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  • Twitter question

    A recent question on Twitter: "[SharePoint] costs as much to buy/implement/run in money as the productivity loss of not having it - agree or disagree?" I would say if you measure this in a vacuum, in the scope of one single project it's probably a wash (money out == savings). The real ROI...
    Posted to Syrinx on SharePoint (Weblog) by AndrewG on 02-16-2010

  • Grouped SPGridview Exceptions

    Yesterday I spent many hours trying to solve what should have been a simple issue - grouped views in a SPGridview. I was building a web part that used an embedded SPGridview - this was part of a template I created used by a TemplateBasedControl which was the created by the Web Part. All was working fine...
    Posted to Syrinx on SharePoint (Weblog) by IanD on 12-08-2008

  • Best Practices for Naming Sites and Pages.

    A comment I frequently hear is: SharePoint tabs don't always highlight properly. As it turns out, if you are in the habit of doing things a certain way, they always work. First, make sure you are turning on "Show Pages" and/or "Show subsites". You can find this in Site Settings...
    Posted to Syrinx on SharePoint (Weblog) by JoeS on 05-25-2008

  • 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 Syrinx on 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 Syrinx on SharePoint (Weblog) by JoeS on 01-30-2008
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