The out of the box available User Tasks Web Part allows you to show tasks assigned to the current user. This Web Part is a great building block for end users since it doesn’t require any configuration whatsoever.

Once the jQuery tools, the required CSS files (available from their site) and the arrow images are downloaded into our SharePoint Scripting Resource Center we’re ready to get started.

My client is moving a large amount of forms from Lotus Notes to MOSS and InfoPath 2007 and I was tasked with designing a search solution that would make it simple to for users to find the forms they were looking for.

My client is moving a large amount of forms from Lotus Notes to MOSS and InfoPath 2007 and I was tasked with designing a search solution that would make it simple to for users to find the forms they were looking for.

My goal was to start providing a library of useful XSL templates for people to use in Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) or Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs) in SharePoint.

The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a pretty powerful beast. It allows you to do multiple site queries and aggregate the results.

Starting out with the “SharePoint’s Default Web Parts” series, I picked the most basic parts that users select to build out their sites. The first four web parts we’ll explore are the Content Editor Web Part, Content Query Web Part, Query String (URL) Web Part and RSS Viewer Web Part.

One of the many decisions users experience with SharePoint is to decide which of the various types of web parts should be used, how to configure the web part for what is needed or deciding to create a customized web part to accomplish what is needed.

Sometimes with SharePoint you will find yourself in a Chicken and Egg situation! Many SharePoint specialists consider it a best practice to use many site collections in there environments than to have one big site collection. Each site collection can be assigned its own content database and therefore makes backup and restoration of SharePoint data more efficient than try to back up one huge database. This can however cause you other problems such as isolated content types, and difficulty to roll up data from lists and libraries that are distributed through multiple site collections.

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