Here’s an update to an earlier post of mine about the “Failed to load the workflow” error in SharePoint Designer. This time when the error popped up, I was working on my Vista laptop. In Vista, the user settings are in a different place, and I had a little trouble finding them. Go to C:\users\[your_username]\appdata\roaming\microsoft\sharepoint…
Sometimes when you create and configure a Data View Web Part (DVWP), you’ll see the PermMask column show up on its own in the DataFields or the CAML in your DataSource. This happens most often when you are building a Crosslist query (DataSourceMode=”CrossList”). The PermMask column contains the permissions mask for the item for the…
When I read today in an email from Microsoft that IE8 was at RC1 status, I thought I’d give it another try. (I’d downloaded an early beta and it got in the way of me getting things done.) Once I’d installed IE8, rebooted, and launched it, much to my chagrin I was informed that the…
This is a little one, but a time saver all the same. I can never seem to find the “right” navigational route to the page which shows the permission levels (I think of them as roles and the page name backs me up!) in SharePoint. It’s the page at /_layouts/role.aspx. So: http://[yourservername]/_layouts/role.aspx From this page,…
Another name drop and tip ‘o the hat to Mauro Cardarelli for bringing this one to my attention. SharePoint Saturday is coming to Boston. I’m going to see if I can’t get in as a speaker to talk about my SharePoint Designer DVWP stuff. Working title: Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data…
My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted about this the other day: By now, you have probably heard about Microsoft’s decision on the future of PerformancePoint Server (Microsoft Business Intelligence Announcement Q&A). Kudos to friend Chris Webb for breaking the news… at least to me! For PerformancePoint jocks, this is probably bad news, but as a SharePoint…
I had a question from a colleague today about how to do an XSL transformation of some search results. Here’s the query: Basically, I want to do the following in XSL: Parse a managed property, urlEncoded, that has the format of http://[doc library]/[filename] to separate path and filename Take that prefix and concatenate it with…
I think I’ve found an interesting (if you think things like this are interesting) difference between Document Libraries and Custom lists when it comes to the use of Site Columns. I had some filtering code in a DVWP that ought to have worked the same way on both a Custom List and a Document Library,…
I’ve written quite a few recursive XSL templates recently, so I thought I’d do a post explaining what they are and how useful they can be. On my current project, we’re using many Lookup Columns in Content Types which are based on items in Custom Lists. These Lookup Columns also are almost all multi-select, meaning that…
Once you have your SharePoint server up and running and begin to build up a corpus of content, you may find that certain documents aren’t turning up in searches. This may be due to not having the appropriate iFilters installed. From the Wikipedia entry: IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the…