Today’s screencast from Laura Rogers is a true end-user tip. She quickly demonstrates how to save a file directly from Office programs to SharePoint.
Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint and I co-presented an EUSP Live Online session today, demo-ing dozens of interface enhancements that we will be providing in our EUSP Live Online Workshops, starting next Monday.
His session was done in Arabic, so making it available now is a good warmup for SharePoint Saturday Arabia, coming on March 27, 2010. Also included for download is Marwan Tarek’s session on SharePoint 2010.
The ‘Create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center’ session Christophe Humbert and I delivered at SPTechCon yesterday was a fun session. The recording of our session is available for download if you are interested in watching.
In this screencast, Laura Rogers explains a unique way of using SharePoint content types to function as status levels for list items. This solution does not involve any custom code, and the concept is useful in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010.
Stephen Kim from the Microsoft Advertising Group has put together a video demo of a prototype SharePoint tool for monitoring social media input. This is a show-stopping application if it ever gets to market
How do I create a cascading drop-down box in my SharePoint list? This question is asked a lot. Unfortunately, there is not an out-of-box way to do this in a SharePoint list. In this screencast, you will not only learn what a cascading drop-down box is, but how to easily create one in InfoPath 2007.
When there are no items displayed in a list, SharePoint displays a generic message. How and why do you customize the display text in a data view web part? There are just some cases where this message needs to be customized, so that the text is more specific as to why there are no items displayed. In this example, Laura Rogers shows a SharePoint task list web part that is filtered to only show items assigned to [Me]. Then, she shows how to quickly create a data view web part, with a custom message letting end users know why the web part is empty.
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
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When new items are added to lists and libraries in SharePoint, a cute little icon appears next to each list item for 2 days after the creation date. When a data view web part is created, this icon does not exist by default, so it [...]
So, a requirement popped up to allow the business to store “Contact Us” information in SharePoint and use workflows to manually send emails to the people who submitted the contact information. Very easy.. nothing spectacular. They also wanted the ability to send pre-formatted email templates as responses. Also fairly easy to do creating an SPD workflow for each template, right? Well.. what do you do so that you don’t have to open up SPD every time the user wants to add or modify a template? I came up with the following solution. You could take what I did here and build upon it to make it much more elaborate. I’m sure you could format the emails more professionally. You could auto populate more fields like the subject and signature.
