I'm new to SharePoint but most of it seems pretty straight forward but I've hit a problem and haven't been able to find a way around it so far.
I'm trying to set/enforce Service Level Agreements (SLA's) for different departments based on the department the task is assigned to. I was going to do this based on the workflow status that generates the task but am open to any other suggestions.
My workflow for requesting funds for an approved project goes through several stages (Project management validation, Finance Admin validation; Finance manager validation, Fixed assets authorization) and each one has a slightly different SLA. For this reason, I cant just add an arbitrary value to the start date for the calculated column associated to the task.
Any suggestions?
The option I'd go with here is to use If/Then blocks in my workflow code based on the current stage. Something like this:
If Stage = Project Management Validation Then
Set DueDate to Today+5
Else If Stage = Finance Admin Validation Then
Set DueDate to Today+3
etc.
Hope this helps!
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I am building recommendation system for classified ads website , ads are added and deleted daily.
What I thought of is to use PutItems to add new ads and make field called status = 0 , if user deleted the ad , I will use the same PutItem API with the same ITEM_ID to update the stored Item, and use filter to select only ads with status = 0 when generation recommendation.
Is that correct ? will the PutItems API update the existing ad ? and is there anyway to delete the Item ?
Currently there is no way to remove items that were already added to Datasets.
Your workaround looks good, however from my experience with working with Personalize, the filter might decrease your recommendations quality.
To understand why, this is the more or less algorithm, that Personalize uses for filtering recommendations:
Get recommended items for user
Filter recommendations using filter expression
Return first N recommended items left after filtering
Because the filtering is done after getting recommendations, it means, that Personalize will simply fill recommendations list with items, that were somewhere down on the recommended list.
And there is a problem with that approach - items lower on the list, have lower "Score" value, which indicates accuracy of recommendations. That's why you will end up with in general worse recommendations, but it will depend how many ads that have status = 0 were recommended, before filtering out them.
To check your recommendations scores, simply get recommendations in Personalize web UI. It will return list of recs with scores.
Better approach
If your ads are updated daily, then you can definitely workaround it by following those steps:
Create a Lambda function, that is triggered every 24 hours
Lambda will fetch all of the ads and put them into S3 bucket as CSV file. It should exclude ads that are no longer available (status = 0)
Call CreateDatasetImportJob API using any AWS SDK of your choice and provide the data which is stored on S3 bucket
Personalize will start import job. When it finishes, all of the items are replaced with the newest dump
However it has some downsides.
If you are not using the User-Personalization (aws-user-personalization) Recipe, then after each import of Items, you need to update your Solution by creating new Solution Version. Otherwise it won't include changes made by items dataset import job.
Creating a new Solution Version is quite slow and expensive, that's why I would recommend to use User-Personalization Recipe, if you want to use this approach and since HRNN Recipes are marked as legacy, it's a good idea to migrate anyways.
If you are using User-Personalization Recipe, then according to AWS documentation:
Amazon Personalize automatically updates your latest solution version every two hours to include new data. Your campaign automatically uses the updated solution version. For more information see Automatic Updates.
So pretty much all of the work is done on Personalize side and you don't have to worry about Solution retraining after each Items import job.
And the last problem...
Since for User-Personalization Recipe documentation claims, that your solution will be updated within two hours, then you might end up with recommending items, that are not available, for some short period of time. If you are updating items daily, it might be a significant problem.
To fix that case, I would recommend simply using Filter approach, that you mentioned. Thanks to this, you have benefits of both approaches
and your recommendations are always valid.
Felipe Hoffa wrote this very helpful guide on how to turn on custom cost control for a project in BigQuery. However, according to the doc, it should be possible to configure custom cost control as user level as well. I really need to do this for my production data warehouse project because I can't let one person's mishap stop all the other users from using the data warehouse. Please help!
Go to console.cloud.google.com > I&AM > Quotas. Then filter by bigquery in the services dropdown. You will find a row like the one bellow:
You are looking to edit the Query usage per day per user. To calculate the number of Bytes you can use a service like: https://convertlive.com/u/convert/terabytes/to/bytes#1
I'm building a workflow process in Dynamics 365 triggered by changes to a date/time field in the Opportunity entity - this should create (or update) a [Dynamics] Calendar entry for the user to whom this Opportunity is assigned on the date/time in question, which should then automatically synchronise with the user's Exchange calendar because server side Exchange synchronisation is enabled.
I've hit a brick wall with this having tried every option I can think of - the following aspects work but not the end to end solution:
1) The workflow is triggered as expected, and correctly creates the calendar entry in the Dynamics Calendar;
2) If I manually create an entry in the Dynamics Calendar it appears in the user's Exchange calendar, so I know the server side synchronisation is working correctly.
However ... calendar entries created by my workflow are not synching to the Exchange calendar.
I'm convinced I must be missing something extremely obvious but can't fathom it!
Resolved this now ... Appointments that are created by a workflow process exist in an "open" state (on our Dynamics instances - not sure if this has anything to do with instance settings) whereas manually created Appointments get a status of "scheduled" - it seems the "open" ones don't get synchronised with Exchange.
I couldn't find any settings / filters to specifically include open Appointments in the synchronisation, so instead I added a step in my workflow to set the Appointment status to "scheduled", which did the trick.
I'm currently running into the problem that I am using a webservice system to load products into magento.
I'm using the REST api in conjunction with Oauth to create products and assign a category. It works and when I go to the admin I can see the products as well as see they are properly assigned to the correct category. When I open the category management in the management console i can see i have (example: 106) items assigned in the category.
However, the problem is: It does not show in the site.. even with refreshing anything that is cache or index.
When I open up the management console and open 1 article and save it without changing any other property and then Save it. I can suddenly see the item in the front end webshop...
I'm lost to why this occurs.. also for 19k product updates it is becoming a bit of an annoying bit of work to update this amount of products since any bulk update method does not do the same as editing just 1 product at a time.
Any help is much appreciated.
In the end I have discovered the answer myself. Thought it might be nice to list it here as well.
In the 'rights' tab i added all the accessrights for the user using the api. This allowed me to read products etc. Very stupid mistake but somehow I overlooked this at first.
IF you'd expect security errors.. you wont get any. just empty lists and null responses.
I am looking for a generic method of filtering a series of sitecore items based on the users current profile, I found one promising example:
How do I trigger a profile in Sitecore DMS?
However a few critical references are missing which is a shame as it looks to be a suitably generic function
Resources.Settings.AnalyticsUserProfileEnableSwitch I assume to simply be a boolean switch
The killer is ApplyUserProfile(filter)
Please keep in mind that user profiles are NOT the same thing as profiles in DMS. In DMS this is in reference to Analytics profiles related not to the specific user, but in visiting profiles... i.e. Marketing personas.
If you want to filter items based on user profiles, you simply get the Sitecore.Context.User.Profile and get whatever the property is and implement your logic to how you want to filter.
If you want to filter items based on DMS profiles, then that's something that's going to be difficult to do due to the fact that personas are not entered into the Analytics database real time. Those really aren't something you'll even be aware of at run time and therefore it's going to be difficult to categorize the persona at run time. You could, however, use the rules system to do some filtering based on other criteria (such as using the Engagement plans or something else)... but without more information, that's about as much as can be said.