > > -- Aaron Rouse http://www.happyhacker.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
