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I know it's early, and this is not a "Steelers lock for the SB" thread by any stretch. I'm just wondering, at this point in the season, is there a team out there that makes you think "Man, I hope we don't run into those guys." For me, I don't see one right now.
Buffalo and Tennessee - good teams, but little to no recent playoff experience.
Indy - coming back into form, but we've handled them when they were better than they are now.
Jax - beat them on short week after brutal game. Never know, but certainly not scared.
Denver - way to inconsistent, turn the ball over too much.
San Diego - Two words - Norv. Turner.
Patsies - will end up with a decent record, but don't have it this year.
Jets/Miami - not scary.
Rest of AFC North is craptastic, not worried about any of them at this point.
KC, Oakland, Houston - please visit the draft discussion portion of the forum.
Steelers certainly aren't perfect. We have issues also. I just don't see any juggernaut teams out there yet.
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Honestly, the team that worries me the most:
The Steelers.
We do what we need to do, and we're as good as anyone on that list. We mess around, don't block, have stupid playcalling, and we struggle. I'm really hoping that we turned the corner last Sunday night; but in this league, this year, I'm not sure that anyone ever really turns the "corner."
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Really, I think the toughest team out there talent~wise in the AFC is the Chargers. Their defense isn't as tough without Merriman, but they're still a pretty solid group. Offensively, they're as stocked as anyone.
After them, it's kind of a hodge-podge (sp?). Lotta decent, but not great teams. Indy, Tennessee, Buffalo, Jets, etc. The Jets scare me a little because as the season progresses, I expect Faver to get better and become more comfortable in their system. By the time the playoffs roll around, I think they'll really be clicking. The next two are cupcake warmups for them leading up to the showdown @ Buffalo in Week 9. When it's all said and done, I still expect them to win the East.
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The Chargers. They have the ability to stretch the field; the achillies heel on D for this Steelers team. I think we'll have to play alot of cover 2 on them- possibly allowing Sproles to get to the outside.
Denver is another team that worries me.
Of course I would NOT like to get Jax again in the playoffs. They do very well on the road.
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Two criteria to consider regarding playoff teams, since I'm not going to "worry" about teams prior to that. (Although, agree with Preach that the Steelers are the team I worry about most -- I think we beat ourselves way too often.) First, which teams have the best defenses? Great offense and no defense is not a playoff recipe for success. Second, which teams have the best veteran presence (players and coaching staff)? Think of Ben's rookie season, or Tomlin's, as case in point. (I would say the Falcons are looking kind of heady right now, but they face a post-season wall.)
1. Steelers. Fair amount of injuries, OL is a concern, and the O needs to start clicking. Writing up something now that posits: it's easier to get your O in order (if the talent is there) than to suddenly get your D to be stout. Seems to me, consistent defenses are good right out of the gate, or have the talent to be good and maybe underperform (2007 Giants, early on). Only recent exception might be the middlin' Colts D that turned it on late. Rams of the GSOT era were actually decent, as were Pats D units that were statistically ranked in the middle of the pack if you go by yardage allowed only.
Anyway, Steelers D is IMO one of the three best in the NFL right now (Steelers, Ravens, Titans). DL depth a pleasant surprise (with Snacks and Diesel out, still stout). Secondary issues relate more to scheme than talent, again IMO.
Tomlin clearly needed a year, and Arians is still working out "finding his muse." But we saw this same thing with Whiz (criticized him hard until the late 2005 run), Mularkey, etc., and Arians' O has been very productive, albeit in spurts. With better playcalling from the OC, a game we lose 15-6 against a heavy blitzing Eagles squad is one we win outright, and go undefeated. I'm a little less concerned with early season miscues than late-season, and despite some hiccoughs, compare to issues with, say, teams like the Cowboys, or even the Chargers. Maddening, and for fans, of concern.
2. Ravens. I know, the suddenly animated Colts just walloped them, but they still have a top D, despite my hopes to the contrary. And consider that if they pull a WC spot, we always find ourselves in a slobberknocker divisional fight regardless of apparent talent mismatches. Ceiling: rookie QB and HC don't bode well for a deep playoff run, but could they draw the Steelers and upset us in a WC matchup?
3. Titans. A real surprise team, they're allowing fewer points than us or the Ravens per matchup. Again, I'm more concerned with tough defenses: teams like the Broncos or Chargers or Patriots are not the same tough defenses we faced even last year. A team that can keep us under 20 scare me more than a team that wants to get into a shootout, because I trust our D to fuck them up. Now, I think we would beat the Titans in a playoff game, because Kerry Collins has exhibit A (2000 season SB versus a nasty Ravens D) in his resume. And if Vince Young comes back I don't know that they're any better. But a tough D is a concern.
4. Jacksonville. They've been wrecked by injuries, but seem to be playing better of late, and if they in any way round back to form, they always match up well against us. We thoroughly outplayed them, and still it was a close match. I think they miss Marcus Stroud in that DL, and their IOL is going to be a mess all year, but I would never count out the Jags in a playoff game against us.
5a., 5b, 5c. San Diego, Indianapolis. Something is off with the Chargers D' that cannot be explained by the absence of Shawn Merriman. Putting aside the drubbing they doled the Pats, they have given up yards and points like a crack whore gives up the punami for coin. Two weeks ago, they looked like they were going to lose to the Oakland Raiders, as the score of 15-0 bubbled along for quite some time. Miami beat them. They've given up an average of over 23 PPG, and over the 1-2 opening record they allowed 26, 39, and 29. For all their vaunted offensive firepower, who are their downfield threats? You shut down Gates and LT and they are done. Guys like Vincent Jackson have good games against us, which says something.
Indy is about at SD's level based on their annihilation of the Ravens D, but they've sleepwalked through the season thus far. Houston was on the verge of breaking into the win column, convincingly, until Sage fucking Rosenfels handed the game to them on a silver platter. They did not look particularly elite losing to Chicago, or winning against Minnesota (they should have lost), or losing to a banged up Jacksonville team. They just don't have it this year, and again, if the Steelers D does what it does best, they don't get on track. And their defense doesn't scare rabbits.
Broncos look like they might wire-to-wire the AFCW, and promptly fold in the playoffs. Their offense is showing signs of slowing, and the D is nowhere in sight. Very similar team to the Chargers, with perhaps less talent and a better record? Certainly nowhere near as strong a team as the one we beat in the 2005 AFCC. Still, a weak division could give them a record good enough for a bye or homefield.
6. Buffalo Bills. Bills are tied for the second-best AFC record, with Pittsburgh, at 4-1, behind the 5-0 Titans. Still, they look like a house of cards. Yes, they are balanced: a good defense, a good offense, and very good special teams. But in no facet do they scream greatness. Last year, they were under-valued because the Patriots flat-out dominated the division, and the Bills were decimated by injuries, possibly one of the worst injury seasons of recent memory. Dick Jauron has the team on track this year, but they strike me as very green. Trent Edwards is maturing, but once he was knocked out of the Cardinals game the team came unglued. I think the Bills win the division and lose early in the playoffs, and we match up extremely well.
7. New York Jets. Could Favre get better in Mangini's system and be a real late-season threat? Yeah, maybe. I don't see his receivers as being on par with Green Bay's, and certainly not among the best in the AFC (Harrison/Wayne, Ward/Holmes, etc.). But I note them, because basically this same team (switch out Pennington for Favre) still beat us in an embarassment last year. There was no reason for that then, and none for them to beat us now, but we've fucked up inexplicably before.
8a., 8b. Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots. This is really pushing it. I think both teams miss the playoffs, actually, even with the Patriots' at 3-2 and record since 2001. The Patriots have a hack running the QB position, despite the occasional highlight throw deep to Moss, which ironically underscores Cassell's inability to do anything consistent in heaving the rock 5+ yards. Their D is also weak, and you can run all day at those old fucks up the middle. They also lost their secondary, which means you can throw on them. I still think Belichick is finding some way to cheat, because he's a nasty fuck that way. But we can and will beat the motherloving bejesus out of the Patriots when we play them this year.
The Dolphins, a joke a year ago, have beaten the Chargers and the Patriots. Mull that one around in your brains a bit if your think either of those teams are serious concerns to us, or if you think this Miami team is to be completely written off. They're playing heady ball, if inconsistently (think: Atlanta), which could be scary in the playoffs if they get there. But, rookie HC, and too much AFC competition make me think that's awfully unlikely. Still, not a bad comeback (again, like Atlanta) from the depths of 2007.
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Cleveland. Expected some dropoff from last year, not a drive off the cliff. Good God. Go ahead and put in Brady Quinn, it won't matter. The Browns suck in all aspects save perhaps special teams.
Cincinnati. OK, admit it: you thought I was being too hard on the poor Pussies of Cinci when I predicted they'd go 3-13, right? Even if Palmer played every week, they would still be 0-fer. Their offensive line is a sieve, their offense is out of synch, their defense blows. They best they can say is they played a couple of games close. Their schedule doesn't suddenly cupcake, so 3 of the final 10 is a real possibility.
Houston. Should be 2-3 rather than 1-4, but either way they're done for this year. I hear that Gary Kubiak is some kind of offensive genius, but are these Texans really any better than the old Carr/Capers teams? Before you launch into any lengthy analyses or discourses of the differences of Texans, then and now, let me save you the effort: no, they're not really any better. And the ways that they might be don't mean much right now, OK?
Kansas City. I mean, they've won their Super Bowl, the "upset" against Denver, and they may not wi a single game from here on. They are part of an abysmal sediment of the NFL that runs deeper than any I can remember for ages. I mean, the Lions, Rams, Chiefs, Texans, Bengals, Seahawks, Raiders, and possibly 49ers, are about 25% of the NFL that might have a hard time beating Michigan. Or Toledo for that matter. My God, since when has parity meant so many teams have to be so fucking bad?
Oakland. The whole Davis-Kiffin fiasco aside, the Raiders have some defensive stuff, and some playmakers at the O skill positions, but they're going to need time. At 1-4, they're not making the playoffs, and are guaranteed a top 10 draft spot, yet again. I fear the Raiders much the way I fear some freak accident involving slipping on warm dogshit on the lawn and cracking my head on the cement of the sidewalk: not effin' likely, but it would be insanely embarassing if it ever happened.
In all this, I still think the NFC is, on whole, more worrisome than the AFC. In other words, we have a solid crack in the playoffs, which, at 4-1 with the Ravens second-best at 2-3, looks pretty damned likely. But even if we won a Super Bowl berth, I think the NFC playoff roster would be more worrisome than the AFC. The real impact of parity has been to swing the pendululum from the AFC to the NFC. The NFCE is in a full-scale existential crisis mode right now, with the Cowboys losing Romo and dropping some games, the Eagles way too inconsistent and losing Westbrook, and the resurgent Redskins losing to the abysmal Rams. Still, I see the four NFCE teams as still better top to bottom than most AFC potential playoff teams. Arizona, Carolina, and TB are 4-2 teams that have some juice. Atlanta is 4-2 but may be too green. The Packers, Bears, and Vikings are all underperforming, IMO, but would be tough playoff draws if they got their shit together. So the NFC may be a more contentious playoff bracket, and therefore be better prep for the NFC winner. My surmise is that the NFC playoff teams, on whole, may comprise more of the top defenses than the AFC, although to the AFC's credit, and for the Steelers optimists, I still believe that the top 3 of the prospective 12 playoff teams' defenses belong to the AFC (Steelers, Ravens, Titans).
If the Steelers can get to the AFCC, I think they have a great shot at the whole works this year.
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Great stuff, Finny. I'd reverse 2 and 3, though. Fisher's way too smart to fall into any kind of QB controversy, and Collins+Titans D>>Flacco+Ravens D. Also, I'd move New England above Buffalo or at least the Jets. Belichick's capable of anything at all (and when I say anything, I mean, as we all know,
). I'd much rather get a Jauron-led team or an immobile Favre in the playoffs.
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Because Eastern Plumas Health Care has been granted an exemption from the Medi-Cal cuts, distinct-part skilled nursing facility residents like Bob Kylberg will be able to stay at the hospital that has become their home. Photo by Carolyn Carter
The mood was light and smiles were aplenty at the Eastern Plumas Health Care board meeting Aug. 22. After hearing the hospital would be exempt from the 23 percent Medi-Cal cuts that threatened the facility with closure, there was a tone of triumph in the board members and hospital staff.
Board Chairwoman Gail McGrath commended hospital Public Relations Coordinator Linda Satchwell for her outstanding diligence in researching and asking questions that brought essential facts to light.
"(Satchwell) did an absolute bang-up job," she said. "I want to commend her on her efforts."
The board congratulated Satchwell on her ability to dissect the access study orchestrated by the state, and find flaws, which created grounds to ask for an exemption from the drastic cuts.
Satchwell accepted the thanks at the meeting and recognized CEO Tom Hayes as a vital instrument in the whole process. She said they covered a broad spectrum of possible solutions to the cuts, from legislative measures, multiple trips to Sacramento, and finally to the help of John Mendoza of the Department of Health Care Services.
"We got lucky," said Hayes. "We got someone from the state who cared."
Hayes also said that due to EPHC's ability to get an exemption, 27 out of 56 other hospitals affected by the cuts would also be exempted.
"It's great that our little hospital did this," said Satchwell.
The board members agreed they would write a letter to the employees of the hospital and thank them for their steadfastness during the trying past few months.
"The response from the community has shown joyous support of this hospital," said Satchwell.
Though the hospital is exempt from the cuts, there is still the matter of the retroactive cuts dating back to June 2011, which means the hospital still owes the state $2.4 million.
Board member Lucy Kreth asked why the hospital had to pay back the retroactive cuts. According to hospital CFO Jeri Nelson, the state has already spent the money, and because it was a legislative process put into law, the state can't go back and change it.
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At this point, the exemption has made it possible for the hospital to open its doors again to Medicare and skilled nursing patients.
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Mona HillCalifornia's perennial budget drama left Feather River Community College District trustees approving a tentative budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year that incorporates a 15 percent reduction.
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The board met Thursday, June 16, and Jim Scoubes, director of Business Services and chief financial officer at Feather River College, outlined the essential elements of general fund reduction for the trustees.
Planning for the budget began last August and involved not only the budget committee, but also the strategic planning committee and an ad hoc advisory committee.
The ad hoc committee, composed of Human Resources Director Jamie Cannon; Dr. Lisa Kelly, interim dean of Student Services and Enrollment Management; history professor Dr. Tom Heaney; and incoming Interim Dean of Instruction and Chief Instructional Officer Dr. Derek Lerch, was charged with developing a base budget.
Scoubes reported the committee identified $557,729 in corrections, reductions in force and cuts to operational expenditures, less than half of the amount needed to achieve a general fund reduction of $1,667,417, or 15 percent.
Ultimately a combination of operational savings, associate faculty reductions, across-the-board salary cuts, and management and classified layoffs led to the tentative budget Scoubes presented to trustees for approval at their June 16 board meeting. (See accompanying sidebar for details of the individual item savings.)
Pending a signed state budget, Scoubes anticipates unrestricted general fund revenues of $11,419,784 and restricted general fund revenues of $2,478,871, for total anticipated revenue of $13,898,655 in 2011-12, down from $14,560,870 in 2010-11.
Trustees approved the tentative budget unanimously.
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Scoubes was again before the board later in the meeting, requesting approval to allocate $700,000 from Secure Rural Schools (Forest Reserves) funds to cover estimated cost overruns on learning resource center (LRC) construction.
According to material Scoubes submitted to the trustees, as of July 1, 2010, the fund balance stood at $1.22 million and the district received an additional $296,684 during the 2011-12 fiscal year, totaling just over $1.5 million.
Of that amount, Scoubes proposes to pay $71,081 in current year expenses unrelated to the learning center project and $45,000 in LRC contactor settlement.
Scoubes also anticipates an additional $484,351 in improvements and repairs at the residence halls, computer upgrades and other capital improvements.
He requested an additional set-aside of $300,000, bringing total proposed Secure Rural Schools (SRS) earmarks to $900,432.
Scoubes' oral presentation to the board centered on $700,000 in estimated cost overruns for the LRC project. He told the board that in the course of reviewing project costs he discovered an accounting error made in November 2010.
At that time, the state alerted the college that it was releasing funds for the construction project. When the construction account was credited with the disbursement, there was an unexplained failure to adjust for expenses already accrued against those funds. The resulting total gave the impression that there was more money than there really was — by about $308,000 — Scoubes' best estimate as of the morning of the board meeting.
Stunned silence followed that announcement as trustees digested the information.
Board president Bill Elliott asked if that could be paid out of the contingency set-aside.
Adding insult to injury, Scoubes told the board the contingency fund had already been spent paying for unanticipated soil analysis and the required design changes.
In the planning phases of the construction project, the college commissioned a soils report to provide the architect and engineer with information needed to design and construct the building's foundation.
As it turned out, bedrock was not where it was expected to be. Another soil analysis by a different expert was prepared and the project re-engineered to accommodate new conditions.
Instead of the $276,000 budgeted for the original soils analysis, the actual cost was $402,700.
Re-engineering costs and the resulting project delays, as well as the inevitable change orders customary in any large construction project, have brought cost overruns to about $307,000, with work still to be completed.
Elliott asked, "How much do we have to pay today?"
Scoubes could only provide an estimate, which kept growing as Facilities Director Nick Boyd entered the discussion to explain about continuing work, anticipated final costs and payment of the remaining and customary 10 percent retention, $336,382.
As Scoubes became increasingly silent, trustees turned to Boyd and college president Ron Taylor to explain.
A clearly irritated Leah West, Area I trustee, asked, "Where's the control? I mean, November … hello?" Scoubes made no response.
Elliott asked if the district had recourse with the original soils engineer. Boyd had discussed the matter with the district's construction attorney, whose response was that the amount the engineer would be liable for, $125,176 — the difference between his bid and the actual cost — did not make legal action cost effective, even if the district had a stronger case.
Elliott appeared astonished and dismayed by the attorney's position.
Trustees eventually tabled the proposed allocation of SRS funds.
After expected contractor settlements and disbursement of 2011 SRS funds, the anticipated remaining balance as of June 30, 2012, would be $3,772.
In a telephone conversation the following day, Taylor estimated total overruns to be in the neighborhood of $900,000, money Area III Trustee John Sheehan clearly wanted to have available.
Sheehan commented later, "There are dozens of other capital improvements that need to be made. Other things that won't get done."


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Conclusion: Client-side decorations absolutely suck and any proponent is a retard!
Well, back then in 2010, before many people saw Wayland in action as there was very few videos of it, there was fears here that with CSD, the windows won't be movable at all. Obviously that was not the case
As I mentioned in the last posts, the video is from late 2010. There was no minimize support because back then, (there wasn't even a SHELL yet in 2010, which there IS now, so there was no place for minimized apps to go)
Right now, the minimize protocol patches are currently not yet merged. (Yes there has to be a protocol for minimize so that applications can tell which of it's windows should get a task entry, (and which ones should not, such as menus and tooltips)). I have tested them, and although I can't minimize from the window right now, I can minimize a hung surface by clicking on its entry on the panel. This proves that the Wayland protocol does not hinder Weston from being flexible with hung windows.
Perhaps in the future a helper tooltip could be attached to windows that are hung to provide a minimize button.
As far as moving with having to move hung surfaces with the super key, there was no ping protocol, which was added sometime last year (which means that feature did not exist when that video was filmed). Now Weston detects hung windows, and currently makes the entire window dragable without having to use the super key command.
Point is, Wayland is not going to introduce MS Windows type usability problems that you see with hung Windows applications, just because Wayland currently relies on using client side decorations. The Wayland protocol is stable in the sense that there is going to be no more API breakerage, but desktop features are still under development, and still need work in some areas.
(in fact what I think is with the issue with Windows is that the windows are somehow managed by the client as well as the decorations, I think I read that somewhere. With Wayland there IS a window manager.)
There's even some talk on the IRC of introducing a protocol that tells applications to not draw a decoration, and determine which applications should be decorated for optional server side decorations.
Wayland doesn't provide ANY ability to minimize apps yet. It's still being added.
The point is nothing will stop it from being able to allow frozen apps from being minimized. Once the functionality to do that for running apps is present, adding it for hung apps is TRIVIAL.
Learn to use basic problem solving skills.
While it will be supported, it will decidedly be a usability regression because of the need to poll the client, which is because Wayland's architecture.
Consider: I expect to be able to minimize* any window, any time, within 10ms**. No matter if the app is busy.
Under X, it works in all cases.
Under wayland, this would happen***: You click on minimize. Nothing happens. You wait 15 seconds. The app fades as unresponsive, and server controls are drawn. You have to re-click the new button.
This does three cardinal sins of user interface: it ignores your command, it makes you wait, and it makes you repeat your command. All usability regressions compared to the current state.
This is not possible to be worked around in the current design. Polling at 100Hz would waste your cpu unnecessarily, and even if it detected a hung app within 10ms, it would have to wait at least a second to avoid false positives. Kind of like Android touch screens have to wait after a tap to make sure it's not going to be a double tap (btw, I hate that wait as well. Terrible user design.).
* Optionally replace minimize here with mazimize, move, shade, and so on.
** The generally agreed usability limit is 100ms. My demands are stricter, but they are not unrealistic - X with a suitable WM has been able to meet that for years.
*** Based on reading the ping protocol patches.
If the compositor knows where and what size the window controls are (which it could know, if that information is provided within the theme), it could do the following:
1.) Detect a click in the area of the controls
2.) Passively wait for the client to notify it that an action was performed (minimize, close, etc.)
3.) If nothing is received within 100ms:
3.1) By default, force the action and tell the client that the action was forced.
3.2) If the client overrides the default, pop-up a window asking the user if he would like to close the unresponsive program.
Here, there is no polling. Only a few extra communications (only occurring when a click is performed within the bounds of the window controls), and a maximum wait time of 100ms (only if the program is unresponsive).
Yes, that is the obvious solution for anyone who is willing to sit and think for a few seconds before declaring that the whole architecture must be broken because they said so.
The compositor can simply make sure it gets a response within the prescribed amount of time whenever the user attempts some action on the window, and if no response is gotten it knows the app is hung. If the user isn't trying to interact with the window, then there is no reason to do anything to it, whether it's hung or not.
At 60Hz, that's six frames; at 70, 7 frames. (unless I calculated that wrong...)
.1s = 100ms, 60Hz = .016_frames/s, .1s/.016_frames/s = 6 frames
That's 1/10th of the monitor's refresh rate. Detectable, I guess, if you're paying attention. I guess the delay could reasonably be reduced to 50ms, or three frames, but I don't see that making a huge difference. I can see jitter and ghosting in some 60Hz displays in the store (which are probably configured improperly...meh), but I can't see much of a delay when tapping on my Android phone.
Previously it was only mentioned the compositor would know the location of the close button - if it has to know everything, that of course changes things.
The current code would do as I described, no?. The better solution only matters once it is implemented.
Also, if the mentioned solution was obvious, why was it not the first to be implemented, instead of the 15sec wait and friends?
I thought it was. I know i've seen that solution discussed on the Wayland lists, so it's not unknown to the developers. If not, then I'm sure it was just a matter of getting something done quickly, and then fixing it in a better manner later when there is more time.
Note that it's not just click events that it can watch - it can also ping the app whenever the mouse button enters the application window, so that if you are moving the mouse to click on the minimize/close buttons that 100ms timeout will likely hit before the mouse even reaches the buttons. Then it can draw the new UI on top of the window before you click at all.


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When you develop a SharePoint 2010 portal for an Organization, your portal may need to connect to an external software system for e.g. an already available accounting software system. To establish such communications in SharePoint 2010, we can use the Business Data Connectivity Web Service. This service helps to establish communication between the SharePoint 2010 portal and an external data source like SQL Server, WCF and other .NET types.
In this article, I am going to explain how to establish connection between SharePoint 2010 portal and WCF service. To consume WCF service, I have used SharePoint Designer 2010.
Note: To learn how to establish connection between SP2010 and SQL Server, read my previous article
SharePoint 2010: Connecting to SQL Server Using the External Content Type Feature
For this article, I already have created a Web Site 'http://MyServer/sites/ss'.
Step 1: Open VS2010 and create a new WCF Service Application, rename 'IService1.cs' to 'IService.cs' and 'Service1.cs' to 'Service1.cs'. Open 'IService.cs' and add the following method and class in it:
Step 2 : Open Service.cs and implement the 'IService' interface in Service class:
Step 3: Open Service.svc in markup by right-clicking on it and change the Service attribute as shown below:
<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="WCF_For_SPS.Service" CodeBehind="Service.svc.cs" %>
Step 4: Publish the Service on IIS (IIS 7.0). The communication will happen in the following manner:
Now to communicate from the Web Site to WCF, follow these steps
Step 1: Navigate to the 'http://MyServer/sites/ss' web site. Click on 'Site Actions' on the top left, and select 'Edit in SharePoint Designer' as below:
Step 2: The SharePoint 2010 Designer will open with the Site. Click on the 'External Content Type' from the left pane as shown below:
This action will open the 'External Content Types' window.
Step 3: Click on the 'External Content Type' on the top left. This will open the 'New External Content Type' window as shown below:
Set the Name of the External Content Type as shown below, the Office Item Type is set to 'Generic List'
Click on 'Click here to discover external data sources and define operations' and you will get the 'Add Connection' as shown below:
Click on 'Add Connection'. You will see the 'External Data Source Type Selection' window. Select WCF from it as shown below:
A 'WCF Connection' window appear where you can enter the WCF Service Metadata URL and Service EndPoint URL as shown below:
Note: Instead of the localhost please specify IP address or name of the server.
The WCF Service will be added in the SharePoint 2010 Designer as shown below:
Step 4: Now once the WCF Service is configured with the Site, we need to define Operations for the List generated. Right Click on the 'GetEmployees' method and select 'New Read List Operation':
This will start the 'Read List Wizard' as shown below:
Click on 'Next' and you will get the 'Input Parameters Configuration' window. Since there is no input parameter for the method, you can simply click on 'Next'. You will get the 'Return Parameter Configuration' screen. Since the method returns an Employee List, we need to set an identifier as shown below:
Click on 'Finish'. You will get the 'GetEmployee' operation List.
Step 5: Right Click on 'GetEmployeeByEmpNo' and select 'New Read Item Operation' as shown below:
This will bring up the 'Read Item' Wizard window
Click on 'Next' and you will see the 'Input Parameters Configuration' window, for this method the input parameter is 'EmpNo', we need to map it with Identifier as below:
Click on 'Next' again. Since the return parameter for this method is an 'Employee' object, we need to set 'EmpNo' as map to the Identifier as shown below:
Click on 'Finish' and you will get the 'GetEmployeeByEmpNo'.
Step 6: Let's move to add Insert operation. To do this, right –click on 'InsertEmployee' method and select 'Create New Operation' as below:
This will start the 'Create' Wizard as shown below:
Click on 'Next' to see the 'Input Parameters Configuration' window. Once again, since the input parameter for this method is the Employee object, we need to set 'EmpNo' as Map to the Identifier as shown below:
Click on 'Next'. Since there is no output parameter for this method, you can simply click on Finish. You should get all the operations listed as shown below:
Save the configuration by clicking 'Save' button on the top left of the SharePoint 2010 Designer.
Step 7: Now to create a List, click on the 'Create List & Form' on the Ribbon of the SharePoint 2010 designer as shown below:
In the 'Create List and Form for EmployeeWCFServiceList' window, enter the List Name as shown below:
This creates a List on the Web Site.
Step 8: Open the Web Site and you will find the 'EmployeeEWCFListData' list created in the Quick Launch bar
Step 9: Click on the List and you will see the following result
You must be wondering why do you get the 'Access denied by business data connectivity' error? The reason can be understood by this simple architecture diagram shown below:
Since the user has to be impersonated by the WCF Service, we need to set the access rights for the user.
Step 10: To set the Access rights, Open SharePoint Central Administration > 'Application Management' > select 'Service Applications' and click on 'Manage Service Applications'. You will see the 'Business Data Connectivity Service'. Click on it and you will get the External Lists as shown below:
Select 'EmployeeWCFServiceList' and click on the 'Set Object Permissions' on the Ribbon. The 'Set Object Permissions' window appears. Add the user in it as shown below:
Step 11: Refresh the Web Site. The result will be as shown below:
Step 12: Select a Record on the List and click on 'View Item' as shown below:
Step 13: To insert a record, click on 'List Tools' on the Ribbon and select 'Items' from it. Then click on 'New Item' as shown below:
Step 14: The New Item Window appears. Enter the record info in it as shown below:
Click on 'Save' and the newly added record appears in the List
Like wise, you can implement the Update and Delete methods also.
With the External Content Types feature provided in SharePoint 2010, communication between two systems can be achieved easily. By using WCF Service with Business Data Connectivity, a SharePoint 2010 portal can easily connect to any external system within the organization or even to an external software system outside the organization.
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