At work we have MS SharePoint 2013 and I’m looking to orchestrate some processes with it. As with most use cases, it starts with a custom list of information and you wrap forms, workflow and other crap around it. I have one simple requirement that has lead me down a road of total crap!
My requirement is simple. When someone adds a new item to the list I want it, based on the id of the new item, to create a URL. This URL will take users directly to another part of SharePoint and pre-search/filter for related items.
After digging around in the Web UI and in SharePoint designer I was faced with the reality that I had to actually write code and deploy a solution. The code, what I had to write, was all of 6 lines. But in order to get VisualStudio ($$$$), get installed on one of the SharePoint servers, get all the permissions I needed to the server, SharePoint Farm, Collection and site was a nightmare.
This VisualStudio setup to develop SharePoint solutions is a nightmare!!! I would like to kick who ever developed this ecosystem in the ass!!!
On a side note… After getting my code running in our Stage environment I was never able to get this working in Production. I re-routed and went the Workflow way and life is much simpler now.