Sunday, July 29, 2012

Corrections to 10232 Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications


In Lab7 Exercise 1, you need to change the SharePoint path in the solution to point to the correct site.
After completing Lab 9 exercise 1, the first web part still has an error message.Problem is a damaged GUID in the web.config BindingRedirect. Explantion is here:
Lab 11 gives an error importing the solution file.
Solution is to make sure the Visual Studio Solution has a short path name by bringing it closer to the root.
Lab 12 Exercise to is missing the OK step to create the web app and the site collection.
Module 12 Optional Exercise 3 needs to change the SharePoint site path in the properties of the solution.
Lab 14 Exercise 1, the error message at the end of step 4 can be ignored.
Step 5 is missing a step to add the Unit Test to List of Tests, this can be done with drag and drop.
Step 7 should be changed to find text “Libraries” rather than “Contoso Performance List Test”.



Saturday, June 30, 2012

Corrections to MOC 50469 SharePoint 2010 End User Level II


Page 8 Step 9 should be Intranet site not My Portal site
Page 108 Remove heading for Task 19, is duplicated
Page 108 Second Task 19, before step 2 need to save the workflow
Page 168 Task 2 wrong path for lab file should be 01_Lab01
Page 171 Step 7 don’t get error so can jump to step 10.
Page 172 Step 3, make sure correct user shown, caching can cause a problem here.
Page 199 Step 3, the site collection feature is called SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
Page 235 Step 11 Need to add a site column called classification to a content type called MyDocument based on Document. Need to add this content type to Shared Documents also.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Ascentium Branded Commerce Server 2009 R2

Just tested the latest version of Commerce Server 2009 R2 with Ascentium branding. Worked just like the previous Microsoft branded version. The only non branding difference I could spot, is that it did not check for the Cross Scripting Engine before installing. Although there are other minor changes listed in the documents here. We hope to use this version in the classroom in parallel in our next class and then switch over to this version for future classes.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Commerce Server Inventory System Part 6


Creating an Inventory Catalog

The process of creating an inventory catalog is straightforward and relatively simple. Inventory catalogs are created through the Catalog Manager, and then product catalogs are mapped to them.  A product catalog can only be mapped to one inventory catalog, but an inventory catalog can have many product catalogs.
The pro golf shop requires only one inventory catalog, but both the base and virtual product catalogs must be mapped to the inventory catalog.  The reason both catalogs are mapped is that inventory quantity must be allocated for both the online retail customers and the trading partners.
A default inventory catalog already exists, called Default.  This catalog cannot be deleted, and will be used for the golf pro shop inventory catalog.
To create the inventory catalog, you can use the Catalog Manager.
           1.       Click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Commerce Server > Catalog Manager.
           2.       Under the View pane, click Inventory Catalogs.  After you have selected the inventory catalogs view, the Task pane will update to show tasks specific to inventory catalogs.
           3.       Double-click the Default inventory catalog.  This will open the inventory catalog properties window.
           4.       The Base Properties tab is selected by default (Figure 4-7).  Since we added the Inventory Catalog Id property definition to the Inventory Catalog Metadata, and it is a required property, you must specify a value.  Note that this property is on the base properties tab, rather than the custom properties tab.  This is because the Display as Base Property value was set to True on the property definition.  If it had been set to False, this property would be on the custom properties tab.


Figure 4-7

           5.       Click the Product Catalogs tab (Figure 4-8).  By default, no product catalogs have been added to the default inventory catalog.  To add our catalogs, click the Add Catalog button.

Figure 4-8

           6.       The Product Catalogs screen will list all the available product catalogs that can be added to this inventory catalog (Figure 4-9).  Since a product catalog can only be mapped to one inventory catalog only unmapped product catalogs are displayed.  Either select both the ProShopCatalog and TradingPartnerCatalog, or click the Select All button.  Click the OK button to continue.

Figure 4-9

           7.       Click the Save And Close button to finish.
Once a product catalog has been mapped to an inventory catalog, inventory data can now be associated to your products or product variants.

Adding Inventory to SKUs

Now that the product catalogs have been mapped to an inventory catalog, inventory data must be added to the SKUs.  The SKU can either be a product or product variant, depending on how the catalog was defined.  If a Variant Id was specified when the product catalog was created then inventory information resides at the product variant level.  If a Variant Id was not specified when the product catalog was created then the inventory information resides at the product level.
The golf pro shop has product variants, and consequently inventory information must be entered for each of the product variants.  To add inventory information to the pro shop product variants, you must use the Catalog Manager.
           1.       Click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Commerce Server > Catalog Manager.
           2.       Under the View pane, click Catalogs.  After you have selected the catalogs view, the Catalogs tree view pane will display all the product catalogs.
           3.       In the Catalogs tree view pane, expand the ProShopCatalog catalog, the Golf Clubs category, and select the Drivers category.
           4.       Double-click the “Calloway FT-5 Driver” from the Category and Product Details list.  This will open the product properties screen.
           5.       Now that the product catalog has been mapped to an inventory catalog, a new tab called Variant Inventory Properties is.  Select the Variant Inventory Properties tab.
           6.       On the Variant Inventory Property tab (Figure 4-10) you will see a grid that contains all the variants in rows and all the inventory SKU metadata as columns (Figure 4-10).  For a non-product variant catalog this tab is called Inventory Properties (Figure 4-11).  By default four inventory SKU properties are required: Status, Onhand Quanitity, Stockout Threshold, and Warehouse Location (the property definition you added to the inventory SKU metadata).  Enter values for each of the variants.  Make sure to set the status to Enabled, the onhand quantity greater than 0, and the stockout threshold to 1 (indicating that there must be at least one SKU available to be considered in stock).


Figure 4-10


Figure 4-11

           7.       Once all the inventory information has been added to the product variants, click Save And Close to finish.
Now that inventory exists for the product variants on the golf pro shop, you could actually begin to sell your products online (assuming you have already developed the Web site).  Since inventory exists for products, such as golf club drivers, they are considered in stock and can be purchased.  For most online Web sites, however, you will probably want to turn on some special inventory handling, such as inventory back-ordering and pre-ordering.

Based on my book on Commerce Server. Part 7 is herePart 1.