I recently went through the exercise of setting up a SharePoint Records Center site from scratch as part of a proof of concept exercise for a client. Since some of the bits and pieces of the process were scattered around the Web, I recorded all of the steps in case it might help someone out there. Create…
Having done branding (meaning applying custom CSS to change colors, fonts, etc.) to quite a few MOSS Site Collections, I wanted to offer a few tips and tricks to keep things clean and easy to maintain. I’ve mentioned some of these tips before, but I wanted to get them all into one post so that…
I continue to be intrigued by Popfly, Microsoft’s "mashup engine" (for lack of a better label): Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: 1 Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. 2 Popfly…
After a few weeks away in France and Spain, I’m back and trawling the Web for answers to unique and diverse questions from our clients. Today I read that one of the Microsoft Web sites that I’ve found useful over the years is being phased out: GotDotNet.com. You can read the details here. We are phasing…
By default, a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) My Site page does not contain a link back to the portal it serves. This leaves users confused about how to get back to the main portal other than using the Back button in their browsers. There is a simple fix for this. From the My Site page, choose…
I found a nice white paper today that outlines the steps required to enable incoming email for lists in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). Thanks to Steve Smith at Combined Knowledge for this excellent information! Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, incoming email
There are times when you want to upload multiple documents to a SharePoint Document Library. There are two places where you can specify this; one works, the other doesn’t (at least for me)… If you choose Upload Document, and then click the "Upload Multiple Files…" link (see below), you get the browser to specify the…
All of us SharePoint junkies want to see more SharePoint usage out there. I had the chance this week to use the Tzunami Deployer to move content from an EMC eRoom environment into SharePoint. It’s a slick tool that allows you to move entire structures, content, and security from one environment to the other. The Deployer also can…
The Discussion Web Part in SharePoint has always been a bit quirky. It doesn’t act like most other discussion applications and can often confuse users. One specific confusing "feature" is this. When you start a discussion, the Subject is visible as a link in the Web Part. If you click on the Subject, the same site will…
Following the tip that my colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted in his blog, I still wasn’t seeing any flyouts on the navigation tabs. I fiddled with things for a while and finally figured out why. I needed to change a single navigation option to make things work. Say you have a site hierarchy like: Home |…