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SharePoint’s Limits
Ryan Miller
From time to time I find myself needing to know what one of the various limits is in SharePoint. Like today when I needed to know how many currency fields I could add to a list. I found this fantastic post on SharePoint Gadget that details about every imaginable limitation: http://sharepointgadget.blogspot.com/2010/05/limits-in-sharepoint-2010.html [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 2nd '12 |
Windows 8 Resources
Ryan Miller
It seems Michael Crump lit it up again this weekend.
First, he made the list of top 10 WinRT people: http://winrtppl.com/ #8, hmm, it must be a randomized list, no way he’s outside the top 5.
Then he released a free eBook: 10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. – Michael Crump. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 16th '12 |
Anatomy of the Content Query Web Part
Ryan Miller
I know it’s not real content, but I just liked the image below that I created as part of my upcoming presentation entitled “The Stupendous Content Query Web Part.” [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 3rd '12 |
Exporting Survey Responses to Excel only available in Overview
Ryan Miller
I noticed today that the Export to Excel option for survey responses is only available on the ‘Overview’ view.
Not on the Graphical Summary view:
and not on the All Responses view. [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 11th '11 |
Content Query “Slots”
Ryan Miller
Great thanks to the author of this blog post: Inconvenient Content Query Web Part slots and CQWP’s extensibility. I happen to think that the Content Query Web Part has been one of the most powerful features of SharePoint since Microsoft introduced it. I used it a ton in SP 2007 and they’ve added great updates in 2010, but documentation on the new features has been tough to come by. In fact, I didn’t know these things were called ‘Slots’! I’ve been using them with a nagging feelin [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 23rd '11 |
Anyone can design a scalable SharePoint farm.
Ryan Miller
I haven’t always been a SharePoint developer. When I was in college, before I switched to CSE (Computer Science Engineering), I was studying to be a ME (Mechanical Engineer). I was in my sophomore or junior year taking a statics class and my professor said something that I will always remember. Statics, if you don’t know, is the the study of forces on an object while it is at rest. For example if you have a bridge which made up by a bunch of triangular supports and you place a mass ( [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 16th '11 |
Berry Burst Ice Cream Oreos
Ryan Miller
It should be a crime to taste this good. [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 14th '11 |
SharePoint Development Video Center
Ryan Miller
Lot more videos on SharePoint Development:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh298298.aspx [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 5th '11 |
ToDo – Research
Ryan Miller
Sheesh, you know, when your head down delivering solutions for clients it’s tough to make time for research. I find myself now 1/2 way through 2011 with an ever growing ToResearch list.
Here’s my list:
SP2010 Dataview Webpart – As a developer, I’ve done amazing things with this in SP2007. So far in SP2010 I’ve been mostly playing the part of Architect. I need to go back and check out the updates to this web part, which are extensive.
SP2010 Content Query Webpart – I personally th [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 1st '11 |
Nice Sandboxed Solutions Videos
Ryan Miller
I came across these nice little videos on creating Sandboxed Solutions. They’re a quick view and give some great information for beginners.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365trainingcourse_session-2_unit [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 25th '11 |
To Wordpress or Not to Wordpress…
Ryan Miller
Body: I've been thinking about moving this blog over to the Wordpress platform.
Alas, I am torn. On one hand, I am a SharePoint developer and I think there is a lot of value to be learned simply by existing in that ecosystem. Plus the WP platform is new to me so the conversion may be a bit more effort than I'm ready to bite off.
On the other hand, the SP blog engine just isn't that mature. There are a ton of ready-made tools and plug ins available for wordpress blogs. Plus, I'd be spinning it u [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 7th '11 |
Slides Available
Ryan Miller
Body: Thanks to everyone that braved the ice yesterday to attend the 2011 Microsoft Heartland Region SharePoint Conference; especially those that sat in on my developer session. My slides are fairly limited since most of the session was demo, but they are available here: Rapid Application Development with Nintex Workflow 2010
Category: SharePoint
Published: 2/3/2011 12:34 PM [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 3rd '11 |
Usage Reports Gotcha
Ryan Miller
Body: A few weeks ago, I did a post on using the WSS usage reports even though they are hidden when MOSS is installed (The Other Usage Reports). Well, this week I discovered a quirk with them that's worth noting.
The setup:
I have a client that is storing documents in SharePoint. These documents are getting categorized several ways with additional metadata. We are then targeting, filtering, rolling up, and displaying links to these documents on various pages using the Content Query Web Part (CQW [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 15th '10 |
Gotcha - Setting People Fields in Nintex
Ryan Miller
Body: I was working on a question submittal and response tracking system last week and I got stumped with a Nintex workflow failing. There's nothing like a long weekend to clear your head, because I had the solution in a few minutes effort this morning.
Problem Description: A question coming into one list, needs to create a slot for the response tracking in another list. Easy-peasy except that every time I tried to set the "submitter" field in my destination list to the "created by" value in my [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 7th '10 |
Space and Site Quota Strategy
Ryan Miller
Body: I mentioned in a previous post that one of there is a WSS report that gives you very useful information about how the space in your site is allocated, but that you need to enable a site quota for the collection to enable the report. So I thought I'd post up my general strategy for setting site quotas.
Over the long term, I try to keep my databases under about 50GB. That seems to me to be a reasonable size for SQL and STSADM backups. Once they get much above that the duration of the backups [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 1st '10 |
SPS Columbus Wrap-up
Ryan Miller
Body: Thanks again to those of you that attended my session at SharePoint Saturday Columbus. I hope my presentation on Branding SharePoint 2007 with SharePoint Designer was useful.
I've made my slides available on my blog site here:
The slides themselves are somewhat useless without the dialog that went along with them, so I've left my basic script for the presentation in place in the slide notes. Something not in this presentation is the awkward confusion caused by my using the wrong name [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 16th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Columbus
Ryan Miller
Body: I just wrapped up the work on my SharePoint Saturday Columbus presentation. I think it should be a good one. Sheesh it was a lot of work. I think I have close to 50 hours in for a 75 minute presentation. But I think it turned out well and my wife didn't kill me for taking it on.
The presentation is on Branding SharePoint with SharePoint Designer. I'll be talking about whether or not you should use SPD for branding (spoiler alert: you should). I'll then talk about how to brand SP2007 sites [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 13th '10 |
VM Installation Redux
Ryan Miller
Body: If you've been putting off rebuilding a virtual SP 2010 box because it was kind of a pain the first time around, fret not. With the production bits of SP2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2, it's a double click installation. Building a development VM is still a pain, just for the tediousness of installing all that software, but I didn't hit any road blocks. If only real installations were this easy…
Category: SharePoint
Published: 8/4/2010 9:11 PM [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 4th '10 |
Post SP2 Patches
Ryan Miller
Body: Just a reminder that Microsoft is still releases updates for SP 2007. No really. I have a feeling there are a lot of farms out there that have nothing beyond SP2 installed.
Although SP2 was released on 7/29/2009, it contains only the cumulative updates through February, 2009. There have been multiple Cumulative Updates since then, the latest being June 2010. I haven't found a solid list of all of them, but you can check technet for a link to the most recent: http://technet.microsoft.com/e [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 28th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday – Columbus, OH
Ryan Miller
Body: SharePoint Saturday is about a month away here in Columbus. It should be worth your while. There should be a LOT of SP2010 information at the event. I know I put in a couple 2010 topics for consideration and I expect many others dis as well.
If you'd like to speak, you have about a day left to get your topic in for review.
SharePoint Saturday Site: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/columbus/default.aspx
Registration has also begun. There are 147 seats left as of this posting.
Re [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 9th '10 |
CodePlex Updates
Ryan Miller
Body: Woo Hooo! CodePlex servers are being upgraded to TFS 2010. Should be very exciting. Here's the email I just got from them:
CodePlex Project Contributors,
**The information in this e-mail applies to project coordinators and developers that are using TFS with the Team Explorer client. If you are using Mercurial or a Subversion client, then nothing will change for you**
During the upcoming weeks we will be migrating all of the CodePlex TFS projects onto our new TFS 2010 servers. This up [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 6th '10 |
Moving to Office 2010
Ryan Miller
Body: I'm getting ready to install Office 2010 RTM on my working laptop – not on a VM. Since, for the time being, the majority of my support work is done on MOSS, I had to be sure I would still be able to run SharePoint Designer 2007 alongside the 2010 version. And, if you're wondering, yes according to the SharePoint Team Blog, it can be done.
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-new-shell-tour.aspx
A Few Limitations to Call OutEarly on in [read].
Posted: Tue, May 4th '10 |
SQL Server 2008 R2
Ryan Miller
Body: Keep an eye on MSDN and Technet today. According to Mary-Jo Foley, the RTM bits of SQL Server 2008 R2 should be online today.
This is the final part of the SharePoint 2010 tri-vector: SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2.
The bits weren't there this morning when I looked, but assuming they come online today, I'll be building a some brand new developer VMs tonight(and tomorrow, and Wednesday.)
Also, for any Windows Phone 7 developers out there. The Windows Phone deve [read].
Posted: Mon, May 3rd '10 |
Fixing a renamed Title Field
Ryan Miller
Body: We've all seen it. It happens in every implementation once: Somebody with site collection owner rights drills too far down when editing a list and unknowingly renames the Title site column. There are a number of ways of fixing the issue.
Use SP Manager. http://spm.codeplex.com/ with this tool, you can open up your SharePoint farm, drill down to your site collection fields and reset the field back to Title. You need to run this application directly on one of your SharePoint servers, but if [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
Workflow Blogs
Ryan Miller
Body: I've been working on my presentation for the COSPUG Lightning talk next week. I'm going to be talking about SharePoint workflow and my codeplex project (http://wssactivities.codeplex.com) in particular. One of the things I want to talk about is how these solutions will upgrade to SP 2010 and how workflow has changed in SP2010.
Today I happened across these two blog postings from Phil Wicklund at SharePoint Happenings.
http://philwicklund.com/archive/2010/04/06/my-favorite-new-sharepoint-20 [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10 |
Speaking at COSPUG Lightning Talks
Ryan Miller
Body:
*Update*
due to some extreme technical difficulties with the projectors in the room, the Lightning talks are going to be rescheduled for a later COSPUG meeting.
*End Update*
For those in Columbus next week, we should have an interesting meeting at COSPUG (Central Ohio SharePoint User Group). I'll be one of 8 speakers giving short presentations at the meeting. There should be something for everybody. My talk will be about workflow.
The layout of the meeting is this:
Time frame fo [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
Web Service Testing
Ryan Miller
Body: I needed to inspect the xml coming back from a web service yesterday. So I pulled out the old Web Service Studio and fired it up. I hadn't used it in a long time, so I was not too surprised to find that it was failing. After some searching, I came up with this open source tool that seems to work really well: Storm – http://storm.codeplex.com . It just does web services, but there is a for sale version that also does WCF.
Category: Products
Published: 3/25/2010 10:14 AM [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10 |
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