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Modifying Search Box
Susan Henry
Body: If you'd like to modify the search box in a WSS site, change the background color, size, etc. there are a few options you have to do so. Using just the CSS you can change a few things to customize...
Category: CSS Tricks; SharePoint Branding
Published: 12/22/2008 2:21 PM
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Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
SharePoint Branding Inspiration
Susan Henry
Body: There is a great site out there, WSSDemo.com, which is run by Ian Morrish and provides a comprehensive list of many public-facing SharePoint sites. If you haven’t checked this out and you are considering...
Category: Resources; SharePoint Branding
Published: 9/7/2009 3:03 PM
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Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
Neat Find: Visio Stencils for SharePoint
Susan Henry
Body: So, recently I needed to create a process flowchart for a reservation system built on top of SharePoint. Being the perfectionist that I am, I really wanted to find some Visio stencils or shapes that...
Category: Resources; Tips & Tricks
Published: 10/19/2009 2:46 PM
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Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on Windows 7
Susan Henry
Body: Today I set out to install SharePoint Server 2010 on my local machine running Windows 7 Professional. This was one of the things I was most looking forward to about 2010, being able to develop locally...
Category: SharePoint 2010; Administration
Published: 11/17/2009 1:35 PM
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Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
Add the path for stsadm.exe
Susan Henry
Body: Paste this into your command line, hit enter and now the path to the 12 hive bin folder will be added. Now you can run stsadm.exe commands...
Category: Administration; Tips & Tricks
Published: 6/22/2009 1:23 PM [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
Creating a Content Type Inheriting from Event
Susan Henry
Body: If you need to create a content type that inherits from the “Event” content type, you will notice that OOTB it’s not listed in the List Content Types group. That’s because it is in the _Hidden group and in order to use it you will have to be sneaky enough to move it out of there! So, in order to do this you’ll need to go to a Calendar on your site and go to the Settings page. From there you need to turn on Content Type Management in the Advanced Settings. Once you’ve selecte [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
Neat Find: Visio Stencils for SharePoint
Susan Henry
Body: So, recently I needed to create a process flowchart for a reservation system built on top of SharePoint. Being the perfectionist that I am, I really wanted to find some Visio stencils or shapes that represented the SharePoint objects I was referring to in my flowchart. There was nothing in Visio 2007 that came close and I really didn’t want to create anything myself, so I started digging. I came across quite a few downloads on the Microsoft site that had some neat shapes I could use, bu [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
New SharePoint 2010 Stuff @ Microsoft.com
Susan Henry
Body: Today, on day 1 of SP Conference a TON of new SharePoint 2010 content is being released all over the web. It will be hard to keep up with it all, but just wanted to share some of the stuff I’ve found this morning. On the Microsoft Download Center there are lots of new diagrams and articles that have been released today. Check out this list below and check back for more as I find them. I particularly enjoyed the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide, which is a great overview [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint Branding Hands-On Lab
Susan Henry
Body:
At Carolina Code Camp this weekend in Charlotte, NC I presented a hands-on lab on SharePoint Branding. You can download the PDF of the lab manual here and check it out.
Download the Lab Manual
Tags: Designer
Published: 10/10/2009 12:44 PM [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 10th '09 |
SharePoint Branding Inspiration
Susan Henry
Body: There is a great site out there, WSSDemo.com, which is run by Ian Morrish and provides a comprehensive list of many public-facing SharePoint sites. If you haven’t checked this out and you are considering branding a SharePoint site, you should do so ASAP. I think it’s really important to find inspiration and explore what’s possible when it comes to web design of any kind. For SharePoint Designers this is even more crucial because too often you will approach a branding project from wit [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 7th '09 |
SharePoint Branding Inspiration
Susan Henry
Body: There is a great site out there, WSSDemo.com, which is run by Ian Morrish and provides a comprehensive list of many public-facing SharePoint sites. If you haven’t checked this out and you are considering branding a SharePoint site, you should do so ASAP. I think it’s really important to find inspiration and explore what’s possible when it comes to web design of any kind. For SharePoint Designers this is even more crucial because too often you will approach a branding project from wit [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 7th '09 |
Channel 9 – SharePoint Development Videos
Susan Henry
Body: If you haven’t checked out Channel 9 before, you should. It’s a great resource with developer focused video content and they have tons of SharePoint-centric videos on the site. I’ve found some great stuff on the site, like Ted Pattison’s video on how to configure Forms Based Authentication with WSS 3.0: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/In+the+Office/Anonymous-Access-and-Forms-Authentication-with-WSS-30/ Take a look on the site and check out all the great SharePoint tagged videos they [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 6th '09 |
Uncustomized vs Customized Pages in SharePoint
Susan Henry
Body: In SharePoint 2003 the concept of Ghosting and Unghosting described what happened to your files when they were modified or customized. With SharePoint 2007 that terminology and the process by which customizations are handled has changed drastically. Instead SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 are built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and use the Virtual Page Parser. Thus, the process has changed and so has the name. With the next version of SharePoint right around the corner it’s probably a good idea to u [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
GhostBusted, Uncustomized vs Customized Files
Susan Henry
Body: In SharePoint 2003 the concept of Ghosting and Unghosting described what happened to your files when they were modified or customized. With SharePoint 2007 that terminology and the process by which customizations are handled has changed drastically. Instead SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 are built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and use the Virtual Page Parser. Thus, the process has changed and so has the name. With the next version of SharePoint right around the corner it’s probably a good idea to u [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
Connecting to a Windows Internal Database
Susan Henry
Body: Recently I had a client who was making the move from WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 and wanted to migrate their intranet site collection to the new server. When I took a look at the WSS 3.0 server I realized that they had originally performed the Basic Installation, which is a single-server option that installs SQL Server Express Embedded Edition on the same box. The Basic install is generally one you’ll want to avoid for various reasons, but basically it limits your ability to scale-out at a late [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
My First, Short, Branding Presentation at CASPUG
Susan Henry
Body: Tonight at the Charlotte Area SharePoint User Group I did a brief presentation about SharePoint branding. Earlier this year the user group held a contest for “Best Looking SharePoint Site” and my entry was a runner-up, so Samantha Ferrie asked me if I’d be willing to give a 15 minute presentation on the site I had entered in the contest. For this particular client I had to come up with some a rounded corner design for the web part chrome and a similar styling for the quick launch. I [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 15th '09 |
Creating a SharePoint Theme or Customizing One
Susan Henry
Body: There’s great MSDN documentation on how to do this, so I’m not going to rehash what’s already out there. I’m really just going to show you this in action, so check out this link or Dan Lewis’ blog to get the verbiage, for my purposes I just want to show you screenshots… MSDN: How to: Customize Themes Dan Lewis’ Blog Post: Creating a Custom Theme for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 What I plan on doing is taking the customizations to the Top Navigation and Quick Launch I made in previo [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 10th '09 |
Hiding Themes on your SharePoint Server
Susan Henry
Body: Let’s say you are running a corporate intranet using SharePoint and you’ve got a standard for all the sites that will be created. The team has decided upon a “look” and want all the sites to follow suit and stick to these standards. This is fairly common, so typically the need arises to lockdown those extra themes that you DON’T want your users to apply. The good news is that themes are pretty simple in SharePoint. They are stored in the 12 Hive under TEMPLATE and each theme h [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 10th '09 |
Leveraging a Lookup Column
Susan Henry
Body: Let's say you have a list of Customers on your top-level site within your site collection and then a Project list on a subweb (AKA subsite) for a specific department. If you wanted to create a lookup column in your Projects Document Library that will pull the Title field from the Customers list, you CAN'T! You can't because that Customers list is on the top-leve site and from the Projects site you cannot see it... Or can you??? You can if you use site columns or a content type. A lo [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
SharePoint Branding: Use CSS to Transform Top Nav
Susan Henry
Body: In my last two posts I talked about how you can use CSS to easily customize the look and feel of your Quick Launch. The great thing about using CSS to make these changes is that you’re merely attaching your custom CSS files to the original Master Page, not unghosting anything. This is good news for those of you want to or have to avoid modifying the OOTB master page and core.css. Unghosting means that you’re taking the original master page and CSS that were stored on the web server it [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 8th '09 |
SharePoint Branding: Quick Launch Quick Fixes Pt. 2
Susan Henry
Body: In the second part of my Quick Launch branding series I’m going to add some more CSS to strip out the OOTB quick launch styles and add my own styles. You can do a lot using just CSS to rebrand a SharePoint site and keep the functionality intact. A lot of people want to redesign the navigation, but don’t want to lose the ability to manage navigation links through the UI as a site owner. This presents a challenge for designers and developers because they need to find a happy medium betwe [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
SharePoint Branding: Quick Launch Quick Fixes Pt. 1
Susan Henry
Body: There are a lot of ways to easily alter the look and feel of your SharePoint site’s quick launch. In this post I’m going to highlight a few of the simple fixes that you can use to change the way it looks OOTB. Some of the most common changes I make are… Changing the color of the bullet Removing the shading/Changing the background colors Changing the font color, style, size etc… Hiding View All Site Content or the Recycle Bin Changing the Bullet Style If you want to change the bull [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
What version of SharePoint am I running??
Susan Henry
Body: On twitter the other day someone asked how they would go about finding out the version of SharePoint they are working with. A flood of responses came in because there are several ways to do this, it just depends on what level of access you have for the site, server, etc. Here’s an easy way to tell the version as long as you have access to the settings.aspx page. You can go to Site Settings and see the Version listed there under the Site Information heading at the top, like so… This [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
Display Random Tips & Tricks in a Web Part
Susan Henry
Body:
I was asked by a customer if it was possible to take a list of MS Office Tips & Tricks and display a random tip on the homepage of their SharePoint portal every time a user hits/refreshes the page. I had seen something similar at the End User SharePoint site. They have a couple posts that show you how to use a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) with some jQuery to do just that for a "Quote of the Day" web part.
Essentially, what I'm looking for is the same thing, so I basically le [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Simple Spam Blocker for your SharePoint blog...
Susan Henry
Body: I got this tip from Mike Gannotti (AKA SharePoint Samurai) at the SharePoint Saturday Charlotte event this past weekend and it is an awesomely simple fix for spam comments on a SharePoint blog.
Thanks Mike for sharing this easy fix, because honestly when you're pressed for time, quick fixes are pure gold... Speaking of gold, I was really tired of getting comments from someone trying to sell me gold watches! :P
Ok, so here's it is...
Add a Single line of text column to your [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Enable Detailed Error Messages
Susan Henry
Body: If you want to see more detail about the errors that occur in your web app you need to enable this by editing the web.config file for your web application. This file is located in the following location… C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\## (where ## is the port number where your web app lives) You want to open up the web.config that lives inside this folder using notepad, NOT WordPad!! Edit web.config and make one of the following changes: 1. Find tag and look for: [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
Add the path for stsadm.exe
Susan Henry
Body: Paste this into your command line, hit enter and now the path to the 12 hive bin folder will be added. Now you can run stsadm.exe commands from the command line directly, without having to navigate to the 12\bin every time… @set PATH=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN;%PATH%
Published: 6/22/2009 3:37 PM [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
IE6: The butt of all Web Design Jokes
Susan Henry
Body:
I saw this post today that made me laugh and think back to the days when I was none the wiser. I'm talking about this awesomely funny and cute cartoon by John Martz (RobotJohnny.com) about IE6, the ugly duckling of the browser bunch.
It makes me laugh now because after spending the past two years working in web design, specifically SharePoint web design more recently, I've come to loathe this browser. The sad part is a lot of your clients are STILL using it!!! So, that means ex [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
In-Browser Tricks
Susan Henry
Body: Lately I’ve been working on finding as many customizations and enhancements that can be made to SharePoint sites through the browser, using CEWPs or other tricks. A lot of companies put their SP environment on lock-down and try to discourage employees from customizing the OOTB sites with SP Designer. There are a lot of reasons why this is necessary in certain environments, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t find some workarounds to spice up your site. There are a lot of blogs out t [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 14th '09 |
Problems Uninstalling SharePoint
Susan Henry
Body: During the course of building out my SharePoint VM for development purposes I’ve found the need to recalculate my course here and there. This meant I needed to uninstall SharePoint Server 2007, but it turned out that this was easier said than done. When I attempted to uninstall through Add/Remove Programs the installer would just quit. There was no message to explain why, but it never started the uninstall process. Of course I looked through the error logs and saw some of the clues as to [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
Error When Starting Services on SharePoint VM
Susan Henry
Body: If you get either of the following errors when trying to start a service on your SharePoint VM server there’s a pretty straightforward reason why… - An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator) - SPSearch (Administrator) This is simply because SharePoint expects a user name in domain\user format. If you’re running a VM using local accounts, for development or testing, you might find yourself entering the account name without [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
Hiding and Moving the View All Site Content Link
Susan Henry
Body: Sometimes, whether you're creating a public site that will enable anonymous access to visitors, or you're creating a site internal to an organization, you may want to hide the View All Site Content (VASC) link. This link sits in the quick launch and gives users access to a page listing all the content within your SharePoint site. It's an easy enough task, but there are quite a few ways to accomplish the same thing. The link itself is part of a Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl in the ma [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09 |
VMware Server bridging debacle
Susan Henry
Body: This post is actually about VMware, but since many SharePoint peeps out there have to create virtual machines to setup a development/test environment, it’s still relevant… Basically, I show a little bit of favoritism towards VMware for a few reasons. First, it’s a pretty slick platform and I prefer it over Virtual PC or Virtual Server. Second, the forums are AWESOME. If you ever get stuck with something the people on the VMware forums probably have an answer for you. These peeps are [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
Error Activating Publishing Features in MOSS
Susan Henry
Body: The other day I created a new web app on our SharePoint Server and ran into this little snafu that really threw me for a loop. I created a new site collection using the Team Site as the site template and when I went into the site to activate the publishing infrastructure I got the error you see below. There was no way to activate this from within the browser, so instead I went on a mission to find out if anyone else had encountered this bug. Sure enough there are a few posts out there th [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 9th '09 |
MOSS Search Web Part Mods
Susan Henry
Body:
In MOSS the Advanced Search page is actually built on a search web part that is generated via an XML file. The XML file contains all the elements that will be displayed on the page such as the choice of languages, the choices in the drop-down menus, etc. Let's say you don't want the options for French, Spanish, etc. to display b/c your entire site is built and populated with only English content.
Well, if you want to remove or add any elements to that webpart all you need to do is op [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 6th '09 |
Workflow Catch 22 when Versioning is Turned On
Susan Henry
Body:
Recently I encountered a frustrating situation when working with a document library on a MOSS Publishing Site. I had created a workflow that would tag my documents with a status pulled from another list. Everything checked out and I deployed my workflow to the site, but found that every time I uploaded a new doc or tried to start this workflow it would fail. It was giving me an error because I had neglected to set Require Check Out to "No". When this setting is turned on a workflow will [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 6th '09 |
Using Data Form Web Parts
Susan Henry
Body:
The Maramech Hill District of the Boy Scouts of America created a WSS 3.0 site to enable committee members to collaborate and actively participate in the district's website. When they created the site, they wanted the ability to merge events from each of the calendars into one central calendar. They had created sub sites for the different areas; Activities, Camping, Training, etc. Each of these sub sites had its own calendar that they could then add as a web part to the pages of that sub [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 6th '09 |
The SharePoint Grind...
Susan Henry
Body: There is a wealth of SharePoint knowledge in the blogosphere. I know because I've relied upon blogs to help me work through some of the toughest roadblocks I've encountered with SharePoint, from the simple tasks to the complex problems. What started as my first job out of college has become all-consuming and I've found myself addicted to journeying down the many rabbit holes that SharePoint has to offer. I've had to do a lot of this on my own, using the online community as my sole support [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 6th '09 |
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