I’ve written quite a few recursive XSL templates recently, so I thought I’d do a post explaining what they are and how useful they can be. On my current project, we’re using many Lookup Columns in Content Types which are based on items in Custom Lists. These Lookup Columns also are almost all multi-select, meaning that…
Once you have your SharePoint server up and running and begin to build up a corpus of content, you may find that certain documents aren’t turning up in searches. This may be due to not having the appropriate iFilters installed. From the Wikipedia entry: IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the…
When you want to display blog posts and announcements with DVWPs in your SharePoint Site Collection, you usually don’t want to display the full posts, but just enough to indicate what the item is about and to let the user know if they should click to see more. An example might be showing the last 3…
In an email from Microsoft the other day, I saw an offer for Microsoft Online Services and was curious about what’s available and what the pricing might be. After navigating through the too byzantine process to get to it, I was able to see the pricing below. Here’s the blurb on the Business Productivity Online…
Here’s a head-scratcher for you… In a SharePoint Document Library where you have Versioning and Check In/Check Out enabled, when you first upload a document, the “save” button on EditForm.aspx is labeled “Check In” and saves and also checks the document in (good). On a subsequent edit of the metadata (properties), you’re forced to check…
I recently went through the exercise of setting up Content Deployment in a client environment based on the information in an excellent post from Jackie Bodine. (Looking at it with the Way Back Machine let me see the images, which were broken in the current post.) For this client (as with almost all clients that…
I’m working on an Intranet where virtually everyone will be a Contributor. We’ve built custom navigation paths to customized forms for the content input, so we want to hide the “View All Site Content” links on every page. We want to hide it from everyone except the users who have Full Control. The master page,…
<UPDATE date=”2009-01-25″> I now have a function in my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services called SPSetMultiSelectSizes which accomplishes this in a more robust way, taking into account the font, font size, etc. </UPDATE> When you have a multi-select lookup column in a list, SharePoint provides you with a control that shows two select boxes next to each…
We just did a Site Collection backup from a development environment into a staging environment. The development environment can only be accessed through a VPN while the staging environment is available through the Internet. When I went to change the page layout for a site’s welcome page (default.aspx), I got the following error: After some…
SharePoint has a nice capability on many pages where, if you pass a Query String parameter named Source with a value of a page URL, the user is returned to that page when they are done with the activity. An example would be when a user clicks on an ‘Add new document’ list on a…