SharePoint 2007 provides the ability to view the profile of people within an organization and also to view a very basic organizational chart listing peers and subordinates. I recently researched the options available for displaying a more advanced organizational chart and found there are several third-party web parts that provide this functionality for a fee, [...]
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I am often asked to customize the layout of a page within a SharePoint site as a “one-off” change (one that affects only that page and not the entire SharePoint site). This is typically a request to hide something on the page or to change the attributes of a font on a page, such as [...]
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Most SharePoint administrators and developers are aware of the techniques for customizing the master page for a SharePoint site, so I am not going to go into detail on this topic. However, I do want to share with you any easy technique I found for customizing the administrative pages on a SharePoint using the application.master [...]
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Most SharePoint administrators and developers are aware of the techniques for customizing the master page for a SharePoint site, so I am not going to go into detail on this topic. However, I do want to share with you any easy technique I found for customizing the administrative pages on a SharePoint using the application.master [...]
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Recently I was faced with this customer situation: “Replace my existing web site with a SharePoint 2007 site AND handle all the existing links to my site gracefully”. Basically the customer asked me to build them a new public facing web site and asked that their existing page links (those in search engines, other web [...]
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If you are using SharePoint to build a pubic facing web site and you’d like your site to indexed (sometimes called crawled in SharePoint speak) by the popular Internet search engines (Google, Live Search, Yahoo, etc) you’ll want to pay particular attention to this article. By provide two XML files named sitemap.xml and sitemap_index.xml at [...]
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Many of you may know that I’m a huge fan and user of Virtual PC and Virtual Server for development purposes, specifically SharePoint development. Both Virtual PC and Virtual Server are Microsoft Products and both are free to use and provide big advantages when developing solutions for SharePoint 2007. When a server instance has been [...]
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If you’ve ever tried to quickly determine the version of SharePoint 2007 that is installed on a server, this post is for you. I’ve often thought that Microsoft should have displayed the SharePoint version on Central Administration under Operations, Servers in Farm. However, they did not do this and you must examine the properties of [...]
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One of the limiting factors in using the default forms (NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx) is that there is no obvious way to hide columns from appearing in the form. By default all columns in a list or document library will appear in your forms. After doing quite a bit of research on this I found a fairly [...]
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If you’ve ever tried to customize the branding of a MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 site you’ve probably discovered that SharePoint application pages (pages that physically reside in the /_layouts folder on the file system) share a common master page and thus share the same style sheets. Said another way; unlike SharePoint site collections and [...]
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