Jun29

Hiding the SharePoint Login

SharePoint was originally a platform for internal work. It was logical to make it easy for users to login to the site at any time so that they could take full advantage of the site's capabilities. With SharePoint 2007 being used for public facing ...[Read More]

Jun12

Migrating Documents and Meta Data with Colligo Contributor

So you've designed the perfect taxonomy for your new portal. Your nice new document libraries are associated to brilliantly planned content types. Your content types use site columns that are associated with top level lists, making editing your Me ...[Read More]

Jun04

Leveraging the Content Query Web Part in Your Department Site

For those of you trying to get a better handle on organizing your department site, one challenge can be storing and accessing documents spread across the Portal. While SharePoint search works well for locating files across various sites and librar ...[Read More]

Jun04

Enabling "Contains" and "Does not contain" in advanced search (the poor man's wildcard)

SharePoint exposes a powerful search engine that can be invoked from the Advanced Search web part that is included on the default search center landing page.   However, the default configuration only allows a user to query results using the &quo ...[Read More]

Jun03

Create a Custom NewForm.aspx for a SharePoint List

  SharePoint has a number of features when it comes to working with its built-in lists. One of these is that it automatically generates New (NewForm.aspx), Edit (EditForm.aspx) and Display (DispForm.aspx) for each list when it is created. While t ...[Read More]

Jun03

How to Re-use web parts

Here's the scenario..You have 50 sub-sites and you anticipate that they'll all be using the exact same web part. You are totally not feeling it...in other words..."geez, do i really have to go through 50 sub-sites and add a web part and defin ...[Read More]

Jun03

Implementing the SharePoint Console Header in a Branded Publishing Site

When working with your beautiful custom branded SharePoint site you still need to maintain the power of SharePoint's publishing console. It would be nice to keep all of this functionality without creating too much of an eye sore on your design. In ...[Read More]

Jun03

Product Expiration Date activated after installing SP2 for MOSS 2007

    Just a heads up when installing SP2 for SharePoint Server 2007, as it incorrectly activates the product expiration date. This means 180 days after that date, without applying the workaround, the SharePoint Server will become inaccessible to ...[Read More]