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SharePoint Designer Workflow Activity: Updating a document with the properties of its parent folder
I currently have a requirement for a client where there a series of folders inside a document library that get automatically generated by another workflow. The folder itself is a content [...]
SharePoint Saturday – Kansas City
I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday event in Kansas City on February 7. I'll be presenting with some good pals of mine, including Matt Bremer and Todd Kitta. The [...]
What is Web Content Management?
Although many peope are familiar with the collaboration features of SharePoint, the web content management featurs are not as often so well-known. Before you start thinking about using SharePoint to [...]
Updating Content Types and Site Columns That Were Deployed as a Feature
How many times have you come across this scenario? You create several Site Columns as well as a Content Type or two in your Feature. Then you want to update [...]
Web Content Management @ The St. Louis User’s Group
Join me again this month as I present at the November St. Louis User's Group meeting on November 11th, 2008. I'll be going over the basics of web content management, [...]
To Bracket or Not to Bracket (Field Element ID GUID)
When creating Fields, Content Types, solution packages, etc., in SharePoint, you'll make heavy use of GUIDs. However, it seems to be hit-or-miss as to whether SharePoint expects the curly brackets [...]
Lessons Learned on Getting Buy-in
Chapters 2 and 3 of the SharePoint Best Practices book I've been reading discuss the emotional aspect of getting people to "buy into" this new SharePoint solution you're building. I thought [...]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Best Practices
I am in the process of reading the Microsoft Press book by Ben Curry and Bill English, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Best Practices. While there are numerous books on [...]
Quick Script for Uncustomizing Page Layouts
I ran into an issue where several of my Page Layouts had been customized using SharePoint Designer. I didn't want them to be customized, because I had deployed an upgraded [...]
September 2008 St. Louis User Group Meeting
I'll be presenting at the upcoming St. Louis Users Group meeting on September 9, at the Microsoft office at City Place. The topic of my presentation is "InfoPath and Web [...]
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