Comments on: Web Part to show upcomming birthdays in SharePoint

By: Moiz

Moiz — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:23:17 +0000

gr8 work.. i have implement in moss2007. cannot resolve the Access denied issue. cant find any download link for the update you have given]

Thanks

By: Emmanuel B

Emmanuel B — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:45:48 +0000

It works excellent for me. Thanks

By: Kirill

Kirill — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:15:58 +0000

Thank you! Good instructions and good web-part! It really works.

Спасибо! Хорошие инструкции и отличная веб-часть! Все работает как надо.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:33:37 +0000

Hi Ervin,

Thank you very much for the SPOShowBirthdayWebPart. After installing the web part and putting it on the web part zone, it doesn’t show any birthday date & says There are no items to show in this view.

I saw this below response:
“Your users should enter their birthday into the “MySite/MyProfile/Details”. Webpart will pick up that User Profile to display the birtdays.
You could enter their birthday for them if you have access to the Central Administration, but that would be a lot of work.”

My question is: we have disabled the MYSITE link on our Sharepoint intranet, and so the users will not have be able to add their info on their own profiles. Can this webpart be linked directly with AD?? Or can we link the webpart to a list which already has this data??

Thank you so much

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:29:58 +0000

Hi Ervin,
Thank you very much for your valuable post, After installing the web part & putting it on the web part zone, it doesn’t show any birthday date & says There are no items to show in this view.
what do i need to do to show the upcoming birthdays,
Please help me,
Deepak

By: Joao

Joao — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:28:59 +0000

Hi all,

I installed the webpart, but now its showing an ‘object reference not set to an instance of an object’. What could be the problem?

From wich field does the webpart gets the birth day info from?

Thanks,
Joao

By: Maya

Maya — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:29:47 +0000

hi again ,

no it did not work
since we don’t have userProfiles in wss.
can this webPart use the user information list in wss?
do you have the time to modify this part for me?

it will be to kind of you
Thanks again

By: Erwin

Erwin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:03:28 +0000

Hi Maya,

I don’t have a WSS 3.0 installation available to test the web part in, but I can tell you it uses UserProfiles, and I think that if WSS has userprofiles the web part should work. Let me know when you tried it out, if it doesn’t work I could try and fix that.

To answer your second question, I’m going to release a new version shortly where the username is a link to the profile of the user. Check my blog for more information.

Regards,
Erwin

By: Maya

Maya — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:03:11 +0000

Hello Erwin,

Thanks for great post.
I’m using wss3.0, is it possible to use this web part in wss3.0 and instead to show contact information of the users??

please reply me back to my email address
Thanks

By: Erwin

Erwin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:27:40 +0000

Ismail,

I’ll try and fix this in the next release, but I was wondering what should be displayed in that case? Any ideas?

By: Erwin

Erwin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:24:43 +0000

Evelia,

This Web part queries all your users for their birthday, do you have a lot of users in your SharePoint?

By: Evelia

Evelia — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:40:30 +0000

I am using this web part. It’s very usefull. However, I have a problem. It takes too much time to show the birthdays. Are there anything that I forgot to do it?.. Please, help me.

By: Ismail

Ismail — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:02:13 +0000

When any user enters February 29 as the birthday, the webpart displays the following “Year, Month, and Day parameters describe an un-representable DateTime.”? Pls comment

By: Erwin

Erwin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:44:34 +0000

Neeaj,

Your users should enter their birthday into the “MySite/MyProfile/Details”. Webpart will pick up that User Profile to display the birtdays.

You could enter their birthday for them if you have access to the Central Administration, but that would be a lot of work.

By: Neeaj

Neeaj — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:57:11 +0000

so do i need to enter the user information in the AD , is that what you are saying ?

By: Erwin

Erwin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:38:15 +0000

Hi Neeaj,

This webpart queries the SharePoint user profiles to determine the birthdays, it doesn’t work with a custom list.

By: Neeaj

Neeaj — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:02:11 +0000

I have a custom list with a field called Date of Birth in it ? . How do i display that field in your webpart? Because for now it only shows no There are no items to show in this view. Do i have to use the Birthday Column ( from the parent site ) ? Please let me know

By: Erwin

Erwin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:31:18 +0000

George,

I will try to implement your suggestions (and those of others) into a next version of this webpart. Watch the blog for updates.

Regards,
Erwin

By: George

George — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:37:36 +0000

Hi Erwin,

Thanks for the webpart, works a treat. I too had the same error that Mariono had but was easily fixed following your instructions. I have one question though, it is possible to display the user’s Full Name (that is first name and Last name). At the moment, the user’s login name is displayed.

Cheers