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There are occasions when we need to pre-populate SharePoint fields with data, such as from a query string. the solution is not that difficult, using a bit of Javascript. Paul blogged the solution of at Autosponge . (Code below copied from Autosponge and...
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Adam has a good thought provoking article on Best Practises. This is something I certainly agree with and have for a long time - whilst a 'best practise' may be the theoretical or purist approach, it is not always the most viable Gappy Holidays...
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A quick link to Joel who has posted a good article on thoughts for the future - how we should look at development. Funnily, this sits well with some of things we are starting to do - using xsl, in-built (or sometimes custom) web services to provide the...
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Firstly, huge kudos to Iain for reminding me of this today When you want to use teh 'Changed' event on a drop down list (or other control) in a browser based InfoPath form, you have to set the postback options to 'Always' = otherwise your...
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A recent prototype involved creating a ‘Whats New’ web part. This was required to display a total of the new of recent new content and the latest 5 items. We had a number of options when creating this, but we chose to build it quickly using...
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DataForm web parts enabled us to put forms onto pages that can interact with SharePoint lists. Why would we want to do this? well one example is that we can hide the list and it's URL's , another is that the form can be designed to contain custom...
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I travel by train to the office regularly now. Although this sometimes takes longer than driving, it is more consistent and it gives a couple of hours a day where I can do some reading without interuption (plus I feel I'm doing my bit for the planet...
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Quite often you will need to customise the search results and ensure that your custom metadata mappings are displaying correctly. To view the raw results, I undertake the following... a) Edit the results page (results, or people depending on what you...
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Following the previous post on search, this shows how to simply and quickly show a single users profile details on a page. Note, that this intended for MOSS (where we have the profile database) but could be re-worked for WSS to show details from the user...
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Hi guys, Recently I was creating a Web Part and I needed to get hold of the current login name for comparison. It was simple and didn’t require great amounts of code. Thanks you SharePoint for making life easier. string userName = SPContext .Current...
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The recent platform update to WSS and MOSS has bought into play Search Server 2008. Whilst very powerful on it's own. it allows us now to provide roll up funcitonality inside WSS or MOSS. Previously, roll ups were undertaken using Content Query Web...
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Having just gone through with Dave on using an alternative navigation in a master page I thought it useful to post on the Sharepoint Delegate Control. Andrew Connell has a great explaination on this in his Web Content Book & of course there is some...
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Crawling across blogs yesterday I stumbled upon Waldek Mastykarz 's blog. His articles on repeatable deplyoments were very interesting, but the post I thought I should pick up on is about extending help in Visual Studio for Sharepoint Development...
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We have recently rebuilt our entire development envirnonment and put a lot of shiny new PC's and server. Essentially, we are now working in a complete virtual environment, where our personal development servers, desktops, staging servers etc are all...
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One of the main complaints (?) of developers is that they have to undertake Sharepoint development inside of a virtual machine, or on a server. Personally, I don't find this a problem as long as you are not working against a live server!. Our new...
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