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MOSS KPI bug? List Indicator Tied to Document Library With Folders

UPDATE 02/29/08: I solved this problem by creating a folder and then assigning a content type to the folder which has the meta data I need for the KPIs. I described that in a little more detail here. We have implemented a technical solution wher…

SPD Workflow “Collect Data From A User”: Modify the Generated Task Form

I’m working on a project that uses five different SharePoint Designer work flows to handle some document approvals. SPD provides the "collect data from a user" action so that we can prompt the user for different bits of information, suc…

Are “Unknown Error” Messages Really Better Than a Stack Trace?

I was reading Madhur’s blog post on how to enable stack trace displays and now I’m wondering: why don’t we always show a stack trace? Who came up with that rule and why do we follow it? End users will know something is wrong in either…

Default Groups and permission levels in MOSS 2007

The out of the box SharePoint Groups created and the permission levels for each of the group is explained in the following segment The Limited Access permission level will provide access to specific list, document library or an item or a document in a …

Sunday (Embarrassing) Funny: “My Name is Paul Galvin”

A bunch of years ago, my boss asked me to train some users on a product called Results. Results is an end user reporting tool. It’s roughly analogous to SQL Server Reporting Service or Crystal. At the time, it was designed to run on green t…

Perspectives: SharePoint vs. the Large Hadron Collider

Due to some oddball United Airlines flights I took in the mid 90′s, I somehow ended up with an offer to transform "unused miles" into about a dozen free magazine subscriptions. That is how I ended up subscribing to Scientific American m…

Evil Microsoft URL

I do a Google search: I click on the link highlighted above ("Download details: Windows SharePoint…"). I get this: Note the URL. Looks pretty suspicious to me. I don’t know if I should laugh, chuckle or call a priest. </…

Quick Impression: System Center Capacity Planner for SharePoint

I just fired up the capacity planning tool that’s all the rage these days. I found it easy to use and quickly modeled a client environment I worked on this past summer. With some trepidation, I pressed the final OK button and it recommended so…

Solution: System.IO.FileNotFoundException on “SPSite = new SPSite(url)”

UPDATE: I posted this question to MSDN here (http://forums.microsoft.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2808543&SiteID=1&mode=1) and Michael Washam of Microsoft responded with a concise answer. I created a web service to act as a BDC-friend…

Solution (sort of): Set Priority on a Task Using SharePoint Designer

I have a business scenario like this: A user uploads a document to a document library. She selects a content type and enters meta data as needed. One of the meta data fields is a flag, "Urgent". This triggers a SharePoint Designer workflow tha…