I’m often asked about the differences in Office 2003 and 2007 compatibility with SharePoint. There’s an extremely detailed document on Microsoft’s site that explains it in ‘Good, Better, Best’ terms. You can find the article entitled Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Products and Technologies Integration – Fair, Good, Better,…
I got a comment on one of my earlier posts about SharePoint branding (the look and feel of sites, including colors, fonts, page layouts, etc.). I couldn’t respond directly due to the person’s communication settings on their Live Space, so I thought I’d answer it here: Marc, Great blog, but I was wondering if you…
Every time I get to the point that I think I’ve got a reasonable handle on what is available within SharePoint, someone points out something I didn’t know. SharePoint (whether you are referring to WSS or MOSS) is just a really large beastie, and there’s a lot to it. The other day, a new…
Even when you have workflows that work fine when they are fired due to an event (a new item or a change to an existing item), you may receive the error "The data source control failed to execute the insert command" when you start them manually. Usually you start workflows in a SharePoint site manually…
When you try to create a Document Workspace for a document in a Document Library in SharePoint, you may see the error: "This document is already stored in a Document Workspace. A new Document Workspace cannot be created for this document." The error can be a little misleading. It can occur when you try to create a Document…
Following up on my recent post about getting the current value of a People Picker on a form, today I built the JavaScript to set the value, and here it is. As usual, I’ve left in my debugging code in case you want to see how it works.
I’d tried several times to update the BIOS on my Dell Latitude D820 Laptop running Vista, but I always got errors. Since a new version of the BIOS (A08) had been released, I decided that it was time to get to the bottom of things. I found a post by E-Gizmo over on the Dell…
This post is really more of a plea (assuming that anyone is out there reading this). Tell me that I’m not losing it. I have built an "application" in a SharePoint site. (This application manages the sporting event tickets that my client has available to dole out to various executives to use with clients.) The…
I had a scare last Friday when I thought that some pages in an application that I had already deployed to a production SharePoint site were failing due to a large number (3300+) of items in a list. Turns out that it wasn’t the problem, but it’s worth understanding that the party line says that…
There’s a nice article over at the SharePoint Designer Team Blog about how to manipulate a List Form Field (AKA Data Form Field) using Javascript. It gives some great methods to accomplish this, but if you’d like to get the current value of a People Picker on a form (for validation purposes, most likely), the info…