Adobe LiveCycle disturbance and opportunities to step in with SharePoint and PDF forms solution
Adobe made some historic announcements last year stating they are shifting resources out of Adobe LiveCycle and putting it into their Create Suite and Web Experience Management offerings. This caused some clients to worry about their business investments, but also revealing opportunities for great alternatives. LiveCycle integrates PDF Forms and Flex/Flash Forms into an environment that includes workflow, content management, rights management, and other capabilities which are required for building forms-based solutions. But despite being successful, Adobe has decided to divest in LiveCycle...
read moreIntermediate: How to add SharePoint Document ID and Version to PDF form
Recently one of our customers wanted to display SharePoint document version and document ID in his PDF form. There is a simple way how you can do it with PDF SharePoint. First of all, we prepare a simple template for this case; it contains two read only text fields where we will put SharePoint document id and document version value. Next, we need to add custom server script, for this I will use Server On Load rules. Here is script itself. if(!form.IsNew()){ //first we need to check if form instance is new, because unsaved form does not have version and ID...
read moreError: “The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request”
This week we were helping one of our customers to resolve issue with sandbox deployment. The customer uses PDF SharePoint “WSP deployment” feature and was unable to activate sandbox solution. For those, who do not know what “WSP deployment” feature is, I recommend to check the following blog article: http://www.pdfsharepoint.com/deployment-of-pdf-template-as-sandboxed-wsp-solution/ During the activation of WSP package in Solution Gallery (right now we are talking about Sandbox solutions), the following error consistently presented itself. “The sandboxed code execution...
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