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Live Case Study: SharePoint Blogs by Technorati Authority  
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Christophe at Path to SharePoint is at it again. This time, he has configured a list to show the Technorati rankings for most of the SharePoint blogs in existance. There is a nice radio button filter on the left side of the page to do a quick search by ranking.
All in all, a beautiful reprise [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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JQuery for Everyone: Total of Time Differences 
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:56p AutoSponge
Problem: Eric commented on my last article and [basically] issued another challenge.
Will this work for time values?
Solution: Same concept as adding money. Grab the values into an array. Use JavaScript and regular expressions to do some math and massage the data.
To see the formula explained and the code snippet, click “Read more.”
The formula:
=(TRUNC([End Time]-[Start Time],0)*24)+TEXT([End [...] [read] Keywords: formula
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JQuery for Everyone: Total Calculated Columns
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:56p AutoSponge
Problem: SharePoint will not perform “Totals” (Settings > Edit View) on a Calculated Column.
Solution: Use jQuery to create an array, do the math with JavaScript, and insert the value in the Totals row.
To use this script, edit your view to use “Totals” on at least one column in your list. Edit the view’s page and [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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A SharePoint Solution Looking for a Problem: The Focused HREF
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Waldek has been playing around with some pretty cool interface stuff. The last article he wrote for EndUserSharePoint.com showed a way to highlight characters on a page as the user was typing. He's come up with another interface trick and we're looking for ideas on how it might be used. [read] Keywords: interface
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Historical Archive of All Articles
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
EndUserSharePoint.com is growing so fast, it’s hard to keep up with all the content. I’ve had people asking for an archive, so I’ve built a quick access, Historical Archive of All Articles page.
There are over 400 articles on the site, with a couple being added every day. I’ll be tweaking the layout a bit, but [...] [read] Keywords: archive
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Simple Site Planning: Get It Right the First Time! 
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 7:57p EndUserSharePoint
I hear it in the middle of every site planning session I’ve ever given, “I wish I would have known this before I built our site!”. Ok, here’s your chance. Next week, I’m giving a live, online, hands-on workshop on simple site planning.
Simple Site Planning will walk you through creating a plan for developing your [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Mind Maps and SharePoint
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 7:57p EndUserSharePoint
It looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Mind Maps are useful when talking about SharePoint.
Every one of my presentations begins with an expandable/contractable map, showing the various pieces of the presentation along with embedded notes and links on each subject. Asif has started to display his “Knowledge Maps” using the new [...] [read] Keywords: notes
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JQuery for Everyone: Manually Resizing Web Parts
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 7:57p AutoSponge
Problem: I would love to have all iframes dynamically resize to fit their contents. However, as JoeD pointed out from my previous article, the browser’s security restricts us to only dynamically resizing iframes from our own server’s domain.
Solution: JQuery UI to the rescue. Resizable allows us to make all of our [...] [read] Keywords: security
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JQuery for Everyone: Dynamically Sizing Excel Web Parts
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 7:57p AutoSponge
Before the holidays, another EndUserSharePoint author, Toni Frankola, challenged me to “…create a script to resize EWA [Excel Web Access] web part automatically to match content inside.” That sounded fun and easy–it wasn’t easy.
Anyone with MOSS Enterprise (Excel Services enabled) can replicate the problem. Create a new site collection with the Collaboration Portal template. In [...] [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements - Mark Miller, EndUserSharePoint.com
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 12:57a EndUserSharePoint
I’ve got a few speaking engagements for January and February that might be of interest if you are close to Virginia Beach, VA or New York City.
January 10th - Virginia Beach, VA
February 4th - New York City
February 21st - New York City
March - Boston (Tentative)
This Saturday, Paul Galvin and I will be in Virginia Beach, [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Exposing the Event content type
Fri, Jan 2nd 2009 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
For some reason, by default the Event content type is not exposed as a parent content type.
This means that it is not available to be used to create children. We handled this problem in the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint workshop last week.
Tim Carlson sent me an update on a different way [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Waldek Mastykarz is now a SharePoint MVP
Fri, Jan 2nd 2009 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Waldek Mastykarz
Congratulations to Waldek for his new role as a SharePoint MVP. Not only has he contributed invaluable content here on this site, he is now getting the recognition he deserves for his other contributions to the SharePoint community.
Again, congratulations Waldek. It is well deserved. — Mark [read] Keywords: community
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Feedback on “Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint” online workshop
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
The December 30th “Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint” online workshop is completed. The participants will be giving feedback here so you can get an idea of how things went. In addition to the workshop itself, they received all of the resources needed to create the solution (hierarchical Mind Map, Step-by-Step Guide for implementing a [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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The Power of Believing
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
My six year old son hammered me daily for a Nintendo DS for Christmas this year. Each morning was like being inside of a live advent calendar, the days slowly ticking off until December 25th. I would get awakened with a plea and a promise… “I’ll never take it out of the house”, “I’ll share [...] [read] Keywords: |
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EndUserSharePoint.com: New ideas for the coming year
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
I’m putting together my thoughts for the coming year and what the main focus should be for EndUserSharePoint.com. Here are a couple things getting my attention at the moment. Any input from you is appreciated.
Statement of Purpose:
EndUserSharePoint.com provides support for the Information Worker who is using SharePoint as one of their main productivity tools. New [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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40+ clients, many documents… what are my options?
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
The question of the day comes from Mick:
“Site Background: small business site hosted on a shared WSS server at FPWEB
Problem Background: “The team” uses an SP teamsite to organize tasks, share a calendar etc. One of their key tasks is to prepare excel/word/pdf reports for 40+ different clients.
It occurred to the team that it [...] [read] Keywords: server
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Calling all Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines… heads up
Mon, Dec 29th 2008 8:01p EndUserSharePoint
I will be presenting “Case Studies in SharePoint (WSS) Dashboards” at the Virginia Beach, VA SharePoint Saturday “get together” on January 10th.
Since I was once stationed at Fort Belvoir, VA, I started thinking about how many military installations are on the East Coast. Every branch of the military is within shouting distance of Virginia. [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
Mon, Dec 29th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Just a reminder… Tuesday (December 30) at 1:00pm EST, I will redeliver the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, live online workshop. The workshop is for site administrators and beginning SharePoint End Users who need to manage multiple calendars.
This is a redelivery of the online workshop that was sold-out in November. If you missed that [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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EndUserSharePoint.com is closing
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
I worked at B&H PhotoVideo for a year, doing special projects; leading a team to coordinate and digitally organize information from 400 vendors, structuring the Payment Card Industry Processing project, setting up a metadata reader to expose the metadata structure of all of the major databases in-house, creating a plan for building a categorization system [...] [read] Keywords: |
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JQuery for Everyone: Fixing the Gantt View
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
This question came in from Stump The Panel:
Does anyone know how to freeze the Title column in Project Task list Gantt chart view?
Since I want to get better using jQuery, and tweaking the UI will be easier than fixing the web part, I went after it.
Instead of freezing the Title column, I decided to drop [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Security Trimming a List View
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Here’s a question that comes up quite a bit. This time, it was on Stump the Panel:
Does anyone know how I can use one SharePoint List but have different site users only access specific views (kinda like security trimming views) The scenario is I am working with some lawyers who should only access data on [...] [read] Keywords: security
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SharePoint Search in Plain English
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Paul Galvin pointed me to an article, ‘Best Bets and Keywords in SharePoint and Search Server - “When it Absolutely, Positively, has to be Found” ‘ at The Sanity Point. Woody has just come on my radar screen because of a screencast he did for Mike Gannotti.
This guy’s writing style is great! Even if you [...] [read] Keywords: server
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JQuery for Everyone: Cleaning Windows Pt2
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
After giving users the power to manipulate a site’s page(s), they will probably expect the site to remember those choices. Cookies give us one tool for managing personal preferences. Since SharePoint already uses cookies, we have some functions we can reuse from init.js and core.js: DeleteCookie(sName), GetCookie(sName), and SetCookie(name, value, path).
SharePoint’s SetCookie function, the one [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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What is Social Bookmarking and why should I care?
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
At the bottom of each article at EndUserSharePoint.com, there are some funky little icons. What are they for? Why would a post be called ‘delicious’ worthy? What’s all this talk about ‘digg’-ing a post? How do people ‘StumbleUpon’ my site? What in the world am I talking about?
Check out this 3 minute screencast from CommonCraft. [...] [read] Keywords: social bookmarking
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Thank You EndUserSharePoint.com Authors
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 8:03p EndUserSharePoint
It’s typical at this time of year to think back over the past twelve months and see how things are going. For me, EndUserSharePoint.com has exceeded all of my expectations: number of people who visit the site each day, number of email subscribers, number of RSS subscriptions, and most important, the number of authors who [...] [read] Keywords: email
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Leveraging SharePoint as a Document Management System
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 8:03p EndUserSharePoint
Daan De Brouckere spoke at the NYC SPUG earlier this month. He has just released an article on using Leveraging SharePoint as a Document Management System. Highlights include:
Document Management Basics
Versioning
Metadata
Security
Workflow
For those trying to wrap their head around how to use SharePoint to manage their document workload, this is a good overview to help you get [...] [read] Keywords: document
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Online Workshop: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 8:03p EndUserSharePoint
There has been a big demand to redeliver the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint Workshop because of rollout schedules in early January. I know this is short notice, but I’d appreciate it if you’d spread the word. Please tell your team or forward this to anyone who might be interested.
Here are the details:
Workshop Name: [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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JQuery for Everyone: Cleaning Windows Pt1
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 8:03p AutoSponge
User: I never use that, can’t you just hide it?
You: Others may need it. I’ll give you check boxes to turn it on and off.
If a user hasn’t asked for it yet, they probably will. Maybe they want more dashboard width, better content real estate in a mobile browser, or a printable page. This may [...] [read] Keywords: mobile
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The Fairy Tale: Users Won’t Tell You What They Need From Your Site
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Your user community is generally interested in two things when they visit your SharePoint site:
“What’s new since I last visited here”, and
“What information does this site contain that will make MY working life easier?”
A site without recent additions or current postings will, on average, be visited three times by a [...] [read] Keywords: community
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Taming the Elusive Calculated Column, Session Two: 500 downloads in 24 hours!
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Congratulations are in order for the publication of Dessie Lunsford’s second eBook: Taming the Elusive Calculated Column, Session Two. There have been over 500 downloads in the past 24 hours. What’s going on here? Are you guys short on Christmas presents or what? You’re making Dessie feel like Santa Claus.
Sincerely, congratulations Dessie on a great [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Trend Reporting Against a SharePoint List
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
A programme manager I work with wanted to view trend information regarding the projects in his portfolio. His problem was that weekly reports were all well and good but with around a dozen projects under his wing he could not readily visualise where projected milestone delivery dates were, in general, getting worse [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt3
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
In part 1, we added some nifty icons to external links. However, because we only compared the anchor’s server name to the local server name, bad links still look good. By using Simon Willison’s json-head application, we can add file size calculations like our internal links and display a “file not found” message [...] [read] Keywords: application
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KPIs for the Masses: A Dashboard based upon a date-time field
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
In my the first two articles of this series, Visual Indicators for the Masses and Embed KPIs as a List View, I discussed ways to create simple KPIs in WSS. This article will show how to make calculations on top of date-time fields.
Calculated fields do not update themselves until the [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Improving the SharePoint print experience
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
The ability to print web pages has been available for years. Comparing it to the transition that most browsers have gone through, there is very little that has changed about how web pages are printed.
While moving the digital version of a page to its paper equivalent, important information is not accessible to the print [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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KPIs for the Masses: Embed KPIs as a list view
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
In my first post of this series, I discussed using the Data View Web Part to show visually attractive KPIs in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). In this article I am going to present an additional scenario for creating KPIs with a Data View. [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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What is an RSS Feed and why should I care?
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
What’s an RSS Feed and why should I care? You want me to twitter you… isn’t that against the law to do in public? Wiki, blog, social bookmarking, phishing… what the hell is all this stuff.
CommonCraft, Explanations in Plain English is a tremendous resource if you are trying to wrap your head around some of [...] [read] Keywords: social bookmarking
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JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt2
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 7:59p AutoSponge
Do you like the ease of the OOB List View Web Parts but hate the way it displays file size? Yeah, me too. I’d like to see the file size in either KB or MB right next to the file and only for client application files (like .pdf, doc., and .xls).
Let’s [...] [read] Keywords: application
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Anyone want a bargain price on an old book?
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
As I was working on the article for Michael Sampson’s book, I checked into Amazon to grab the cover image. While there, I checked in on how my book was doing: VoiceXML - 10 Projects to Voice Enable Your Web Site. To my shock and amazement, it has become a collector’s item!
The lowest price you’ll [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Seamless Teamwork: Tell us why you need a copy…
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Michael Sampson wants to know why you need a copy of his book, Seamless Teamwork. I’m curious too. Make us laugh, make us cry, bake a cake or offer us a seat in the Senate. Do whatever it takes, but convince us to send you a book.
This is a quickie. Michael will select the winning [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Free, downloadable eBook: The Calculated Column, Session Two - Text and Data
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Dessie has completed his second installment of the Taming the Elusive Calcuated Column series. We have wrapped it up as a downloadable eBook that will be made available through the Weekly Newsletter sent out this evening, Tuesday.
This comprehensive eBook covers the functions available when manipulating text and data in the SharePoint calculated column.
Look for the [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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And the winners are…
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
The votes are in, the results are tallied and the winners of the SharePoint for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy are:
Joy (50%)
“My biggest project management problem is I have guys with 20-30 years of experience and they are used to doing things in a folder directory structure on a file share and they are [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt1
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
We had a request from Ari in our last installment of JQuery for Everyone! Ari wants to know how to add fancy “this is an external link” icons to his page. Since that was basically written for me by Karl Swedberg at Learning jQuery, I decided to take it up a notch (using some AJAX [...] [read] Keywords: ajax
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Seamless Teamwork:
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
There are two books I’ve used over the past 25 years when I want to do a quick refresher on business structure and business management: The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and The E-Myth by Michael Gerber. These books, although old in bookshelf time, are still as relevant today as the first day I picked them [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Why Can’t I Easily Port SharePoint Designer Workflow Solutions From One List to Another? Part 2
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Porting a Simple SharePoint Designer Workflow One List to Another
Overview
This tutorial style article describes how to port a SharePoint Designer workflow from one list to another. It assumes a business case where we want to move a dead simple workflow from a development environment to a production [...] [read] Keywords: designer
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt9
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
If you use the Content Editor Web Part to embed JavaScript on your SharePoint pages, you run the risk of someone with edit rights wiping out your scripts. I will present some strategies for preventing that. Since some of these techniques could lock everyone out, we also need to review the exit strategy.
Protect the Code
As [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Serving media files from SharePoint
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Yesterday, before the online demo for the ‘Quote of the Day Web Part’ officially started, Dick asked me a question about serving up media files in SharePoint. Here’s his question:
I enjoy your webinars and straightforward talk. We discussed a media server yesterday prior to the webinar. You told me that it would be good if [...] [read] Keywords: document
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt8
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Conditional Scripts
Sometimes you only want scripts to load for certain users. Adding Audience Targeting to your custom Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) helps by wrapping your script with SharePoint security trimming.
Divide and Conquer
For example, let’s say I have a very long form used by several departments. Department A only fills in 3 of the 5 [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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JQuery for Everyone: HTML Calculated Column
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Christophe, at Path to SharePoint, created one of the most important scripts for quickly and easily punching up the List View and List Form web parts, the HTML Calculated Column. His creative uses for this mashup of data and HTML always inspires me.
Thats why I wanted to rewrite his script for jQuery (you still need to make sure your [...] [read] Keywords: mashup
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SharePoint Saturday - Killer content, free to the public
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 11:56a EndUserSharePoint
Michael Lotter is developing a concept I really like: a free, day long SharePoint Community Event, SharePoint Saturday. The first one is in Virginia Beach, VA on January 10 where I will be speaking along with Joel Oleson, Todd Bleeker, Paul Galvin, Becky Isserman, Dux Raymond Sy and over a dozen other presenters.
That sounds pretty [...] [read] Keywords: community
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It’s the little things that count
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Last week at the New York City SharePoint User Group (NYC SPUG), Janelle Razzino gave a door prize of a $100 lottery ticket for a trip for two to the SuperBowl… private jet, limousine, hotel, the full works.
Genelle’s excitement was contagious. She said she didn’t really know much about SharePoint but attended the meetings because [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Final days for Project Management survey and book giveaway
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
The doors are about to close on the book giveaway for Dux’ SharePoint for Project Management book.
We’ve had over 100 responses so far. Take two minutes and give us your feedback. The most popular topics win an autographed copy of Dux’ book, plus we are looking at implementing solutions for some of the problem statements. [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Case Study - KM and Training Repository for a Global Bank - Part 1
Wed, Dec 10th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
This article is the first in a five part series by Michael Hinckley, Instructor at Citibank, describing how SharePoint was implemented as a Knowledge Management and Training Repository.
The agenda for the entire series includes:
Part1: The Setup
Introduction & Business Needs
Constraints
Initial Assessment & Proposal
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JQuery for Everyone: Print (Any) Web Part
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Back in August, I worked on a script to print web parts to answer a question from Stump the Panel. However, my script was not dynamic enough to adjust to the web parts on the page and create the “print this” links on the fly–I had no good ideas to tackle that problem.
The more I [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
SharePoint comes with really cool web parts for presenting key performance indicators, but these are only available in the Enterprise edition. If you are running Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Server Standard, it is not available. Which SharePoint technology is right for you?
In this article I will create the same KPIs as Mark did in [...] [read] Keywords: enterprise
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SharePoint Usability Study: Time to fess up
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Hey, anybody want a free gift from Microsoft? Sure you do. This just came into my inbox from Microsoft this morning.
Request for Participants
Do you use SharePoint on a daily basis? Tell us about it!
Microsoft’s User Research Group is conducting series of studies for SharePoint products and technologies and is looking for feedback from individuals who [...] [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Problems with ‘Edit in Datasheet’ with WSS
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Tip o’ the hat to Paul Ruston of LinkSoftware in the UK for this:
“One of the features that can be sorely missed when using WSS is the ‘Edit in Datasheet’ if the client doesn’t have Office installed. Telling the client they are going to have to purchase x number licenses is not really an option. [...] [read] Keywords: office
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New Tool for Evaluating Your Site: Now you can’t say you didn’t know
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
As someone who has followed this site for a while, you might know that I have an obsession with Joel Oleson… a healthy one, mind you, but you have to find your inspiration and goal somewhere.
Along that line, I have found a new online tool that does a live, dynamic analysis of a web [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Is there a limit to the number of questions in a SharePoint survey?
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
The question of the day comes from Red Gloves in Stump the Panel:
Is there a limit to the number of a kind of question you can put into a Sharepoint Survey? That was the message I received when I was inputting a series of Yes/No questions. If so, this instrument will not work for the [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt7
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 7:57p AutoSponge
Use the Tools You Have
Sometimes, the amount of script SharePoint loads staggers me. We can only hope that the recent announcent that Microsoft plans to adopt jQuery will help reduce SharePoint’s script overhead in future releases. But Itay Shakury recently pointed out a bit of script that it seems even Microsoft engineers had forgotten about.
JSRequest
Back [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Why Can’t I Easily Port SharePoint Designer Workflow Solutions From One List to Another? Part 1
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 7:57p EndUserSharePoint
Every first-time SharePoint Designer workflow author faces this problem:
Design a workflow solution.
Create a new workflow solution.
Test it.
Gain user acceptance and sign off.
At this point, everything is going swimmingly until it’s time to …
5. Move to production … full stop.
Today, there is no End User friendly way to move a functioning SharePoint Designer workflow solution from [...] [read] Keywords: designer
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Paying Projection Money to the Big Bad Wolf of Paper Documents
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Monday Morning Fairy Tale: Paying Projection Money to the Big Bad Wolf of Paper Documents
Long a source of intimidation in the neighborhood, Wolf was known to be brash, mean and not a little bit unpleasant. His walks through the downtown business district caused everyone to run for cover. He was bad…real bad….Dirty Harry Bad.
On this [...] [read] Keywords: document
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10 Minute Quickies: Image Rotator Web Part and Quote of the Day Web Part
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I’m going to give a set of free quickie workshops… 10 to 15 minutes each, to test out a few presentation platforms. If you’d like to take a chance and spend 10 minutes with me, I’d appreciate the feedback.
To be guaranteed a seat to one of the tests, click the links [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Downloadable eBook: Taming the Elusive Calculated Column, Session Two
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Heads up!
The next EndUserSharePoint.com newsletter will include a free, downloadable eBook by Dessie Lunsford: Taming the Elusive Calculated Column, Session Two. Dessie has been working on documenting all of the available functions for use in calculated columns. This will be an invaluable resource as you start trying to ‘tame’ the content in your lists and [...] [read] Keywords: |
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SharePoint for Project Mangement: Book giveaway
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
We’re ready to start giving out the books from the SharePoint for Project Management giveaway. Go to the survey form and give us feedback on the most important topics for you. At the end of next week, December 12, we will close down the survey, tally the results and announce the winners of the books.
Dux [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards - The Sequel
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
While attending Daan DeBrouckere’s talk on Content Types at the NYC SPUG meeting on Wednesday night, I met Michael Jonesen and Ken Thorkelin from Email-Manager.com. They will be sponsoring the food for my presentation on February 4th at SPUG.
My presentation will be Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards, the one that had over 550 registrations [...] [read] Keywords: email
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt6
Thu, Dec 4th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Be A Mad Scientist JavaScript Developer
Looking over the last two articles in this series, parts 4 and 5, some ideas may have popped into your head.
“If I use the web service to get data then use that to pre-populate a form or manipulate page elements, I can make some awesome functionality.”
I call this the [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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JQuery for Everyone: Accordion Left Nav
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Last night, I set out on a mission; a mission to create an accordion-style left navigation menu for my WSS test site. Mission complete. If you can copy/paste, you can see it in action. Since I used Google’s API to load jQuery, you don’t even need to download the library file.
First, look at your left nav. [...] [read] Keywords: google
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Managing calendar columns in SharePoint
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Paul Galvin sent me a note this morning on an article he found on calendar views. It’s from the SharePoint Solutions Team Blog.
I’ve seen a lot of questions in the past month related to calendars and how to customize the columns. This article, Understanding Calendar Columns in a SharePoint List Calendar View, might be [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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How can I manage media file types in SharePoint?
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 7:55p EndUserSharePoint
The question of the day comes from Amila on Stump the Panel:
I need the users to be able to view video clips in MOSS. The clips will be saved in a doc library. What are the options available?
[There is] no standard [file type], they have different video files recorded in different ways (digi camera, [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Gone fishing…
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Thanksgiving is tomorrow here in the States, so we’ll be taking a little time off to be with the family. Have a safe turkey day and we’ll see you back in a few.
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt5
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
When I first installed SharePoint, I was amazed with the many ways I could access data (your mileage may vary depending on licensing options): user interface, web services, SharePoint Services API, RSS, email alerts, workflows, Business Data Catalog, Excel Services, Stssync protocol (Outlook Integration), Stsadm command line, T-SQL (unsupported), and RPC/URL protocols (owssvr.dll). [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Feedback on the Basics of Content Types, Online Workshop
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
As people complete the hands-on project from the Basics of Content Types Workshop, they will use this post for feedback on the workshop. All comments are directly from the participants and not edited.
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EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Text and Data (Part VI)
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 7:59p Dessie Lunsford
Overview
In this article, we’re going to be covering the last 4 functions in the "Text and Data" set of formulas for SharePoint.
The four functions we’ll be discussing are:
DOLLAR - Converts a given number into text with it represented in a "Currency Format" and having it’s decimals rounded to a specified place. [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Fairy Tales in SharePoint Land: The Mean Old Project Sponsor
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Once upon a time, in the Land of Unrealistic Expectations, there lived a mean old Project Sponsor. This Project Sponsor was known throughout all the land as being the meanest, most pedantic project owner that ever lived….a fact made all the more difficult given that this particular Project Sponsor was the Queen of the Land. [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Final call for Basics of Content Types online workshop
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
I’m in the process of setting up Tuesday’s workshop, The Basics of Content Types. If you are going to attend, please register now so I can get your sandbox setup for tomorrow.
Thanks. — Mark
Workshop Description
The Basics of Content Types in SharePoint 2007 is a live, online, hands-on workshop showing how to utilize Content Types [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Bedtime Stories with Content Types
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 12:56a EndUserSharePoint
Telling stories is as old as fire. That’s how things get passed down through generations. Entire cultural histories exist through spoken language stories.
Have you ever heard of the Iliad and the Odessy? Yep, I thought so. Pretty good story, I’d say. There was another story about a Trojan Horse that got me pretty excited [...] [read] Keywords: |
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Workshop Next Week: A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
Just a quick reminder, if you are planning on attending next week’s Beginner’s Guide to Content Types online workshop, it’s time to register!
I know everyone had an exciting day at Joel’s party yesterday, but it’s time to get back to work now. Congratulations, Joel, on a HUGE success.
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What is Web 2.0?
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p AutoSponge
If you’re having a hard time selling your organization on why you need SharePoint or what Web 2.0 can do for your organization, a brief history of Internet technologies can’t hurt.
The Machine is Us/ing Us [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt4
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p AutoSponge
Remember in part 3 when I said that frameworks can help you develop faster? Since jQuery in SharePoint is the hot topic right now, I’ll compare an old standby script in poj (Plain Old JavaScript) against a new jQuery version.
Soon after people started using SharePoint 2007, the SharePoint Designer Team blogged about Using Javascript to [...] [read] Keywords: designer
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jQuery and SharePoint: Take Two
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p EndUserSharePoint
In addition to the articles on jQuery and SharePoint that Waldek and I have worked on, Jan Tielens is also working on some fun stuff. If you have a little bit of developer’s blood in you, Jan’s article “Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery[Part One]” takes you through implementing jQuery at the server level.
There’s a lot [...] [read] Keywords: server
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SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types, Oh My!
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
Written by Microsoft MVP Bob Mixon
Mixon Consulting
MasteringSharePoint.com
Recent Articles
A note from Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com
Recently, the topic of folders vs libraries started to show up on Stump the Panel and in my email inbox. I started to sketch out an article, but about five minutes into it, I said “What the hell are [...] [read] Keywords: consulting
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jQuery and SharePoint - Free “Search on this Page” web parts
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
As a follow up to Waldek’s article on Monday, “Search on this Page using jQuery”, I have created drag-and-drop web part components to create a searchable highlighting functionality within a SharePoint page. The solution is done with Content Editor Web Parts so you won’t have to have server access to use it.
The web parts shown [...] [read] Keywords: server
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What are the most valuable subjects for beginning users of SharePoint?
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
I am putting together the schedule for live online workshops that will run from January - March, 2009. I’m looking for your input on what you see as the most valuable subjects, the ones that will help you the most in your day-to-day work with SharePoint.
Here’s the short list so far.
Site Planning - [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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“Search on this Page” using jQuery
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
This article by guest author Waldek Mastykarz, describes how to use the free javascript library, jQuery, to create specialized search capabilities on large web pages.
A followup article will demonstrate how to implement Waldek’s solution in SharePoint using a SharePoint library and the Content Editor Web Part.
Overview
Every modern browser provides the ability to search for [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt3
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 7:53p AutoSponge
I see four levels of JavaScript problem-solving. Your approach will depend on some of the factors we discussed in part 1. If we agree that JavaScript is a hammer (a very useful tool in many but not all situations), we must also determine at which strength to employ our hammer. Hammering too hard or too [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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A ‘Licensed’ Wiki in SharePoint
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 4:56p EndUserSharePoint
There are all kinds of ‘licenses’ associated with SharePoint. Have you ever heard of a ‘licensed wiki’? I thought not. Check this out and let me know what you think: The Licensed Wiki
I thought this was a pretty novel way to display many items when each could have multiple images and user generated content.
SharePoint to [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Who has approval rights on a list or library?
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
The question of the day comes from Jennifer at Stump the Panel:
When Content Approval is enabled for a doc. library or list who is considered the Approver? Is it possible to change the Approver?
Here’s a direct quote from the ‘Help’ menu in SharePoint:
“When this content approval setting is applied, an item or file that [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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2008-11-12 Wednesday ScreenCast for SharePoint End Users
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Today’s screencast is very short, with only two recommendations, but both are outstanding.
Michael on the Go - AdHoc Corporate Training Needs And Solutions
Mike at Michael Gannotti blog
Mike is a mad man. If you like to see people driving around in their car making videos of themselves talking about SharePoint, this is the man for you. [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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The Basics of Content Types: A Beginner’s Primer
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Yesterday’s workshop, Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, used Content Types to help drive exposure of specific events for pseudo sub-calendars. As much as anything else, many people in the workshop were fascinated with the possibilities of using Content Types to manage information structures.
I’m going to publish a series of articles over the next two [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Feedback on ‘Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint’ workshop
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
The participants of the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint workshop will use this area to give comments and feedback on today’s live, online session.
If you missed today’s session, another one will be running in January/Februrary along with
Foundations in SharePoint - Lists and Libraries
Building Dashboards in SharePoint
Conditional Workflow with SharePoint Designer
For the most current [...] [read] Keywords: designer
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Sold Out: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Thank you to all who registered.
Tomorrow’s online session, Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, is sold out. If you’d like to be placed on the notification list for the next time this workshop runs online, leave me a comment below or subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter.
I have had several requests for access to the material [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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2008-11-10 Monday Tips for SharePoint End Users
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
It’s Monday, November 10th and here’s your daily dose of SharePoint for End Users…
Using PivotTables to Analyze Data From a SharePoint List
Diego Oppenheimer at Microsoft Excel
So simple, but not so obvious. If you understand basic Pivot Tables in Excel, this step-by-step walk through will be indispensible when setting up connections to SharePoint lists. Five stars!
So [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Don’t let your ancient corporate policies limit the ROI of your MOSS investment
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Paul on Stump the Panel had a quick exchange with Nancy last week that I thought would be of interest to those who are trying to balance legacy policies against the new functionality of SharePoint.
Nancy’s response to Paul: Do I have your permission to embroider this on a pillow? “Don’t let your ancient corporate policies [...] [read] Keywords: policies
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High Priority, Deal Breaking Issues
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
When working on a project, is everything a ‘deal breaker’ that must be done right now? For the person requesting the scope change or addition to the spec, it probably feels that way, but in reality, for the general well being of the project, it probably isn’t. High Priority issues are real deal breakers: [...] [read] Keywords: |
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2008-11-07 Friday Tips for SharePoint End Users
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Let’s head for the weekend with three quick hits: Bill English on Findability, a new search engine called PDFGeni for finding SharePoint files, and Marwan Tarek on how to use a mind map to help plan your information architecture.
Please mouse over the five star rating system above to let me know if you found these [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Online Workshop: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
There are only 6 tickets left for next Tuesday’s live online workshop, Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint. If you have been looking for a solution to aggregating calendars, this might be a solution for you. View the demo and then proceed to the workshop description and registration if you like what you see. [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt2
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
In Part 1 of this series, you decided JavaScript will suit your needs. But if you want to work with JavaScript, you’ll need the proper gear.
Browser(s): Depending on your users, you may need several browsers for testing. Even more difficult, you may need multiple versions of those browsers. If you only need to test [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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EndUserSharePoint.com: Why we don’t answer server administration questions
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
On my way to teach in New Hampshire this week, I stopped in Hartford to have lunch with Paul Genier, moderator of Stump the Panel. While talking, I realized the questions I asked Paul were probably of interest to the people participating in the forum. I whipped out my CoolPix camera and did some impromptu [...] [read] Keywords: administration
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Creating a Web part that displays the most recent posts on a SharePoint blog
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:56p EndUserSharePoint
Guest Author: Brian Granowitz
SharePoint End User Content team
Microsoft Corp.
Please rate this article by mousing over the five stars at the top.
It’s common for people to come to a blog, scan the page, and then move on if nothing catches their eye. If you have a list of recent posts near the top the blog, it [...] [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt1
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:56p AutoSponge
Adding JavaScript to your SharePoint toolbox? When can we use JavaScript to fulfill user requirements? When should we avoid it?
I find it simpler to identify scenarios where JavaScript makes a poor tool.
Data manipulation: manipulating data really belongs to workflow. Javascript can change the data in form fields prior to a [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Tweet With Workflow
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:53p AutoSponge
Create a Twitter account.
Create a Twittermail account.
Create custom workflows with SharePoint Designer that send information to Twittermail.
Now follow your workflow’s Tweets to know what’s going on! [read] Keywords: designer
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Online SharePoint Study Group
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
I met with Paul Grenier this weekend to discuss what else we could be doing to help End Users in their SharePoint development. All of us at school found it helpful to have a ’study partner’ at one time or another, so I started thinking about how we could do this online.
I want to form [...] [read] Keywords: development
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2008-11-05 Today’s Tips for SharePoint End Users
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 11:53a EndUserSharePoint
Today’s installment finds two the the SharePoint Masters, Joel Oleson and Bob Mixon, holding court on Information Architecture and email management. Add a little check in / check out to the mix, and you’ve got a sweet set of articles.
Please mouse over the five star rating system above to let me know if you [...] [read] Keywords: email
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2008-11-04 Today’s Tips for SharePoint End Users
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:54p EndUserSharePoint
After reviewing 135 SharePoint posts today, I found these that might be of interest to SharePoint End Users. Please mouse over the five star rating system above to let me know if you found these references useful.
Today’s Tips
I’ll take Categories for 100: Categories in SharePoint Blogs
Toni at Get the ‘Point
Blogs are useful in so many [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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46 Project Management Ideas in SharePoint
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
The books are here, the ideas have been generated. Now it’s time to do the hard work: select the five best entries.
The SharePoint Project Management book giveaway has generated 46 ideas on the types of problems people are having with project management. Dux and I are in the process of reviewing the entries. As soon [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Keep going, keep your head down… I’ll walk point and do the grunt work.
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 7:53p EndUserSharePoint
I subscribe to over 75 blogs, trying to cull the wheat from the chaff, looking for SharePoint End User tidbits. I usually have to wade through 50 to 100 post before finding something an End User with no programming skills or server access can use.
I’ve decided to start a series, pointing to the interesting End [...] [read] Keywords: server
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Learning styles, behavioural styles and “collaboration”
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 11:52a EndUserSharePoint
Paul Culmsee
CleverWorkArounds.com
When I was taking my “Train the trainer” course at the Australian Institute of Management, we participated in an experiment. We answered a questionnaire and based on our answers were separated into four groups.
It turned out that these groups were separated based on our most dominant Honey and Mumford learning style.
For those of you [...] [read] Keywords: collaboration
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EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Text and Data (Part V)
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 6:53a Dessie Lunsford
Overview
Last time, we looked at 3 functions for formatting the case of text (working with uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as the “Proper” format of first letter capitalized only in a word).
In this article, we’re going to look at a few more tools we have in the “Text and Data” set of functions that [...] [read] Keywords: |
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What’s on your SharePoint bookshelf?
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:53a EndUserSharePoint
Notice all the copies of SharePoint for Project Management? You know what they’re for, right?
There’s one missing from here, though: The Shepherd’s Guide to SharePoint 2007. Sorry Rob, I couldn’t find a way to insert an eBook onto my shelf.
What else is everyone finding useful?
Update: Rob sent me his bookshelf. Looks like he’s heavily vested [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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Two Days Left to Get Your Free ‘SharePoint for Project Management’ Book
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:53a EndUserSharePoint
I met with Dux this morning to pickup the ‘SharePoint for Project Management‘ books that we will be giving away to the people with the most interesting problems and ideas on how to use SharePoint for project management.
If you haven’t placed your entry, consider doing it now. Deadline for entries is Friday night at mid-night, [...] [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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EndUserSharePoint.com ScreenCast - Limit the item count in a web part display
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 6:53a EndUserSharePoint
Sometimes it’s the little things that get people excited.
I was giving an online workshop last night when the response screen started to go crazy. I couldn’t figure out what was the big deal until people responded that they never knew you could limit the number of items displayed in a web part.
Like I said, it’s [...] [read] Keywords: |
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EndUserSharePoint.com: Server down on Wednesday Morning
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 12:53a EndUserSharePoint
For those of you who hit the site this morning, you probably got a 500 server error. Something was up with the hosting service. I had them reboot and everything seems to be working again.
For the 4000+ of you who received the Weekly Newsletter this morning, all the links are working now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Mark
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