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Hello Team, We as team working in isolated development environments, each developer have their own development server which contains a K2 development environment; K2, SQL Server, Visual Studio and so on. Visual Studio is where our expertise area and TFS we are using for version control/source control. We have requirement to use TFS for Application Lifecycle Management for K2 SmartForms, which allows us to track requirements, code, issues, fixes, history, WorkItems and so on. Follwoign are our requirements: (1)    Include SmartForms in TFS(2)    Share SmartForms definitions for use in other environments(3)    Track requirements/changes(4)    Maintain history of changes, WorkItems(5)    Build Automation that next stet leads to Test Automation Please advice on above mentioned requiremnts and in summary a way to use SmartForms with TFS(2013).

Server 2012 R2Development ServerFirst Time Install After install when trying to access the Workspace site we receive an error 401.2 - Unauthorized. We are using NTLM Windows authentication. For the K2 Workspace site in IIS authentication is set to ASP.NET Impersonation. Anonymous is disabled as well as Form Authentication. In the event logs for K2 we do not see anything. Does anyone have any ideas what may be causing this or how to resolve it? Can provide additional information.

We are using K2 for SharePoint.  I have created smartobjects, views, forms, and workflowThe first step of my workflow assigns a task to the user.The outcomes are approve, reject, reassign. 1.  I want each of the outcomes to be a button.2.  I want to add a comment field to the task - that is required when they click the Reject button. And while I'm on the subject of tasks.  How can I make it so that if the user decides to click the link to his task (in the email) after he completes the task, it doesn't pop up an ugly message about access to the task. Is there some documentation that dives deeper into tasks somewhere that I haven't found? Thanks! 

Hello, i'm trying to execute the following line of code on a k2 blackbearl 4.6.11. SourceCode.SmartObjects.Client.SmartObjectList oSmOList = serverName.ExecuteList(smartObject)This is executing proberly on the Development machine. But, when attempting to execute the same function on production (which is running k2 blackbearl 4.6.11 as well) it returns System.Exception: Invalid archive type. Any suggestions on why this is happening? Thanks you.

the K2 Designer now errors with:Could not load file or assembly 'K2Field.K2Forms.Controls.Literal' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Hi All, I currently have a workflow that has an activity that starts on a dynamic datetime field. The activity starts at the correct time, however the Event Code within the activity isn't being executed. I'm not too sure why it isn't being executed, there is an if statement within the code to check if field A == 'Y' then K2.ExpireActivity("Activity Name"); The activity name does exist within the workflow Suggestions would be most appreciated Thanks.

Hello Everyone. I have been pulling my hair out on this one trying to figure out why its behaving this way. The following workflow uses a for each to pull all the records from a table. I also have my Reference set up to link to it when obtaining all the values I need for when using the out of the box AD Create service type. It first checks to see if the AD record already exists, if it does it updates the status to COMPLETED in the main table and removes the record in the processing table (the one the For Each and Reference are looking at). If no AD record exists, it creates the AD record and does the same thing, marking the main table to COMPLETED and removing the processing record. If, however, I have a record that when creating the AD record has an error, I capture it (length(DistinguishedName) <= 0), and I mark the the main table record as ERROR and still remove the record from the process table. If I only have the UpdateMainTableSmartObject and take out the RemoveProcessRecordSm

Hi,I have an issue with date controls in my forms, they are saving as *personal details removed* every time no matter what date it is. If I do a create in the smartobject tester the date creates correctly, however when I do this within my form it saves as *personal details removed*. Even if I leave the date field empty it still saves as this value. I have tried deleting and re-adding the field, changing the format, hard-coding the date, using the current system date and am still getting the same issue. Can anyone advise?Thanks.  

I have a requirement for a begin date to be the next days date. I entered an expression on the field to set it to tomorrow.  It does display, and allow someone to change the date. Here is my problem, when I reuse that view with the date field, it displays tomorrows date; not what was entered in the smartbox object. Is there a setting or work around to display this smartbox object correctly?

Hi, is it possible wo write in the K2 Logs from custom code like a custom service broker or a assembly used in custom code event?Does anyone know best practices or any tips for logging in such custom K2 solutions?  Thanks in advance, Andreas

I have specified a font size for a list view column header and it renders correctly in the list view designer but it does not render correclty in the smartform that it has been added to. I tried changing the color of the columun header too but not success with that either. I am looking for a solution.  Any ideas? Thanks,alv4

A smartform is used to capture multiple approvers in a SP list column let's call it "Approvers". When workflow is  kicked off, destination users in a client activity should be set to users in Approvers column. This worked fine in SharePoint designer but not working in K2 Studio.... So I tried to create a data field in workflow in format domain-nameuserID1; domain-nameuserID2; domain-nameuserID3. I was able to create this variable but when I assigned this variable to destination user, worklist didn't get assigned. It looks like K2 studio doesn't like multiple users in one single line. I even hardcoded above strings in designer, it didn't work either. If I specify then in different lines, worklists get assigned. Since number of approvers are not fixed, assigning on separate lines is not an option. Please see attached.Any ideas how I can set multiple destination users in K2 studio?Thanks

I am building small application to keep track on contractors hours. I have already built Entry form  ( Item Form) and Display Form( View Form).View Item Form is only set up for Weekly view. You can only add hours for this week. Now i want to add funcationality to allow users to go back a week and edit the entries they made.For that i have added Previous Week Button :Can can i add Calendar control to allow them to filter item for previous week. What would be a right approach to do this? Thank you 

Hi, I got multiple file attachments working with a form and can see them in a list. Is there a way of getting the File size off all the File attachments and checking if they they do no total more than 20 MB? The attachments are all added to an email and sent to an Email address, however there is a limit of total email size of 20 MB, so the message will not get sent. The only way i can think off is somehow totalling the size of the all files in the List View and then if > 20MB, pop up a message and do not send the email. Is there a way to total the file size of the file attachments in the list view? Thanks.

Can someone point me to the documentation on how to restrict permissions to an Editable list view for a SmartObject? I've tried restricting permissions via Management, but the user that is testing can us the editable list URL to edit.  Any advice on what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Hi, Got a Toolbar button on a list. The button background is the same as the list, i want it to standout. So i changed the background of the button, but then it's completely flat and when the user hovers over it, nothing moves. Is there a way to make the Tollbar Button Background/Font colour change as the mouse hovers over it? I like my stuff to be user friendly :-)

Hi Team,  When i submit the request i am unable to recieve the pdf file attachment if more than 4 mb as attachment

Hi, Is it possible to have a seperate AD Service for Nested AD Groups? I have an AD Group which i use for most forms, however i also have a Nested AD group within there which i want to use for a specific form only Is it possible to create a seperate AD Service instance and then click the NestGroups flag to true, and then use that Smartobject within this new form to use for when i need to specifically use nested groups? Thanks P.S. Even when testing on the current AD User Service and setting ResolveNestedGroups to True, the tester tool only brings back the AD Groups direct users, not the nested group.... Why?

I'm getting a bit desperated.Recently, there has been an issue with Smart Object List methods over and over again. Affected are only smart objects that have a decimal field and only the list methods. After restarting the K2 service, the error is gone. After some time, however, the error occurs again. I can not detect any errors in the logs and can not recognize the cause. Has this error ever occurred to someone?We are using version 4.7 with the latest fix pack. The attached hardcopy shows the error message when trying to execute the list method by smart object tester.The error message below occurs by the smartforms: Type: System.FormatException Source: mscorlib Method Base Member Type: Method Name: StringToNumber Module Scope Name: CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary Declaring Type Full Name: System.Number Stack Trace: at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)at System.Nu

Hi, I have 2 workflows on a SharePoint list. 1 workflow is set to fire when an item is created and 1 workflow is set to fire when a list item is updated. However, the 'updated' workflow is also firing when an item is first created.  Is this expected behavoir or should it only fire when an actual update has been made to the original item? I have checked the rules on the form to ensure that when it is creating the original item it isn;t doing it in staggered steps that could be construed as an 'add' and simultaneous edit' I am using K2 5, any ideas?  Thanks.

How can a developer change the deployment location for the workflow being deployed?? 

Hi all, Anyone else have any problems installing the May update? When trying to update, it fails on this error: 1:0: ExecuteSqlScript.Execute: >> Logged Error: Script execute failed: System.Exception: Script execution exception: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ExecutionFailureException: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: 'TRY_CONVERT' is not a recognized built-in function name. 1:0: Component.ExecuteTarget: >> Logged Error: Target did not complete successfully: DataPatches693317 + 693502.sql Any ideas?

We currently support several existing K2 Blackpearl/Smarforms environments.  Each environment has its own set of service accounts that are used to run Windows Services and IIS application pools.  Our security engineering department has asked us if any of these service accounts can be converted to Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs).  Does K2 support using these service accounts to run services in K2 Blackpearl 4.7?

Hello K2 Community - We will be implementing K2 4.7 soon and I am working on pulling together our internal K2 governance. I would greatly appreciate any guidance you would be willing to provide. Maybe I am approaching this wrong but I cannot seem to find anything related to this topic online. Can we change the 8-hour period and what is the impact of doing so? I have in my notes we might be able to change to 4 or even less? Per our initial internal testing, it didn’t require anytime at all for access. After a person was newly added to a group and they could interface with a K2 workflow immediately? What are your thoughts? How would you define these? Thank you in advance for your time. Brian

Me, again. Looking around, I see plenty of references to doing this in Sharepoint, but we don't have K2 integrated with Sharepoint. I'd love to be able to use workflow to move a file from one network location folder to another. So, for example, if a file gets dropped into Folder A, as part of the workflow I'd like it to be moved to Folder B.   It seems as though this should be possible ... but I'm not imagining how to do it. Thoughts on the hypothetical? Rob