For folks very new to SharePoint—and possibly HTML, I wanted to share a quick tip sending a link to a SharePoint item via email.
I was watching the twitter flow this morning and @rharbridge pointed to a solution that will stop IE8 from prompting people when using SharePoint.
From @rharbridge: “Showed more people today how to get around IE prompting when working with SharePoint: http://is.gd/5gWa2 {Useful tip not well known?}”
Dan Usher, @usher, immedately got back to him with this set [...]
More searching didn’t turn up any other solutions. I tried various vbscript/excel functions in the calculated field to no avail. Then I started thinking clientside. I figured that if I could identify the fields in the list display, I should be able to manipulate them with jQuery. A quick search turned up a nice little piece of code by Paul Grenier on EndUserSharePoint.com. He has written a series entitled jQuery for Everyone and one of his articles was on Replacing [Today]. In his article, Paul talks about replacing a DateTime field with an Aging calculation. His article calculates a DateTime from the last modification date.
One of the most asked questions I get from End Users about SharePoint is “How do I remove the connection from Outlook?” This is usually requested because they are receiving an excessive number of authentication prompts in Outlook due to not having their machine configured correctly or some other bug. In most cases, the prompting should end once they add the site to the Trusted Sites, allow IE to pass authentication, and setup the WebClient in the registry. Note: At my organization, we also have an installer that will do all of that for you. If that is too much and they just have to have it removed, here are the steps.
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).
As we were going through the process of customizing a template for our SharePoint intranet, one question kept popping up. How do I make an item on the template go away?
I was seeing what I could do to create pages a little more useful than you get using vanilla SharePoint without having to crack open Visual Studio. One of the things I wanted to do was display a SharePoint list on the screen and add a filter to the screen that would allow a user to filter the list with a date field value greater than or equal to whatever a user entered. Sound’s simple right?
I’m pretty sure every SharePoint enthusiast has seen those great Sneak Peek videos Microsoft released some time ago. And I’m sure that lots of the new features shown were very exciting for lots of you. Since SharePoint 2010 is still quite far away in the future, let’s try to bring some of the 2010 stuff to SharePoint 2007! In the overview video, Tom Rizzo showed some new user interface functionality, pretty much all of it was heavily using asynchronous Javascript code to dynamically do updates, change layouts etc. All of this of course to prevent those nasty full page reloads. One of the features that caught my eye was the inline editing of list items or documents: without reloading the page, or opening a new page, it’s possible in SharePoint 2010 to edit meta data. Pretty cool! And I want to have it in my SharePoint sites, today.
The problem seems to have been an adobe plugin, “Air” or their flash plugin – I don’t really know what it’s called or care all that much. It turns out that it’s not compatible with a 64 bit environment (which is *totally* reasonable; it’s not like 64 bit is the kind of thing that anyone except ***crazy*** companies want to support or anything). I tried to uninstall it but that experiment only lasted about 15 minutes. It turns out that a ridiculous number of sites are using flash tech (I may be the last one to realize this on the planet). So, I can’t live without it and I can’t use IE8 64 bit.
You have now connected a SharePoint filter to a single workbook that contains multiple worksheets with multiple pivot tables and are driving all of the pivot table filters with one single filter from the SharePoint Dashboard.
