So far the book review is going well but they have sent me chapters two, three and then four and six thinking this is strange I asked the question, what about chapters one and five. I was told there have been issues with those chapters and will receive them when they are resolved. After reading chapter two it was obvious that chapter one was about the creation of game in general and Role Playing Games (RPG) specifically. I don’t know what kind of issues you can have with that sort of topic, strange. I’m not sure what chapter 5 is about.

Chapter two was fairly straight forward about the creation of the terrain concentrating on a free asset store item you can use to create terrain ‘easier’ and quicker than the built in terrain tools. I did not find that to be the case. In fact I found the terrain tool non intuitive and creating terrain from scratch much faster. They could have spent at least a little time explaining the build in terrain tools and the reader would get much more out of that chapter.

Chapter three was about bring in the player characters using another asset from the asset store, this asset is quite good. What readers of this book will need to understand is the author made no effort to create their own assets and if you would like to follow the book you will need to spend ~300.00 in the asset store plus the price of the book. At least the author could have provide some very basic assets for player characters, non player characters and the medieval environment for a small version of the level for basic playability.

SharePoint:

I think I have found the solution for the Change tracking in SharePoint (again) and it has nothing to do with Power Apps or Flow. I found PowerBI.  This tool from Microsoft creates the charts and list views that I was looking for. Unfortunately you still can’t visualize in real time but that was going to be a limiting factor no matter what.

I have decided to forget trying to find a solution to joining lists and doing workflows without SharePoint Designer 2013. I downloaded the program to all of my computers including work since there will be at least some support for the program for the next five or six years and it won’t be dead software for at least a decade. I’ll be long gone from Triumph by then. Probably retired and writing my own SharePoint books and training in Udemy and Lynda.com. I also loaded InfoPath for creating forms in all the same computers as well. More training ahead for me.

Unity, C#, Python and Blender

Starting to create some of my own assets for the book in blender but had to succumb to purchasing some of the asset store products to get myself up and running with what the book was trying to teach. I really should have my own assets ready to go for thing like this.

This last weekend:

This last weekend was the best yet. I spend most of it in Lynda.com learning SharePoint designer 2013 so I could get up to speed writing workflows using that tool. Not quite as intuitive as flow.microsoft.com and not nearly as powerful with the data sources you have using flow but definitely a powerful program once you learn the ins and outs.

Talk to you next week. I can’t wait for this next weekend coming up. It is going to be spectacular as Jeff Raley would say.

The ‘Boss’ is gone this week at work and she graciously announced that I will be her stand in. Wonderful….

SharePoint:

Continuing on with the Engineering/ME change tracking has not been an easy task. Microsoft deprecated the Access Web app which would have made updating the lists with new items, setting old items as complete and adding the responsible Engineers name so much easier. So far have have not found a suitable method for doing those tasks. I’m sure there is a method, I don’t think Microsoft would leave its customers out in left field like that but I have not been able to fine the solution just yet but I will keep trying.

Unity, C#, Python and Blender

All put on the back burner while I concentrated on SharePoint but can’t let it stay there. I found if I don’t keep up with new knowledge you can get rusty fast.

This last weekend:

The weekend was great and we even had an earthquake on Sunday at 5:19 pm US central time. It seems that nobody at work felt it.

Finally back to work after being so dang sick…

SharePoint:

On with the Engineering/ME change tracking. Uploading spreadsheet to list works perfectly now how to update as automatically as possible. I think Access is the answer with the use of some Update and append queries. This seems to be the answer since I was able to read a list from SharePoint into Access and then while they were both opened, updating either updated the other in real time. It worked great.

Unity, C#, Python and Blender

All put on the back burner while I concentrated on SharePoint.

This last weekend:

The weekend was not as good as the last one. It was still great but could have been better. I think I know the answer, I’ll share that later after a test this weekend.

I am finding it difficult again to keep up with all I am doing. From this point on I will touch on each area of training I worked on during the week regardless of how much.

SharePoint:

I completed the Lynda.com course on SharePoint 2016 Essential training today. Next up will be SharePoint Online Essential training. I learned a lot from the last course and since most of what we are doing at work is in a hybrid format I think learning both 2016 and Online is appropriate. Combining both the course work and YouTube videos I am making some good strides with our site at work. For example the course did not give examples of how flow.microsoft.com works but did give me the basics to create a custom list for the Vacation Requests. YouTube provided the information required for the work flow.

Not much time was spent on other software’s or applications as I am trying to get up to speed in all aspects of SharePoint I can to keep our organization organized. My next project for our site will be the tracking of Engineering and Manufacturing Changes. This will be  a challenge but I am up to it. Particularlly with the success I have with the vacation request work flow. I will plan for this project to consume two weeks of my time rather than one to fit in the testing required.

Unity, C#, Python and Blender

All put on the back burner while I concentrated on SharePoint. The

This last weekend:

All I can say is awesome.  So far the best weekend of the year.