Have you ever tried to go to a SharePoint page in your browser and gotten an error like this? This screenshot is from SharePoint 2010, but this trick works in SharePoint 2007 as well. View Source on the page and you’ll see additional information down at the bottom, hidden inside a comment. sure, it’s still…
<UPDATE DateTime=”2010-11-18 10:36:00 EST”> Based on feedback from many people here and on Twitter, I’ve decided to build out my VM using Andrew Connell’s instructions. All of the admin types who have seen what I’m doing keep telling me things like “Well, if you want to do certain things down the road…” or “That’s not…
I got a question today from someone at one of my clients about how the All People page works. This is the page found at: http://[ServerName]/[SiteCollectionRoot]/[SubSitePath]/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0 Here’s the question: I’ve noticed that in the All People page of my department site, accessible from the People And Groups section, some users are listed with the Created…
Modal dialogs are great! They reduce postbacks! They pop up! And they may drive your users batty if they aren’t used to them. They can also get in the way if you want to understand the DOM for the forms while you are customizing them. Modal dialogs are great if they serve a good UI…
I had a question today about how to get the current user’s manager and put the value into a Person or Group column in a list. This one only works in MOSS or SharePoint Server 2010 (not WSS 3.0 or SharePoint Foundation) because the UserProfileService Web Service is only available there. The code is relatively…