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One of the cool things about not being a total moron in SharePoint anymore is that I actually have the ability to help people. I’m always happy to lend a hand when I can, and it’s actually a great way for me to learn even more. However, sometimes it can be hard for me to give the proper advice/help because I don’t exactly know what a person is asking. There are so many different parameters that can affect any advice you get in SharePoint and it’s really hard for someone to be in your head. Sometimes it can take several back and forth emails just to fully understand the question being asked. So, I thought I’d type up a quick blog which will help you ask your questions more succinctly and make sure you get the best advice/help possible (not necessarily from me).

When we first started our SharePoint development efforts we had a requirement to write an application to track issues and projects as well as log time against them. All of our development had to be Out of the Box because of the development constraints with Custom development and well, because at the time we didn’t really know what we were doing. However, a couple of things came out of this development effort which I think will actually come in handy. One of these was creating a Parent / Child relationship between lists so that we could track hours for a project or issue.

I also reject the “it’s already been done” argument. So what if it was? The terrible consequence is that people who are looking up your topic via bing will now find two or five or a dozen articles. Who cares? I always prefer to find several articles on the same topic when I go searching the tubes for stuff. Different points of view, different writing styles, different approaches to the same problem – they all help me understand what I need. In my opinion, the community is no where close to reaching a saturation point on good quality blog articles on any topic in the SharePoint world.

Joel Oleson has published an article on dealing with SharePoint spam comments. If you have a public facing site with a SharePoint blog receiving comments, this is a must read. The last time I checked, my comment spam blocker on this site caught over 40,000 pieces of junk.

Laura Rogers posted an interesting business requirement at Stump the Panel of End User SharePoint: Laura solved the problem with SPD workflow which sounds interesting. Laura, I can’t wait to see it. I took a different path and created a „non-code“ required web part to solve this.

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