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…
The People Picker is the control you see on the page when a column or field needs to contain a user. (Not just the text representing a user’s name, which you should really almost never do, but the actual user object as understood by SharePoint.) It looks something like this. (This is an example from…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> I often get questions like “Why would you use the Web Services? Can’t you just use managed code and be done with it?” Once…
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…
There are times when I’ve built up a page with complex Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) which take a *really* long time to load in SharePoint Designer 2007. The usual reason for this is that I’m using a Web Service as a DataSource which returns a large amount of data or that I’ve got many…
For whatever reason, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom seems to have removed the ‘Connect to another library…’ link in the Data Source Library in SharePoint Designer 2010. Maybe that capability is hidden somewhere else now, but as my pal Chris Givens pointed out the other day in his Missing Features from SharePoint Designer 2010 post, it’s…
This is a little one, but still really useful. There may be times that you need to add Web Parts to the default SharePoint list forms and you aren’t allowed to use SharePoint Designer. The most common reason you might want to do this is to add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to the…
<UPDATE> 2010-10-27: After you read this, be sure to read Christophe’s follow-up to this post: About Scripts, Web Parts and Urban Myths. He gives some other specifics you’ll probably need. </UPDATE> One of the things I heard at SPTechCon several times was that in SharePoint 2010, it is no longer possible to put script into Content Editor…
The first thing I want to say is that the folks at BZMedia really know how to put one of these things together. The thing that really tells me that is that they were smiling and helpful through the whole darn thing. If you’ve never been involved in planning an event even 1/8 this size,…
Boy, I feel sort of ungrateful for not having blogged about this already. Last month, the good folks at Microsoft invited me to New York City to participate in an afternoon session to “showcase the end-to-end value proposition across the information worker (IW) solution set. In a nutshell, this will be a half day summit…