APAC SharePoint Conference Day 2
A brief overview of the sessions I attended on the second day of the Asia Pacific SharePoint Conference (the first day was strategy day). Continue reading APAC SharePoint Conference Day 2 »
SharePoint APAC Conference
Earlier this week I attended the Asia Pacific SharePoint conference in Sydney. I learnt how to play craps (and some SharePoint stuff), met many interesting people and even made it to the beach. Continue reading SharePoint APAC Conference »
Enhanced SharePoint Blog Edition
I’m pleased to report that the project to develop an enhanced blog edition for SharePoint is now underway. We had our first meeting this morning and it looks like this will be a great project to be involved in. On the feature list are items such as tag clouds, trackbacks, pingbacks, CAPTCHA integration, and some great looking master pages. Continue reading Enhanced SharePoint Blog Edition »
Customising the RichHtmlField Styles Menu
This post shows how you can customise the list of styles that are available inside a RichHtmlField control in SharePoint 2007. Continue reading Customising the RichHtmlField Styles Menu »
Minimal SharePoint Master Page
Master pages provide a great platform for branding custom SharePoint sites. By default, however, the master pages included with WSS and MOSS sites include a lot of unnecessary mark-up. This worked fine for most of the site but I found when I used this for the system pages (think viewing document libraries, editing list items…) things started to break. Continue reading Minimal SharePoint Master Page »
Programatically Populating a Document Library
Every now and then I want to populate a SharePoint document library with files for testing purposes. To do this I have created a little console app that will take a template file and upload it x number of times to a document library, generating a unique name each time. At the moment this is a very basic application, but if you need to generate dummy data then it provides a starting place for doing so. Continue reading Programatically Populating a Document Library »
Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint
The guys at WSSSearch.com have got a cool little collection of tagging web parts that allow you to create tag clouds for lists in your site. The basic idea is that you add a tag column to your list, then use the tag cloud web part to display a cloud containing using the tags entered against all the list items. Continue reading Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint »
Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 List Definition
There are several steps involved in creating a custom list definition in SharePoint 2007. These are: reate custom site columns (Optional), create custom content types (Optional), create custom list definition. Continue reading Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 List Definition »
Data View Web Part Introduction
This post shows how you can use the DataView web part (aka the DataFormWebPart) to display a list of items from another SharePoint 2007 site using SharePoint designer. Continue reading Data View Web Part Introduction »
Invalid look-up value error when uploading content
When migrating content from a prototype MOSS intranet to the new production environment I hoped to be able to move documents across using the windows explorer view of document libraries provided by SharePoint 2007. Unfortunately for most of the items this resulted in a helpful little warning stating “An error occurred copying some or all of the selected files.” Continue reading Invalid look-up value error when uploading content »
