Over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog, there’s a nice post from Jon Campbell about how to plot your data using Virtual Earth. The first step is to get your data into nice shape using some geocoding service. There are many of these out there these days, but Yahoo’s service has been many people’s…
I’m on vacation this week in Topsail, NC with my extended family. It’s hot as Hades outside, and as long as my family doesn’t drag me outside to the beach, I’ll be catching up on the SharePoint-oriented blogs I try to watch. (I love the beach, but at 96 degrees, I can only take so…
As anyone who follows my blog (or is unfortunate enough to get roped into a conversation with me about it) knows, I’m a HUGE fan of the Data View Web Part (aka Data Form Web Part or DVWP). Chris O’Brien has written two great posts (so far) about using just the SPDataSource to get at…
If you have a parent/child relationship between two lists, you will undoubtedly want your users to be able to create child items without having to type in the common key or ID. I’m not going to go into the full architecture of this here, but here’s an important part of the process. Let’s say that…
Here’s another one of those things that’s so obvious that you’ve probably never noticed it. When you configure a view, one of the sections on the page is the Style section (fourth from the bottom in most cases, collapsed). I’d never really looked at them but they all look like they would be useful in…
I was trying to save a site as a template today including the content, and I got the error ‘Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file’. I found a workaround on Ragav Jagannathan’s site: http://ragavj.blogspot.com/2008/02/failure-decompressing-data-from-cabinet.html …This error "Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file" can be avoided by using the stsadm command line tool of…
If you’re like me, you’re constantly finding new useful things in SharePoint that have been sitting right in front of you all along. I’m working with a smart guy named Bob Nash from CSC at a client right now, and he just showed me a cool thing you can do with a list column. …
I was having a problem with Meeting Workspaces today. The links to each meeting instance on the left Quick Launch were not working, and every time we clicked on one of them, we would get a JavaScript error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined. At first, I assumed that my CSS must be hiding a control that was required…
I’ve been caught by this one more times than I’d like to count, so I wanted to post about it. If you copy code (or any text for that matter) from the Web, it often may contain a double quote character. There are actually two double quote characters, ” and ”. See the difference? (No, it’s…
I got another comment to my previous post about Web Parts falling off the page this morning that I can’t respond to due to the sender’s communication preferences, so I’ll answer it here. Hi Marc, With reference to your blog entry have you found any solutions to this weird problem. I am having the same…