The Discussion Web Part in SharePoint has always been a bit quirky. It doesn’t act like most other discussion applications and can often confuse users. One specific confusing "feature" is this. When you start a discussion, the Subject is visible as a link in the Web Part. If you click on the Subject, the same site will…
Following the tip that my colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted in his blog, I still wasn’t seeing any flyouts on the navigation tabs. I fiddled with things for a while and finally figured out why. I needed to change a single navigation option to make things work. Say you have a site hierarchy like: Home |…
The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of the writer with the new features below. Of specific interest is support for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) blogs. In fact, I’m using it to write this post! New Authoring Capabilities Inline spell checking Table editing Ability to add categories Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad Support…
UPDATE: I missed the fact that the Virtual Earth Recenter block allows me to set the zoom and altitude. Using that, there was no need to write any JavaScript at all to enable this mashup! I got access to the Popfly site and just built my first mashup. This is a very cool development platform,…
Very interesting blog post over at the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog from Mike Gannotti, a Microsoft Technology Specialist for SharePoint based in Raleigh, NC. entitled SharePoint and Popfly integration — yes, really! When I first heard about Popfly I wondered how it might work with SharePoint. The answer, as explained by Mike: very well! …