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  • Client Side Javascript Validation in SharePoint Custom Edit Forms

    Recently for a client engagement I used a Custom Field Iterator to control the edit and display form for a content type (more on this in an upcoming post). The requirement was for different fields to be made editable based on the state the list item was in. After deployment, the client requested that...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by IanD on 09-28-2008

  • CAML query to select items assigned to current user.

    So after much googling and trying all the suggestions at http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/e8891d49-1d82-422e-8c7f-eb99326ec14c We found the way to select from a list where the Assigned To user is the current user by building a view that has a filter criteria of Assigned...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by IanD on 08-07-2008

  • 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 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 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

  • DevConnections - Forms Authentication

    I attended a good session with Rick Taylor from Microsoft this morning on FBA (Forms Based Authentication) in SharePoint. This session had a particular interest to me because we have done quite of a but FBA implementations for our clients. It has turned out to be more popular than we originally thought...
    Posted to SharePoint (Weblog) by RyanT on 11-07-2007
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