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Agility in SharePoint: Writing Functional Requirements
SharePoint brings more power than ever to the end user. As usual, this is a double-edged sword. Its utility as a development platform is unmatched, but since many of the development tools are accessible from the browser UI, the dividing lines can get...
"The requested operation requires elevation"
Typical SharePoint 2010 install. I had created all my domain users, set up my servers, and started installing the prerequisites. When the first box in the farm restarted and the preparation utility came up, I was asked for credentials and provided them...
Removing the 12:00 timestamp from Calendar View
Occasionally, you have a calendar full of all-day events and you don't want the calendar cluttered up with redundant timestamps. Here's a simple client-side script, suitable for framing (or a master page, or a content editor web part) that will cut down...
Nitpicking that matters: changing default forms on a SharePoint 2007 list
This is a fairly common request, but the solution is often missing one crucial point. To use a custom New/Edit/Display form on your list, proceed as follows: Open your site in SharePoint Designer. Right-click the desired List (under the Lists node) and...
SharePoint Designer workflow workarounds: tracking individual column changes
This post is long overdue, but since the question keeps popping up on various SharePoint discussion lists, I figured I'd document the answer here (next time I can just post a link instead of typing the whole thing out again). In a SPD workflow, you cannot...
Read-only lock on a SharePoint site collection, or Why can't I edit anymore?
Monday morning, the calls started. For some reason, long-time users were unable to edit list items. I figured we had a permissions issue, so I popped in to look at the Site Settings -- and found that I couldn't. A quick trip to Central Administration...
Phone number mask in a DataView WebPart (DVWP)
This came up today on the [sharepointdiscussions] list. A user needed to display a read-only field in a phone number format; it's pretty simple, but it may be just what you need. Assuming your list item contains a field called "Phone Number" (with a space...
Generate a Word document from list data
This came up on a discussion list lately, so I threw together some code to meet the need. In short, a colleague needed to take the results of an InfoPath form survey and give them to the user in Word format. The form data was already in a list item, so...
Simple Pleasures in SP 2010: TryGetList method
How many times has this happened to you? SPSite site = new SPSite("url"); SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(); SPList list = web.Lists["ListName"]; ERROR!!! ...because, of course, that list happens not to exist! Have you ever wished for a better approach than...
FBA and the SSPPP (Shared Service Provider People Picker)
This week, I had to create a few profiles (by hand) for Forms Auth user accounts. Of course, in order to do this, you need to make sure the SSP's People Picker can recognize them. I dutifully added the provider info and the requisite connection string...
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