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SharePoint Deployment Guidelines
Apparently Microsoft and I are on the same schedule.  I've had an outstanding task to write some deployment guidelines for my current client and we've finally been able to give it a priority where I can focus on it.  I still have some finishing Read More...
Posted 17 January 08 07:34 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Designer Workflow "Unknown Error"
We had to go to Microsoft for this solution so I can't take credit for it but I wanted to post the info here for others who may run into it. Issue: We have a couple lists that have many columns (70 - 90, roughly) with various data types.  At least Read More...
Posted 09 January 08 08:15 by ryanm1201 | 1 Comments   
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Workflow Issues After WSS SP1
As I mentioned in my previous post on my SP1 issues, my Designer workflows stopped working after the service pack.  Specifically, it would no longer start workflows automatically. I still don't have the answer (bad news first), but I got another Read More...
Posted 08 January 08 03:05 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Issues with WSS SP1
Sorry Rich , things didn't go so well on this end. The install of SP1 went smoothly, and I liked how clean it was so that was nice. After checking a few things out, though, I noticed two issues. First, for some reason it decided to retract all of my custom Read More...
Posted 14 December 07 12:31 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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"Upgrade" Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training
The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training was finally released recently.  We've been playing with the pre-release version in our MOSS environments for a couple months and were happy to see an update with more training content. Since we already had Read More...
Posted 12 December 07 02:25 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Attach File to List Item Error After Customizing NewForm.aspx
Background : There was a business requirement to customize a NewForm.aspx page for a list to remove some of the fields shown to a user when they enter a new item into a list. To fulfill this requirement, SharePoint Designer was used to open the NewForm.aspx Read More...
Posted 05 December 07 04:38 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Another "Ryan" at Statera
Can't have too many!! We hired Ryan McCutchen to help out with some MOSS work, especially from the end users perspective. I found out about his new blog from Wade . Subscribed. Welcome to the club! Read More...
Posted 05 December 07 04:07 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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Display New Icon in SPGridView
This took waaaayyyy too long to figure out. The requirement was to display the New icon on new items being displayed in an SPGridView according to the same rules used to display the icon in, say, a document library. What took so long was to figure out Read More...
Posted 26 November 07 04:07 by ryanm1201 | 3 Comments   
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Quick Launch Disappeared!
This was a weird one! On one of our site collections for no particular reason the Quick Launch menu disappeared. We're still not sure what happened, but here's how we fixed it. I can't take credit for this as my co-worker, Aldo, figured it out. After Read More...
Posted 12 October 07 01:20 by ryanm1201 | 1 Comments   
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Code Behind in SharePoint v3
Using code behind really expands what you can do in SharePoint, and a lot of folks don't even realize it's possible. I've done it before while writing some custom web services and the same concepts apply. Andrew Connell wrote a great article on how to Read More...
Posted 02 October 07 01:13 by ryanm1201 | 1 Comments   
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Customize Announcements Summary View
While looking at customizing some home page content (including the Announcements summary web part), I came across this little gem describing how to do things like remove the By and Modified date from the display. It involves using SharePoint Designer Read More...
Posted 27 September 07 02:27 by ryanm1201 | 1 Comments   
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Lookup Feature by GUID
We're currently in the process of moving from a staging environment to a new production environment migrating content from one to the other. After migration there was an error on a standard site which basically had no content and one document library. Read More...
Posted 14 September 07 08:03 by ryanm1201 | 3 Comments   
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Details for "Copy List Item" Action
Want a challenge? Do a search to try to find out how the Copy List Item action works within SharePoint Designer. Find answers to questions like "Does it copy columns by name or by ordinal reference?" and "What column type do I need on my target list if Read More...
Posted 27 August 07 03:10 by ryanm1201 | 2 Comments   
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Days Until Next Event
Scenario: A list contains items which have a recurring date. Anniversary, birthday, things like that. We want to calculate how many days remain until the next occurrence of that event. Solution: Create a calculated column to calculate the number of days Read More...
Posted 17 August 07 02:37 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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stsadm restore Results in "No content databases are available for this operation..."
I needed to "rename" (change the URL of) a site collection today so I went in and did a backup, and then went to restore using the new URL. When I ran the restore with the new URL, I got the following error: No content databases are available for this Read More...
Posted 14 August 07 12:04 by ryanm1201 | 0 Comments   
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