This is a little trick, but a useful one all the same. When you use the Publishing Site template for a site, you do not have the option in Site Settings to save the site as a template for reuse. There are probably good reasons for this due to the underlying structure of Publishing Sites,…
A great way to manage the values for a Site Column in SharePoint is to put the values into a list and then use the Lookup column type to grab the values. When you allow multiple selections in the lookup column, what is stored looks something like this: value1;value2;value3;value4 If you would like to then…
This one is a little embarrassing to report, because I’ve been frustrated with it and just living with it so long. However, maybe it will help a few of you out there. For a very long time, I’ve been getting regular script errors in IE7 on Vista. I assumed that it was some artifact of…
I love my iPhone. I mean I *really* love my iPhone. I’ve had it for about a month and a half now, and it is truly an amazing piece of technology and extremely well done. As most of us who are fundamentally Microsoft folks say, “Microsoft take note”! However, here’s a little bugaboo with SharePoint…
I’ve always been a lazy programmer and if you can believe it, I see this as a good thing. I never want to write anything more than once. (I’ve written an assembler-based keyboard handler for DOS. Do I need to do it again? As much fun as it was: no.) I also believe that the…
Lookup columns in SharePoint can be very useful as a way to standardize input values. One of the drawbacks of Lookup columns is that they violate the Rules of Data Normalization (see my previous post entitled “SharePoint Is Not a Database”). Specifically, by storing the text value of the lookup rather than the ID, we…
With Windows Vista and IE7, Microsoft introduced the Windows Common Feed List. This is a great facility that lets you share your RSS feeds between IE and Outlook (and any other Windows application that you want to use to access it). While I really like the capability, I’ve been frustrated that my feeds list is…
This is a simple enough task with a little JavaScript. Inserting the script below into your master page will output the date and time in the simplest way possible when the page is rendered: If your language is American English, you will see the following: Fri Oct 24 18:19:06 EDT 2008. Of course, if you’d…
This is something that I’ve told people more times than they really want to hear. Sure, SharePoint sits on top of SQL Server, which is an excellent database, but SharePoint itself is not a database! So is this a dire “abandon all hope, ye who enter here” message? Absolutely not. With planning and forethought, you…
This one might fall into the "Duh, Marc" category, but when I get stuck, I figure maybe someone else out there might get stuck, too. (And it makes me feel better to think that way.) I was trying to get Skype set up on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop this morning (which is running Vista),…