I am fairly new to NS but learning more as the 'beast' grows! I have a simple notification class that includes an integer field that, when added at the end of an hyper-link, yields a valid link the user can click right from within his/her e-mail to get more details. In my xslt format file...more >>

Hi All, I am very much new to Notification Services. I have to perform a task like when ever there is some updations in one of my DB tables i have to get some Alerts like an email. Then i came accross this Notification services. But i dont know to acheive this functionality. Can any suggest...more >>

Hi, I have some subscription management code which is part of a larger update. I'd like the whole thing to run within a transaction. If I simply use the new TransactionScope and keep all my update logic + the API calls within the scope, will the ENTIRE set of updates occur within a transact...more >>

My requirement is to allow users to subscribe to notifications when a task has been created, and also to schedule reminders that the task is still pending. I have the notification at time the task is created by an event-triggered subscription, and that works fine. I then created a scheduled subs...more >>

Can one specify the order in which datasets are executed in the report? Thanks Sanjeev Order in which datasets executed ...more >>

Does anyone know if sharepoint 2.0 has a feature that prompts new users to change their password when they first access a portal? Thanks. -- Rafael...more >>

Hi, I have an event which may come into the Ns system. The event is a release of software. A new version can sometimes be released two or three times in a week. In that case, I only want to deliver the last event and discard the rest. Is there a way I can do this with the built in capabi...more >>

I am going through Shyam Pather's book to get myself up and running on NS. His source CD has a utility that loads scheduled subscriptions into the appropriate table. I use it and assign a time zone of "(GMT-05:00 Ineian (East)" for my subscription. Looking in the NSTimeZone table, I see ...more >>

Hi, I have some data in my database which stores when a contract expires. I'd like to send a notification 90, 60 and 30 days before the contract will expire. I'm having trouble coming up with a good event to trigger notifications. Do I setup the event class just to run once a month? A cus...more >>

I have NS installed on another machine seperate from a SQL 2000 server. I notice that when I start the NS service on the seperate machine, the processor on the SQL 2000 spikes to approx 50% and remains there contantly. When I run profiler I notice that the NS service is constantly performing que...more >>

Hello again, Here's our current hurdle. We have a certain event that translates into 6000 notifications. Our content formatter calls a web service. Afer about 1000 notifications, IIS reports "Faulting application w3wp.exe..." and presumably the web service fails and resets. I need to use ...more >>

Hello all, We have built a custom content formatter which creates a report via Reporting Services. Unfortunately, for some subscribers, the report can take a minute or more to generate. We have found that whenever the content formatter takes more than 15 seconds, the NS Distributor retur...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to debug my NS application. Is there anyway to log the actions which NS is taking? Such as running subscriptions, processing events, etc? ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the Sql 2005 NS book from Pather, and I got my notifications working fine when they are delivered as the events arrive in digest form. I then, closely following the book, tried to add scheduled delivery, so that notifications are built up and sent at a scheduled time. The p...more >>

Hi. i'm trying to set an Event Provider that will provide me with events when a specific data changes in a specific table in the DB. I've noticed that the built-in SQL Provider polls the DB using a schedule and that doesn't help me. I'm thinking of implementing a customed event provider ...more >>