How to dynamically add images in a List view

This article will be dedicated to the dynamic addition of images in a List view on K2 Blackpearl.

First of all, what are dynamic images? 🙂

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Exporting view lists to Excel

The Export to Excel feature allows you to upload your List view as a Microsoft Excel file (.xlsx). Use this option if you want to analyze the display data in Excel. You must configure the functionality using a control that exists when the view is designed, and then configure a rule Execute a method on the view. Read more

Turn the tabs into a pretty menu

In this article I will show you how to turn your tabs into some pretty tabs. We are going to change the style of your forms based on K2 SmartForms in order to get the following result.

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Download and Install a Service Broker that Uploads a File to SharePoint

Want to add the feature that allows you to send files to SharePoint from your K2 App? If YES you are in the right place !!! 😉

To carry out this task, we will install a new Broker. This Broker will allow us to send a file on SharePoint by specifying: The URL of the site, The library, The path (or directly uploder the file from our PC). In the following of this tutorial, we will summarize the different steps to install and use this broker. Read more

Monitor your server K2 – part 1

A topic that comes up frequently when our K2 platform gets bigger, it’s a simple way to monitor its environment without having to connect to the workspace and check if instances are in error or if everything is fine (yes yes, it happens!)

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Manage files in an SQL database

The need to store files is present a large part of the applications we develop. But now, when you have a fully integrated SQL application, is it necessary to provision a SharePoint site collection to manage its documents? By inevitably (and luckily 😛 ) Read more

Trigger a rule in a content control

Who has never been tempted to use

content control

in their application? Control which allows to add an iframe in a form, allowing to insert a 2nd form inside the first one.

Several advantages:

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Hello World!

Welcome to the Flow Factory blog!

This blog aims to communicate tips, best practices and other tips on K2 technologies, to start and why not on other topics in a while. We are not magicians, but we may have things to teach you 😎

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How to have self expanding textaera in our K2 forms

Textarea in our forms? Who has never used it? No one !

And the famous question that arrives thereafter “Yes, but when you enter a very long text, we would like the area to expand … it would be much more beautiful!”

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Manage your mails in a SQL database

An application without mail, it exists? Never seen !  😆

Several solutions to manage the mails are available:

  • Directly in the configuration of the mail event?
    It’s possible, it works, but maintenance level is complex and not flexible at all, we forget!

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