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Forum Discussion: Enforcing Best Practices Compliance in Non-Trivial MOSS Environment

A fellow, "Mark", has started up a potentially interesting newsgroup discussion focusing on "establishing excellent SharePoint Governance from the start" for a 35,000 user environment. The discussion is here: http://groups.google.com/gr…

Custom Action URL Won’t Display for New Feature

I’m still in the habit of crafting my feature XML files by hand since it’s all quite new to me. I don’t want to rely on a front-end tool that does stuff I don’t understand (he said as he wrote a blog entry using a tool he does…

Blog Stats

I thought some people might be interested in my blog’s statistics. You can use mine as a benchmark to compare your own. I’m running my blog on windows live spaces. They collect stats for me and I don’t know any way to control that…

Create a custom context menu in SharePoint list or Document library

The context menu is the drop down menu displayed when a document library item or a list item is selected. This menu is executed with the help of a JavaScript file located in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\1…

"One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these field" error from SPQuery

When using SPQuery often one might often encounter this error. This errror is caused because the field that you are refrencing in your CAML query is repersented differently internally. This can be because either you renamed a column or another site col…

Sunday Morning Funny: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah.”

About six years ago, my four-year-old son and I were upstairs watching a Discovery channel "shark attacks" special (possibly this one). He was very young at the point and I was always worried what he might see on a show like this and how he m…

Switch View View Based on User ID In An InfoPath Form

We had a developed an InfoPath form with multiple views to support a new hire / on-boarding process. When the company hires a new person, the IT department and other groups need to take action (set up payroll, enable access to appropriate application…

Accidentally Adding Code to an InfoPath Form; Deliberately Removing It

When working with buttons on a form, we often add rules. You access the rules editor from the properties of the button. When clicking around quickly, it’s easy to accidentally click on "Edit Form Code" instead of "Rules …"…

Minimum Security Required For InfoPath Forms

I needed to meet a security requirement for an InfoPath form today. In this business situation, a relatively small number of individuals are allowed to create a new InfoPath form and a much wider audience are allowed to edit it. (This is new-hire o…

That “In-Between” Feeling; Observations on SharePoint Consulting

Sadly, phase one of my last project has come to a close and the client has opted to move ahead by themselves on phase two. We did our job too well, as usual I’m now between projects, a special time for staff consultants like myself (as oppo…