The real quote is a Chinese proverb that says: "Give me a fish and I eat today; teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." It is always best, in my experience, to show someone how to do something, but not to do it for them. "Fish Slap" has become a metaphor in the…
I admit that since it’s just shipped, I haven’t taken a look. However, the possibilities are intriguing. Between analyzing site performance, scalability, and uptime using this new tool and doing analysis on the search logs to optimize search hits and best bets, SharePoint site collections are becoming more powerful than much of the competition for community…
When you use the Data View Web Part in SharePoint to display documents in a document library, the "File Type" field that is available is text (doc, pdf, gif, etc.) rather than an icon. You’d really rather display the icon instead to be consistent with other document library views. Here’s how you can make that…
I posted earlier about editing the default.aspx file in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\MPS directory to apply branding to your SharePoint 2003 sites. I was focused on meeting sites at the time. Today I realized that each of the directories under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\ contains a default.aspx for a different…
I recently had an opportunity to mirror some Access reports in SharePoint. It reminded me how powerful Data View Web Parts in SharePoint really are. Here’s what I did… The Access front end was using SQL Server as its back end data server, so I knew that I could get at the data from SharePoint. …