Written by: Ross Beurmann
Introduction This blog will show how to add the custom fields to the MetaData Properties in Central Admin as well as adding them to the Advanced Search page. It will also detail how to add the advanced search button to your site’s search box. This will allow for your customers/clients to search on the fields …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
It has been an extremely busy couple of months, since I have been back from the Seattle SharePoint Conference. And man, it has been a while since I posted anything. At the Seattle SharePoint Conference, there were many presentations on BI Solutions. These BI Solution presentations spanned across a wide variety of topics, however, they …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
This is a great post by the SharePoint Designer Team on using javascript to manipulate a list form field: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/06/13/using-javascript-to-manipulate-a-list-form-field.aspx
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
This is a great technical white paper, even for developers, since it provides an overview on Enterprise Search. If you are looking for code, this is not necessarily what you would like, however, if you are looking for a features and architecture, this is a good start. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/deployingsearchtwp.mspx
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog posted a very good white paper that talks about SharePoit performance of a very large lists. Greate read. White Paper: Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excerpt: There is documented guidance for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 regarding the maximum size of lists and …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
SharePoint Workflow introduction http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx Create a workflow in SharePoint designer http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005911033.aspx SharePoint Workflows http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb421687.aspx Create a simple workflow http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006-8-SharePoint_2007__Creating_a_simple_non-human_Worfklow.aspx Differences Designer vs. VS http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms414613.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms461944.aspx Example SPS workflow with screenshots http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/02/25/2207.aspx Custom Office SharePoint activities from CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/OWA/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5114 Infopath with Workflow http://www.cubido.at/Blog/tabid/176/EntryID/132/Default.aspx InfoPath training on MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb335271.aspx Best practices for WF – Jon Flanders’ Blog …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
You don’t usually get anything for free these days, specially coming from Microsoft. Check out these Microsoft freebies for SharePoint 2007: The Fantastic 40 Site Templates (leave it to tech guys to come up with such a horrible name). http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/templates/default.mspx Master Pages Samples: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7c05ca44-869a-463b-84d7-57b053711a96&displaylang=en&tm
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
On my previous article “SharePoint Client Side Customization – Part 1 (Rude Awakening)”, I talked about the limitations that I have encountered while working with SharePoint. With this in mind, I would like to show how SharePoint Web Services can provide you a lot of flexibility when customizing SharePoint. Requirements: I have a Task List …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
I have been recently contacted by a group that has created a Document Library within their SharePoint Site, containing about 2,600 folders. When I first looked at this document library, I start laughing hysterically, since it seems extremely funny how users have turned a SharePoint Document Library onto a File Cabinet. Here are a few …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
As many of you may know, I am a soccer (futbol) fanatic and have not posted anything due to the World Cup. I hate to admit it, but I was extremely upset that Argentina lost to Germany in penalty kicks. We had a great run and thanks to our coach (Pekerman) we lost a great …