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Top 10 technical questions you should be asking before upgrading your customer to SharePoint 2010
Toni Frankola
A customer emailed me this morning saying: Hey Toni, we want to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the latest SharePoint. Can you send me a quote and we are ready to go… Before doing anything else, you need to ask your customer a few simple questions just to make sure you understand the situation (customer installed WSS 3.0 alone) so that you can make the right assessment. Please note: these are just general questions, in a full-scoped project you need to ask many more… Questions [read].
Posted: 1 day ago.
Updated – Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration
Toni Frankola
We have just updated release of our Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration web part. The solution has been tested and updated for SharePoint 2010 RTM release and we also fixed deployment script for Farm solutions. You can download for FREE with full source code. Click here to send your feedback. Original Post: SharePoint 2010 introduced a new and improved Central Administration which looks awesome. However when I am teaching about SharePoint or presenting it to customer [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10
Retract SharePoint solution from Central Admin with PowerShell
Toni Frankola
I deployed a custom made solution to the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration application. However when I tried to remove the solution and failed from both PowerShell and GUI. The solution remained in the Deployed state. After examining the log files I figured out that SharePoint timer iterates all the web applications except central admin. Here is the PowerShell script to remove a solution that was deployed to Central Admin Application. # check to ensure Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell is lo [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10
Compile and package Sandboxed and Farm solutions using the same code base
Toni Frankola
SharePoint Sandboxed solutions allow site administrators to deploy custom web parts without physical (console) access to the SharePoint server. Sandboxed solutions are easily uploaded via Solutions gallery. Sometimes, while developing a solution, you want to know if your code is running sandboxed or as a normal farm solution. In order to check if the code is running sandboxed or not, you can use the approaches suggested to me by Wictor Wilen and Chris O’Brien. I recently installed Visual S [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 4th '10
Remove all Service Applications from SharePoint 2010 farm with PowerShell
Toni Frankola
Well, sometimes things do not go as planned and you need to undo some things you did in SharePoint testing environment or for a client. As I am currently working on a script to install Service Applications I had a need to remove 10-20 service application from my testing farm automatically. Here is the script that can do that; it will automatically remove all service applications along with associated data. Click here to download the script. ——————— [read].
Posted: Mon, May 31st '10
My slides from SharePoint conference Peru
Toni Frankola
Yes, I spent an amazing week in Peru attending and speaking at SharePoint Conference Peru. After the conference we visited Cusco and Machu Picchu and we all had amazing time. Conference was an amazing success, with more than 170 attending, all sessions were packed and people were very enthusiastic about SharePoint 2010 release. I presented delivered to sessions for the conference and here are my slides: The wonderful world of SharePoint 2010 service apps View more presentations from Toni Franko [read].
Posted: Sun, May 23rd '10
Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration
Toni Frankola
Posts in the "Introduction to SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions" seriesIntroduction to SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions for Site Collection OwnersSearch AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 listsSearch AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration SharePoint 2010 introduced a new and improved Central Administration which looks awesome. However when I am teaching about SharePoint or presenting it to customers I need a quick and easy way to find an option in Central Admin (yeah I know, I am [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10
Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 lists
Toni Frankola
In my previous post I explained how to create an interactive search for SharePoint 2007 lists. It’s time to take things to the next level, so let me introduce Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 list (download). It gives you the same functionality (search as you type) as the previous version but it is created as SandBox solution (check my post Introduction to SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions for Site Collection Owners for details). This solution is free and can be downloaded as WSP o [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions for Site Collection Owners
Toni Frankola
If you have been reading about exciting new features of SharePoint 2010 you probably heard about something called SandBox Solutions. In this post I will try to explain what SandBox Solutions are and how you, as Site Collection Owner / End User / Non Developer type, can benefit from these solutions. In a nutshell, SandBoxed solutions allow you to: Deploy custom code you have developed or downloaded from the Internet Such custom code you deploy cannot jeopardize the stability of your farm Soluti [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10
I’ll be speaking about SharePoint at Microsoft Windays 2010
Toni Frankola
For forth year in a row I’ll be speaking at Microsoft Windays 2010 (April 19th – 23rd 2010.) in city of Rovinj, Croatia. I will have 2 sessions, and my topic for both will be… SharePoint 2010. SharePoint in a SandBox, Wednesday April 21st 2010 -12:10 – 13:00 SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions introduce a crucial change in how you can develop custom applications on top of SharePoint platform. With a number of demos and practical examples this sessions will show you h [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10
Configure Item Level Permissions for Document Libraries – Part 2 – SharePoint 2010 edition
Toni Frankola
Every once in a while your customer might ask you to customize permissions for a document library in such a way that authors can only change their own documents. There was no such feature for document libraries in SharePoint 2007, and the “problem” is still present in v2010. (Both versions support automatic item-level permissions OOTB for other lists like Tasks). In Part 1 of this article I tried to solve the problem for SharePoint 2007 with Workflows, but never found the time to complete it [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10
FREE SharePoint 2010 eMagazine has been published
Toni Frankola
Marianne van Wanrooij asked me to write an article for SharePoint eMagazine. It is a FREE SharePoint publication that can be downloaded here. My article is about Visio Services check it out, there is a number of great articles inside, here is the list: SharePoint 2010 Enterprise – Sjoerd van Lochem Customizing the SharePoint Ribbon - Marianne van Wanrooij Visual Studio Extensions - Niels Loup Working with data in SharePoint Designer 2010- Laura Rogers Sandboxed Solutions – Mirjam van O [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 20th '10
Creating filtered lookups in SharePoint 2010 with InfoPath 2010
Toni Frankola
One of the usual challenges with SharePoint 2007 was to build a lookup field between two lists but also apply a custom filter to the values being displyed. Let’s consider a simple scenario: You have two lists on your site: Projects and Project Tasks. You want to link each task in Project Tasks list with a project in Projects list. This was simple even in v2007, you only had to create a lookup column and you were good to go. But what if you wanted to link tasks with only active Projects ( [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 6th '10
Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is on the Move
Toni Frankola
I am reposting from End User SharePoint. Toni Frankola, Eric Harlan and I have been working over the past few days, putting together the first wave of speakers for Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA. This is turning out to be a pretty spectacular event with presenters from 11 countries, including 6 MVPs. If you haven’t registered for this free, live online event that is scheduled during EMEA timezones, you’re missing out. Yes, I know it’s on a Saturday. Yes, I know, there’s snow and [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 29th '09
Croatian SharePoint User Group goes live!
Toni Frankola
On Dec 10th we had a 1st meeting of Croatian SharePoint User group. I was always under the impression we are too small to have a user group but… I was wrong. :). We had around 120 applications for the first event. We gave an overview presentation on what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for end users, devs and IT Pros. Our next meeting is on Jan 14th 2010, and you are welcomed to join. Visit our site (in Croatian only) and apply for next meeting or download slidedecks. Topics for January: [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 21st '09
Do you need free* SharePoint planning services?
Toni Frankola
If your company is considering implementing SharePoint collaboration platform Microsoft has a free* offering for you: SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). How can you benefit from this program? Well it is easy. If you are currently planning to deploy SharePoint to your organization you can contact a certified SDPS partner to help you plan this engagement. This program can also be activated if you are planning to roll-out some new features (e.g. Enterprise Search) or if you are plannin [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 21st '09
My slides from Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009
Toni Frankola
Last week I spent three very nice days in Murska Sobota, Slovenia, speaking at Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009. It was my pleasure to meet some old frends and many new SharePoint people from the region and worldwide. I am really looking forward to the next edition :)))) Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009 -Best Practices To Boost Your Share Point Implementation View more presentations from tonifrankola. Here are some of the links from my slides: [Book] Don’t Make Me Think! A Commo [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 29th '09
Join us for the first Croatian SharePoint User Group meeting
Toni Frankola
I am so proud to make this announcement… on December 9th 5:30 pm we are organizing the first meeting of Croatian SharePoint User Group. Check our site (in Croatian)… The only topic on our agenda for December 9th is… SharePoint 2010 Overview and what’s new. Hope to see you there… If you would like to speak at one of our future group meetings and combine that with your vacation on our beautiful Croatian coast contact me. Update: Due to an amazing interest we are sold [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 23rd '09
How to: Display Check-in comments
Toni Frankola
Staccee emailed me with the following problem: Can you report off of “Comments” entered when documents are checked in/out? If so, any help on how to get them all? Here is what I am doing: I navigate to a document that needs to be updated. I use the ‘Check Out’ function and then ‘Edit in Microsoft Excel’ function. I make the changes I need and then ‘Check In’ the document. I am prompted at check in to provide ‘Comments’ (it’s not [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 3rd '09
Join us for Live Online SharePoint Saturday - Europe
Toni Frankola
As you probably know SharePoint Saturday events are huge success over SharePoint communities (mostly in USA). There are 10 events just in November 2009, and on November 14h there will be 4 parallel SharePoint Saturdays! As you recall from this blog, we had one in Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark). Europe is bit different and it is not that easy to create a community event on Saturday (especially if it is nice day on Mediterranean). Maybe SharePoint Friday might work? Mark Miller and Isaac Stith were [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 2nd '09
Join us at SharePoint Conference Slovenia
Toni Frankola
On November 27th I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia, one of the first events where you will be able to see SharePoint 2010 live. There is also a preconf day hosted by  SharePoint MVPs where you will be able see new SharePoint in live action. Take advantage of the early bird prices for Slovenian SharePoint Conference on November 27 if you purchase your ticket before Friday November 6. This is your last chance to save 40 € on entry.  The rates will go up after Friday, so regi [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 2nd '09
SharePoint 2010 soon to be revealed (one hour to go)
Toni Frankola
I am in my hotel room in Las Vegas, getting ready to go to the Mandalay Bay Conference center where in one hour from now Steve Ballmer will start his keynote for SharePoint 2009 Conference. (It will be streamed, so if you are not here hook-up to the conference site for live video). We already have a number of events last night like #ShareIndian and #SharePint which were great. I will be attending these sessions today (it was impossible to choose because many good sessions overlap): 9:00 AM - Ke [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09
Search as you type for Links list
Toni Frankola
Two weeks ago Peter emailed me the following question: I am trying to get your PhoneBook search as you type to work with a Links list and have not been able to make the edits that are needed for it to work. Yes, it is possible to customize this solution to work with any list you wish, but you need to tweak the code a bit. I am using very powerful  Javascript API for the SharePoint webservices by Darren Johnstone that allows you to do anything. In order to make this to work you need to customize [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09
Thank you København!
Toni Frankola
As you probably know, I was in Copenhagen, Denmark last weekend. Isaac Stith and Jens Nordgaard organized the first SharePoint Saturday at Copenhagen and it was amazing!!! I really enjoyed the event along with all pre and post-events :-)). It was mine pleasure to meet some of the Europe/world finest SharePoint experts. My Session You can check slide decks from by session here. Best Practices To Boost Your SharePoint Implementation View more presentations from tonifrankola. Other session [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09
Boarding completed!
Toni Frankola
While you are reading this I am probably sitting in an airplane and just heard famous: “boarding completed” announcement from cabin crew. Yes, I am flying across central Europe to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the first SharePoint Saturday in Europe. I am looking forward to meet some of the European SharePoint colleagues/partners, and to present some of mine SharePoint experiences to. I will be speaking about: IT Pro Track: Best scenarios to boost your SharePoint implementation. Your organi [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 21st '09
Use case: PhoneBook Search - no code required
Toni Frankola
In last few years I worked with many clients in different industries. Every company I worked with had one application in common: a centralized phonebook. These apps are usually written by some IT rookie that had a desire to show how good his at “3 letter acronym” technology (ASP, PHP…) Phonebooks are being used when an employee needs to call a coworker on office number or when a receptions wants to inform you that someone is waiting for you in the lobby. In large organizations [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09
Question about your article - Seeting up SharePoint Environment
Toni Frankola
Stan emailed me with few questions about setting up SharePoint Development Environment. I am posting edited version of that conversation here. The post is general and it applies to any SharePoint environment e.g. testing, educational… you might have in your company. In your article “Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 2 - Building a development lab” you say that developer has 64-bit Server on the machine and VPC and develops in VPC. Why do you n [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 17th '09
SharePoint in plain English
Toni Frankola
For a while now I have been enjoying really great videos by Common Craft (@CommonCraft). The company specialized in making small but very useful videos explaining technology (and other) concepts in very simple way. The topic for this week is SharePoint. It is a bit over optimistic (SharePoint is not silver bullet) but it might help a novice user to to understand the key SharePoint concepts. Check it out: SharePoint in Plain English You can check videos on Creative Commons web page. [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th '09
Slovenian SharePoint conference
Toni Frankola
For second year in a row, SharePoint conference will be held in Slovenia. Venue: StarMax, Murska Sobota Date: 27th of November 2009. I am still waiting for the full speakers list but it will include SharePoint technology experts and MVPs from Central Eastern Europe and other countries. Innovate, Communicate and Collaborate with SharePoint community in Slovenia, hope to see you there. Click here http://www.sharepointconference.si for more details. Picture below is from famous lake Bled in S [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 4th '09
KPI Dashboard for WSS: Part 1 - No code required
Toni Frankola
A few weeks ago Chris posted the following problem on Stump the panel: We want to display KPI indicators with each item (green if we met the target, yellow almost, red not even close). I’ve been using Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS.  So I setup different lists for each one, So in financial the target/actual is set to currency. In customer loyalty it’s a number etc. This was working fine until today, when I got to see more of the real data. I learned under financial that the [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 3rd '09
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday, Copenhagen
Toni Frankola
After a number of events in USA, SharePoint Saturday (free community driven event) is flying across oceans (both Atlantic and Pacific). In August it will debut in Europe: Copenhagen, Denmark. I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday, Copenhagen. If you are reading this blog and plan to visit the event I would be happy to see you there. Session Your organization has deployed SharePoint as the ultimate collaboration platform that will solve all your problems in a blin [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09
SharePoint 2010 - Sneak Previews
Toni Frankola
Today, Microsoft released first sneak previews of the new version of SharePoint. Click here to learn more… [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09
Configure Item Level Permissions for Document Libraries
Toni Frankola
A few weeks ago Duncun commented on one of my posts: “Still hunting for the holy grail of a solution that ONLY allows users to view or edit documents they have created themselves.” The problem As you probably know, there is an item-level permissions feature that can be a solution to this problem BUT it’s only available for lists, not Document Libraries. Please remember this before you make a promise you cannot deliver. Figure 1. - Item level permissions on custom list The solution The [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09
Learn Nintex Workflow 2007 with Understanding SharePoint Journal
Toni Frankola
In last few weeks I noticed a lot of posts on Twitter about Nintex Workflow 2007 and SharePoint. All these came from a single user: Bjørn Furuknap (@furuknap). So I followed him for a while and I learned that he wrote a FREE e-book about Nintex Workflow 2007. If you are reading this blog on a regular basis you probably know that I think highly of Nintex Workflow 2007. If you are already using it and you would like to learn more, or just prospecting, take a look at Bjorn’s guide: In this 1 [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 24th '09
A great web part for SharePoint End Users
Toni Frankola
If you ever thought end users on how to use SharePoint you probably noticed they have a problem using all these nice SharePoint menus. I love the SharePoint UI very much, but I am a geek and SharePoint is made by geeks… Average SharePoint user are not geek they are Information workers, and as Mark says: Information Workers don’t care how it all works, they want to know why they should change their existing work habits to accommodate this new way to store their files. That said, you prob [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09
SharePoint Server Fault
Toni Frankola
Back in summer of 2008. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood launched stackoverflow.com, a Q&A community site for programmers. In just few months it became on of the most authoritative sources for programming questions. These guys made a perfect site which is so much better than thos crapy MSDN/Technet forums and other Q&A sites over the web. Great job guys!!! Few weeks ago the second site called serverfault.com launched. It is a community site for IT professionals. Toni, how is this site r [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09
List of built-in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reports
Toni Frankola
From time to ime, when I have to write a specification for CRM system based on top of Microsoft Dyanamics CRM I need a list of build in CRM reports. Althought this list is availabile in CRM I sometimes cannot access CRM instance and I was not able to find it on the web. So here it is: Competitor Win Loss Compare how your sales team performs against competitors. Campaign Comparison Compare two campaigns. Lead Source Effectiveness Compare your lead sources. Activities Display a list of activi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09
Top Blogger Web Part – No code required
Toni Frankola
Laura Rogers posted an interesting business requirement at Stump the Panel of End User SharePoint: Here’s a question that came in from jlschu1: I am trying to create a web part on a SP blog site that will display the top bloggers for that site. There is a large group of people writing posts on one blog site, in one list of posts. I want to show the top bloggers based on their number of posts. Laura solved the problem with SPD workflow which sounds interesting. Laura, I can’t wait to see [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09
This blog was on vacation
Toni Frankola
I haven’t posted in a while. First I have been to Windays 2009 and then to New York City. Although my posts are just a paragraph or two it takes few hours to prepare, test and describe a solution I am writing about. Usually I am writing these around 1 AM. So from time to time I really need vacation. I did “some work” in New York; I had lunch with Mark Miller of End User SharePoint. Mark brought his digital camera and caught me by surprise. :))). Videos are posted on End User S [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09
Dirty secrets of Data View Web Part revealed
Toni Frankola
In last few weeks Laura Rogers has been posting interesting articles about Data View Web Part (DVWP). Check them out here. I know a great deal about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), however Laura taught me something new: Yes, you can use Data View Web Part to pull data from subsites Yes, you can use Data View Web Part to aggregate data from more than one list For [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09
My presentation is currently being showcased on the ‘Technology’ page on SlideShare
Toni Frankola
I just got an email from SlideShare.net Congratulations! Your presentation ‘WinDays 2009 - SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success’ is currently being showcased on the ‘Technology’ page on SlideShare. Hi tonifrankola! Your presentation WinDays 2009 - SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success is currently being showcased on the ‘Technology’ page by our editorial team. It’s likely to remain there for the next 16-20 hours… Cheers, - th [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09
Slide decks: SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success
Toni Frankola
In last two weeks I did not have enough time to post here as I was preparing to deliver a session at Microsoft Windays conference. As I promised here are the slide decks. WinDays 2009 - SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success View more presentations from tonifrankola. The same one in Croatian: WinDays 2009 - SharePoint za krajnje korisnike - Prečacima do uspjeha View more presentations from tonifrankola. [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 26th '09
Use case: Automated knowledge base in SharePoint
Toni Frankola
Scenario Let’s consider the following scenario: Your company is working with a partner. All support requests are being submitted via email. You have a a team of people submitting requests: Furthermore, sometimes you need to include additional people on your side. The communication channels might get even more complicated (the more employees you have working on this, the more complicated it gets :-)). The real problem here is email as communication channel. Email is a great tool, easy to [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 6th '09
Let’s get started with SharePoint Designer!
Toni Frankola
As you probably know, Microsoft decided to make  SharePoint designer is free, and here are some nice articles on how to use SharePoint Designer and some deployment considerations. By Mark Miller and Asif Rehmani at EndUserSharePoint Let’s get started with SharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer 2007 Now Available for Free By SharePointBuzz: Recommendation for all Organizations Remember, with great power comes great responsibility - use SharePoint Designer appropriately within your organ [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09
Slides from my Sharepoint session at IT Pro Users group Croatia
Toni Frankola
Last night I spoke about SharePoint at IT Pro Users group Croatia. We forgot to take photos but I was really happy to see the room full of people eager to learn more about SharePoint. I hope each participant had I chance to to learn something new. You will find my slides below. If there are some questions I forgot to answer yesterday please drop me a line. Introduction To Microsoft Office Share Point 2007 – Planning Installation Configuration And Maintenance View more presentations from Toni F [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09
Deploy Custom JQuery Scripts to the SharePoint Site Collection
Toni Frankola
Introduction to Accordion for Quick Launch Paul Grenier made some really cool JQuery web parts. The one I like most is Accordion for Quick Launch. It is a simple JQuery script that allows users to collapse and expand sections of a SharePoint Quick Launch menu (the latest version even remembers the ones you expanded previously). Deploying Paul’s solution is really easy. You can paste the entire script to the Content Editor Web part, or deploy the pre-packed webpart that does that. Deploying sit [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 27th '09
Use case: Auditing documents on a regular basis
Toni Frankola
At Stump the Panel forum of End User SharePoint Maurice asked: I have a bunch of documents that need to be audited every six months. This their a way that a reminder can be set up to remind the owner of the document that its time to review the document? Laura Rogers suggested the following for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007: If you have MOSS, you can use the information management policy settings in the document library. You can set it to: Modified Date + 6 months. Then, make it kick off a wor [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 26th '09
Speaking at Microsoft Windays 2009
Toni Frankola
For the third year in a row I will deliver a presentation at Microsoft Windays 2009. As usual my topic is SharePoint, and for this year the presentation will be: SharePoint for end users – Shortcuts to success I will present some of the best content from my SharePointUseCases.com and EndUserSharePoint.com articles, including: Planning and organizing SharePoint lab in a virtual environment Organizing a “SharePoint team” Planning your sites with Mind Manager Simple, easy, effective use ca [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09
Speaking about SharePoint at IT Pro Users Group Croatia
Toni Frankola
My colleague Marin Frankovic invited me to speak at IT Pro Users Croatia group meeting on April 2nd 2009. I will be covering a slightly different topic than I usually do. This is a free event, so you are welcomed to join us! Venue: Microsoft Croatia Turinina 3, Zagreb, Croatia April 2nd 2009. at 17:30 Session: Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 – Planning, installation, configuration and maintenance Description: The goal of this lecture is to demonstrate you what SharePoint [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09
Adventures with the “New Folder” Option in a Document Library
Toni Frankola
I just published a new article at EndUserSharePoint.com about custom folder content type and problems related to it. Click here read more. On a project I had to create a custom folder content type. I added it to a document library as a content type (as shown in the figure below). The default folder content type cannot be removed. Unlike a document, it cannot be removed as other document content types. However, there is an option in Advanced Document Library settings which allows you to turn it [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 12th '09
Use case: Integrating lists from different sites
Toni Frankola
We had a SharePoint site that was organized as shown on the following picture. Each project had it’s own site but in each document library we wanted to connect a document with an asset stored in a central site and unique custom list. We could not use Lookup column because we wanted to be able to share data site collection wide. We could not use Site Column because: each Asset had some additional data that was stored to Assets lists we wanted to filter these assets by various criteria B [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 4th '09
SharePoint Blogs
Toni Frankola
Christophe from Path to SharePoint has a nice list of SharePoint Blogs by Technorati Authority, and I am happy to inform you that my blog improved it’s rating a lot in last few months and I would like to thank you all for reading and sharing this blog. Check the full list of SharePoint Blogs by Technorati Authority here… This reminded me that I should publish a list of useful blogs I am reading. And here it is in random order: Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] Arpan Shah’s Blog Share [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 3rd '09



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SharePoint Resources


Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer) by Patrick Tisseghem


Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server MCMS: Working with the Publishing API, Placeholders, Search, Web Services, RSS, and Sharepoint Integration by Lim Mei Ying


Professional Microsoft Search: SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Wrox Professional Guides) by Tom Rizzo


Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Ryan Teeter


SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform by Seth Bates


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step by Penelope Coventry


Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers by Jeff Webb


Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Woodrow W. Windischman


Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer) by Amanda Murphy


Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Olga Londer


Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed by Michael Noel


Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Vanessa L. Williams


The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users by Robert Bogue


The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Bpg-Other) by Olga Londer


SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint by Dux Sy


Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Göran Husman


Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Programmer to Programmer) by John Holliday


Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) by Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion by Bill English


Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wrox Professional Guides) by Jacob J. Sanford


Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by P. Tisseghem


Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer) by Robert Bogue


Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by C. A. Callahan


Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) by Ed Hild


Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other) by Michael Sampson


Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Andrew Connell


Building Web Applications with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by John Jansen


Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible by Vikram Kartik


SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide by James Pyles


Microsoft SharePoint 2003 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Vanessa L. Williams


Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Expert's Voice) by Michael Antonovich


Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007 by David Gerhardt


Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Olga Londer


MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-630 by James Pyles


Inside SharePoint Administration by Steve Caravajal


Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes by Colin Spence


Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Quick Source Guide by Quick Source


Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant by Ben Curry


SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) by Mark Gerow


Essential SharePoint 2007 by Scott Jamison


Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Workflow Programming by Dr. Shahram Khosravi





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