I loaded IE8 about a month ago and since then I’ve been getting the error below after I check in a page. First, the usual message that the page needs to be approved: If I choose ‘Yes’, I get the error: “A World Wide Web browser, such as Windows Internet Explorer, is required to use…
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…
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…
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…
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…