OK, so you know how I’m going to come down on this, but I got your attention, right? In fact, at almost every large client I work with, the latter seems to be the opinion. The rules are usually: No SharePoint Designer use in staging and production. Period. This stems from a fundamental lack of…
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…
If you have a parent/child relationship between two lists, you will undoubtedly want your users to be able to create child items without having to type in the common key or ID. I’m not going to go into the full architecture of this here, but here’s an important part of the process. Let’s say that…
I’ve been working a lot with custom forms in SharePoint lately, and I’m finding all sorts of shortcuts. Here’s a good example. I’ve got a form on which I am allowing the user to select 1-n tickets for an event by ticking a checkbox in each row. The form displays all available tickets for the…
I’m working at a new client and just getting the machine that they have me using working the way I like it. I tried to open a workflow in SharePoint Designer and got the popup dialog: “Failed to load the workflow.” (I had already loaded .NET 3.0 to get the Workflow Foundation Classes.) A…