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Notes from the field on SharePoint development, deployment and usage.

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  • Moving up to find that list

    I'm going to write a bit about a problem I ran into when I wrote a bulk upload application for one of my SharePoint clients. I found that when I was importing a document and applying a Content Type to it I needed to find the Lookup list values for one of the import fields. In looking for a list of...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by JohnF on 05-18-2008
  • MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Alternate Access Mapping

    I did a three day consulting gig 3 months ago where I installed and configured WSS 3.0, trained them on the basics of document libraries and lists, and converted a spreadsheet with multiple pages into a List so that their users could edit items simultaneously. They loved the item-level version history...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by JoeS on 04-15-2008
  • Checking for empty or null dates in SharePoint

    A client asked me today how to create a view filtered so that only items that where missing their Start Date, Due Date, or both. First, create a calculated column DatesMissing with the following formula: =NOT(AND(ISNUMBER([Start Date]),ISNUMBER([Due Date]))) Don't forget to set the type to Date!...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by JoeS on 01-30-2008
  • Site Definitions in SharePoint 2007

    For many of our clients we need to build custom site definitions. When building SharePoint solutions the terms site template, definition and to a lesser extent site portal are often used. Each of these allows the user to create a new site with a predefined set of Content Types, Layouts, and Lists etc...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by IanD on 10-15-2007
  • How to delete a MOSS My Site

    Deleting a user's My Site sounds like it should be very easy to find, but in some ways it is hidden in the administration and management of MOSS. In order to delete another user's My Site you need to be an administrator in the Site Collection that the My Site resides under. 1. Navigate to your...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by RyanT on 10-10-2007
  • SharePoint 2007 Employee Directory Web Part

    Many of our clients have asked us about some type of function or Web Part that lets them show a list of users in their site collection, specifically from the "Users and Groups" list that they can control. Out of the box MOSS gives you the Site Users Web Part. This is often discarded by the...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by RyanT on 10-05-2007
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