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  • Getting Query String Parameters with JavaScript in SharePoint

    The JSRequest class is a JavaScript object that lives on all SharePoint Pages, and allows us to simply and quickly get query string parameters using JavaScript. It has 3 fields: QueryString, FileName, and PathName. QueryString - is an array of key\value pairs representing the current query string parameters...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-30-2008
  • Search Federation Part 2 - Customizing Results with SharePoint Designer

    Welcome back! This post will be the conclusion of my Search Federation article. In Part 1, I talked about Federation in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Microsoft Search Server (MSS/X), and showed you how to create a basic Federated Location to query an external resource - in this case,...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-22-2008
  • Search Federation with SharePoint - Part 1

    Today I'm going to walk you through setting up a Federated Location in Search Server and post-Infrastructure Update SharePoint. (Twitter fans, pay attention, as that's the service I'm using in these examples...) While that certainly qualifies as "Back to Basics", that's just...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-18-2008
  • SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug - Part 3

    This is an update and closing post for the SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug. First post introduced the bug and suggested a fix: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2008/05/07/sharepoint-designer-data-form-web-part-context-menu-bug.aspx Second post showed a way to...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
  • Redecorate and Remodel, or Tear-Down?

    Last month, I talked about my SharePoint Hippocratic Oath , and using the right tool for the level of customization you are looking for. One of my key suggestions was using CSS (e.g. a SharePoint Theme) for the bulk of the work, and only moving into your Master Pages (or beyond) for those things that...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 10-06-2008
  • First, Do No Harm

    When I was speaking at the Wisconsin SharePoint Users Group last week, someone asked me: "How do you know when to choose SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio for a particular change to a site?" I explained that I had a sort of "Hippocratic Oath" for SharePoint customization. Read...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 09-22-2008
  • On to Wisconsin!

    I'm excited to announce that I will be speaking this month at the Wisconsin SharePoint Users Group . The meeting will be held September 16th, at the Microsoft office in Waukesha, Wisconsin - just outside of Milwaukee. My topic will be how to Create no-code/low-code solutions using SharePoint Designer...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 09-08-2008
  • SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part apostrophe bug

    Problem: You try to use a Data Form Web Part (Data View Web Part) to display a document library in an XSLT view. You find out that documents that include an apostrophe character (') in their file name, cannot be opened or viewed. (There might be other problematic characters beside apostrophe, I haven't...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008
  • SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug - Part 2

    In one of my last posts I wrote about a bug that we found in SharePoint Designer's 2007 Data Form Web Part (DFWP), and how to fix it. (Look at the original post for a detailed description of the bug) Microsoft Support guys has read that post and provided an additional tip for permanently fixing that...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
  • Packaging and re-using SharePoint designer workflows (Part 1)

    Purpose of this article The purpose of this article is to explain some of the inner workings of SharePoint designer workflows. It will also explain why SharePoint designer workflows are not portable by default. Additionally, in the upcoming blog there will be a tool available that allows for basic packaging...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-04-2008
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