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.

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SharePoint surveys don’t fire a workflow. You can create one, but it will never fire.

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.

SPSetMultiSelectSizes is a function in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services that lets you set the sizes of multi-select picker boxes based on the values they contain. This may sound trivial, but because of the way SharePoint constructs the pickers as compound controls, it’s less straightforward than you might think.

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.

Microsoft is releasing a new Powershell script to allow customers to upload files directly from a file share to a SharePoint document library. In addition, the script will allow files that have metadata to carry that metadata into SharePoint. The script was developed by the group responsible for the Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure and supports both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. If you are not familiar with the File Classification infrastructure, it allows organizations to assign classification metadata to files on a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server.

In similar fashion, the context of SharePoint must be communicated to your users in order for them to adopt it.

So, a recap, we are putting a solution together that will make is easier for the end user to implement your CEWP solution. We are creating an options panel so the end user does not need search your code to change specific variables. So what do we need is as follows:

Training your users on ‘SharePoint 101’ topics is only the first in a multi-step process to get people into the collaboration mindset. After the initial training has occurred, make certain that you have a game plan to train your users to move beyond what they already know about SharePoint. It’s your responsibility to educate them on the power of the tool and show how it can be applied to streamline business processes. After your users have gone through their initial SharePoint training they will generally retain about 35% of what was presented. They will take that 35% and reduce it to the 28% that is more applicable to their needs and may have difficulty moving beyond that 28%.