Becoming Part of the SharePoint Community
My blogging is a bit light this week as I am in the UK working on delivery of a big project to a client here. While skimming my mountain of RSS feeds I noticed a new one from my numero uno amigo Bob Fox on SharePoint communities that’s a must read. Go check it out.
Reminder – UK User Group Meeting Sept. 17th
Just a reminder to all my UK friends and fellow SharePointers that the UK User Group meeting will be held on Monday, September 17th at Thames Valley Park in Reading. I will be there a bit early and staying late for any after-meeting pub action so be sure to stop by and say ‘Howdy’ (and no, I won’t […]
Using GetContentTypes with the Webs Web Service
I’ve been working on updating our SharePoint Utilities with support for Site Columns and Content Types in SharePoint 2007. Ideally, I would like the tool to have the ability to create site columns and content types on the fly it it sees them in the list structure and they don’t already exist on the site. […]
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 […]