When you are building a DVWP in SharePoint, there are some project (Web site) and list properties that are available to you directly from CAML that aren’t well-documented, which you can use if you request them directly. For instance, if you add the following to your CAML <ListProperty Name=”Title” /><ProjectProperty Name=”Title” />, the titles of…
I want to thank my ex-colleagues at Vitale, Caturano for a great event today in Waltham at Microsoft’s offices. There were some good presentations about the use of Sharepoint in the enterprise, about some of the vendor offerings in the space, and specific stories about how SharePoint use has evolved by Andy Kawa from Goodwin Procter LLP and by…
It’s been a quiet week here in Lake Wobegon…Oh, wait, that’s not my tagline. But I have been quiet lately, busy with a number of things. One of those things has been building a Web site for my wife’s business. It’s been fun to work outside of SharePoint for a while. I’ve learned a few…
I’ve had this happen often and I’ve usually just left the unused master pages, since they aren’t really hurting anything. Today I finally decided to try to see if I could get rid of a pile of old copies of master pages I had lying around, and I found this Microsoft article which explains a workaround. …
I think I’ve found a bug in using aggregate data sources in DVWPs with SQL Stored Procedures. I’m trying to use the results of a Stored Procedure combined with the content of a list in SharePoint. I’ve isolated the issue to the Stored Procedure. The first asp:SqlDataSource statement below is what I want the data…
I think the title says it all. If you’re using script in your pages, you should get IE8. QED
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,…