SharePoint Skater
Custom control and client script aficionado, neck-deep in a simmering SharePoint stew.
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SharePointBeginners: A new group for a global noob community
Recently, a discussion broke out (go figure) on a SharePoint list that I frequent. It had grown in size to the point where the more advanced members were sometimes turned off by the volume of questions that appeared TOO simple. This happens all the time, as something becomes larger and specialization is necessary.
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When SharePoint Designer has its own designs
Recently, a colleague came to me with a simple task and an inscrutable error. He just wanted to populate a text field with a querystring value. If you've ever done this in SPD, you know it's fairly simple: create a parameter, map it to a querystring value, and then use the resulting parameter name in your form field.
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Live Meeting error: malformed email address... or IS IT???
During a remote SharePoint training session this morning, Live Meeting presented one of our instructors with the following gem: "An attendee email address is malformed". This was particularly troubling since a wizard took care of adding all the entries, and they looked correct (even after being sifted through my character analysis tool).
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AgileDotNet in Dallas
This conference was a big hit last time, and now it's better then ever. If you're wondering about how Agile applies to your daily business, or if you just want to see how it looks when it's done right, you owe it to yourself to check out AgileDotNet on April 30th.
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A Quick Primer on SharePoint Customization
This one goes out to all the people who have been asked to change the way a SharePoint site looks. Management wants to know how long it will take, and you can whip that out by tomorrow, right? If you don't have time to prepare a treatise on what's involved, or if you just want to lend some extra weight to your case by quoting a blogger who was an MVP for seven years, then dive right in; this post is for you.
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Clunky workarounds that work: catching field changes in a SPD workflow (with no custom code)
Yes, you can do this with an Event Receiver. You might be able to do it with a VS workflow, or possibly one of those fancy third-party tools... maybe not. But if you're a SharePoint admin with nothing but SharePoint Designer and you need to determine if a field changed, here's how.
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GAC-blocked: Access denied for assembly _XXXX_
As with most of my blog discoveries, this one was born the hard way: on the ragged slopes of insanity, amid the dying cries of a thousand savage deadlines... much like the fabled Robot al'Thor.
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Quick fixes: Removing the Delete button from a SharePoint 2007 OOTB edit form
I know what you're thinking. "If you don't want them to delete the item, why don't you just create a special permission level without the ability to do that?"
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SharePoint Designer Video: Binding to a SharePoint List via Web Service
This is an often-neglected feature of SPD, which is a shame because it's pretty powerful. The above-linked clip walks through a simple calling of the Lists web service.
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Practical Tweaks: creating a Social Security Number column
Many people find SharePoint to be somewhat limiting in its out-of-the-box functionality, but really, a creative approach can take you pretty far. Say, for example, you need to create a column to hold Social Security numbers (assuming you've worked out all the relevant security issues). You have a field that requires numeric validation, but it has a specific length requirement, which sounds more like string validation. Here's what I came up with off the cuff: