Can someone confirm if I am reading this wrong or are these more mistakes on the book.

Page 74, Fig 4-19
"Variable: wfv DeletedUser" should be DelegatedUser?

Page 75, Fig 4-21
The workflow instruction say to use Set Current Field, so we know the WF is running the Help Desk Categories list. We use the string builder to get the Current:ID, then add ";#", then get Current:HD_Category. Problem is this column is a Lookup column in the the Helpdesk Ticket content type (Pg 66, Fig 4-3). So I am guessing (again) that the fig is wrong and should be Current:HD_Category Description?

Page 77, Fig 4-24
The HD_Category column is listed but again, if I am reading the instructions right, page 66, Fig 4-3 show this Site Column to be a lookup to the "Categories custom list"?

Am I missing something and just not understanding the author or are these mistakes in the book?

I'm just acknowedging your questions here and will respond in detail later today or in the next 24 hours.

Regards,

--Paul Galvin

PaulG: You're correct, it should be wfv_DelegatedUser, not wfv_DeletedUser. The only thing I can think of is that this may be one of the screen shots I had to re-create during the editing process. There were a batch that had to be made pretty long after they were fully edited/accepted and this is probably one of them.

PaulG: I don't have a SP 2010 environment quickly accessible to me at the moment, so I can't check it, but I want to respond to this. This section that starts on page 75 ("Update Category Unique Key") is running against the HD_Categories list. I can see that the section never mentions that and that's obviously unclear. Figure 4-24 shows what the result of the workflow will be when it runs against the list. Does this clear things up? If not, I will re-create these steps in a fresh 2010 environment and respond in detail again.


PaulG: See my previous comment.

I may come back to this book after the Christmas break. I'll have to start the chapter over as I have already forgotten the details of the proposed solution.

I finally got too frustrated with the errors, missing instructions, etc I put the book down and went back to my own project.

This book offers many chalange. Isn't it? Put everything in the right place ...

Hi, please read here for my plan to address issues and questions in this thread: Author's response to various comments and plans for downloadable content

Regards,

--Paul Galvin