Site Columns, Content Types, and Curly Braces
This actually came up a while back during a training course on MOSS customization and branding but I was reminded of it while doing the mind-numbing work of manually creating site column and content type features for a client. When you assign a GUID to a Feature it is up to you whether or not […]
Ontolica Search Workshop in Dallas Sept. 18th
The folks from Mondosoft are putting on an Ontolica Search Workshop here in Dallas on September 18th. Ontolica is one of my favorite third-party SharePoint add-ons (along with Colligo Contributor and BDC MetaMan). If you need some extra horsepower in your portal search then be sure to check out what Ontolica has to offer. […]
Quick Tip on Enumerating Group Permissions
A workflow I designed for a client was doing something very simple – enumerating the members of a publishing approval group and displaying the user names on the workflow initiation form (which happened to be an ASPX page) – when all of a sudden content authors could no longer initiate the workflow. Each attempt was […]
AC in Big D!
No, I don’t mean air conditioning (although that’s an absolute requirement here through November), I mean Mr. Web Content Management himself, Andrew Connell, will be in Dallas September 17th – 20th presenting the WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 2007 WCM class for The Ted Pattison Group. AC has been kind enough to agree to […]
SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 from iDevFactory
Bob Fox just turned me on to the SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 from iDevFactory. This looks really cool. I’ve used their Universal SharePoint Manager product before and it’s rock solid. Full review and screenshots to follow. They have free trials of both products. So why are you still here? Go check ’em out!
DFW SharePoint Community September Meeting
If you plan to be in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area on September 18th be sure to drop by Microsoft’s campus around 4:30PM for the September meeting of the DFW SharePoint Community. Our very own Sean Skinner will giving a talk on building scalable, secure Line of Business (LOB) applications in SharePoint with loads of demos. […]
September SharePoint UK User Group Meeting
September’s SharePoint UK User Group meeting will be held at Thames Valley Park in Reading (Microsoft Campus). Schedule is aas follows: 1800 – 1830 arrive 1830 – 1930 – OBA, Office Business Applications Explained – Patrick Tissegham This talk provides an overview of Office Business Applications. OBAs connect Line of Business (LOB) systems […]
Mapping Document Libraries in Windows Vista
Well here’s one that threw me for a loop. I was trying to do something very simple – map a network drive to a SharePoint document library to share a OneNote notebook. Should be easy, right? Well, it would have been if the WSS site wasn’t set to use Basic Authentication. Naturally, Vista gave me […]
Getting Associated Workflows in the SharePoint Object Model
Sean Skinner just posted a tip on getting all the workflows associated with a list using the Object Model. This is handy as selecting ‘Workflows’ from the drop-down, then selecting the workflow from the list of associated workflows is a bit cumbersome. Much easier to create a link directly to the workflow you want. Check […]
The ‘P’ in ‘SharePoint’ Stands for ‘Platform’
Last week we had a chance to do a friend a favor and talk to a university IT staff about SharePoint – what it is, what it does, and why they need it (and yes, just for Adam, the meeting started with them asking ‘What Is SharePoint?’). Our standard answer goes something like "SharePoint is […]