Monthly Archives: September 2005

Another wish for the next version of SharePoint

My next wish is better granularity of user permissions.  I would like to not get bitten in the butt by what I like to call “hidden permissions”. The rights that you can grant or deny users are pretty explanatory on what they do.  But it also seems that other rights are included in the set that are not mentioned in the interface, nor have I seen anywhere where they are explained. Continue reading →

Add a simple CSS Button to SharePoint site

Here is some simple CSS code to add a button on your SharePoint page. The link has a class assigned to it so the default SharePoint styles won’t control the appearance of the link text. This code does differ slightly than what you would do for a regular non-SharePoint web page. Continue reading →

New solution for show/hide Admin items in SharePoint

Renaud has created a cool new web part that allows you to control the display of nav items on the page based on the user’s site group.  So for example, hide the Site Settings link to every user except Administrators.  Go check it out…

» CheckPermsContent 1.0

More thoughts on resolution…

A post from Bonsai about his resolution stats for his site, which are 37% for 1024×768 and 27% for 1280×1024 (800×600 came in at a measly #5 with 4%) made me think about recent convos about browser resolution and is it time to up the lowest common standard to 1024×768. Continue reading →