June 2007 - Posts

Custom Code Access Security for Web Parts
We've been trying to figure out a way to do some custom searching in MOSS here for a couple weeks. The first plan of attack was a custom Content Query Web Part using CommonViewFields hooked up to site columns based on a lookup. Turns out there's a bug Read More...
Posted 28 June 07 10:33 by ryanm1201 | 1 Comments   
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How to Deploy a Custom Activity as a Feature
Henry asked me to figure out a way to easily deploy the custom activity I wrote, so with a suggestion and a pointer from him I was on my way. The end result is deployment of the activity as a feature. Here's how it's done. The concept is simple. Use the Read More...
Posted 21 June 07 03:37 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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SharePoint Logs
I know I implied earlier I wouldn't be posting trivial stuff...Although this may fall into that category, it also falls in to the category of "Ryan will forget this". We don't have a way to attach a debugger to our dev site right now, so debugging is Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 02:25 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Custom Workflow Activity for SharePoint Designer to Retrieve Manager
My recent task was to create a custom workflow activity that users could access in SharePoint Designer which would be used to retrieve a users manager from Active Directory. No, you don't get this out of the box. But you almost do! And with this post Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 02:14 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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New SharePoint Category
No more playing around. After lots of labs, classes, webcasts, reading, etc. on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), I'm now on a project actually working with it. I've been on it for about 6 weeks now so I'm getting dangerous enough to post some tidbits I run into Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 01:17 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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