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…