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Wrangling interesting InfoPath 2003 vs 2007 issues with arcane XPath statements
We have a form at work where the XPath current() function isn’t working properly. It’s supposed to be essentially a pointer to your current execution context, so in InfoPath in general it’s great for finding your way sort of recursively up and out of your current context to sibling controls (for harvesting lookup values, etc.).…
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Creating and Administering Site Themes in SPS2003/WSS 2.0
This is probably more for posterity than anything else, as most folks should have been using SharePoint 2003 technologies for almost a year. But my work site uses 2003 still, with an upgrade coming up in the next few months. Recently I had to fix some site-wide site templates that had some issues with unghosted…
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Interesting tidbit for getting your VPC-borne development environments to run properly
This tip from Kevin Kelly (not of kevinkelly.org, btw, but my co-worker – Hi Kev!). Anyhow, if, like us, you need to do your development in a single-server installation that’s network-isolated (either SPS2003 or MOSS2007), you may have found that there are some issues when you install and try to use some SharePoint/Visual Studio features.…
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MOSS 2007 Site Definitions Links
Am now doing research on how to make Site Definitions for MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. The main reason to do this, is as far as I can now determine (this may change) still the same reason you made one for SPS 2003. You can use Site Templates (which are entirely different animals) within any particular top…
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Workflow dev in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0
I’m doing research into developing “simple” workflows in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. This is mostly a linkdump post, but I wanted to say that the “simple” workflow I have to work with (publishing documents from a private workspace/subsite to a public parent site, seemingly cannot be accomplished with SharePoint Designer 2007, which seems to be limited…
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Site Definition and Themes Customization Research Links
I’m doing some research into Site Definitions and Themes in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. My goal: Determine how similar or different the mechanisms are from SPS 2003/WSS 2.0. Answer: looks pretty similar! Develop new custom site definitions and create upgrade definition files (Office SharePoint Server) Deploy upgrade definition files and new site definitions [Office SharePoint Server]…
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Links
I’m doing research today to answer multiple questions. Questions: I recreated my MOSS 2007 SSP a while back and now MySite creations aren’t working for anyone. It’s not working exactly like the discussion at Technet Forums. Still researching this one. On a related note, I need to nail down exactly how to create personalized MySite…
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Simple read-write connection of a database table (non-SharePoint) to a DataView Web Part in MOSS 2007
Test this out/play with it in a test area. Don’t do this in production. Duh. Required: SQL Server 2005 SharePoint v3 (I don’t honestly know, but I think just WSS 3.0 w/o MOSS 2007) SharePoint Designer 2007 A SQL account with db_datareader and db_datawriter permissions on the database in question, and the account’s password A…
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Web Part Packager – Link Salad
I went looking for a Web Part Packager install walkthrough with screenshots that a co-worker might find useful, but was unsuccessful. I did however find a bunch of links I wanted to save for myself. So if you don’t know about the Web Part Packager and you’re running SharePoint 2003 and developing/deploying web parts, learn…