A family member sent me this link, I think it is an interesting site… Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Workaround for Lookup field in SharePoint list templates
If you have ever tried to save a list as a template that contains a Lookup field for one of the columns, you have undoubtedly discovered that the template once implemented on another site will be unable to properly lookup a field for that column. Instead the column will have to be deleted and recreated for each instance of the list. Continue reading
Cool CSS trick: Add alternating row style to a table
James Jackson shares a cool trick to add an alternating row style to any table using CSS and one image… very neat and useful. Continue reading
A tale from the SharePoint trenches
Mauro Cardarelli has written a nice piece about measuring the success of a portal. Reading his post about a recent portal launch made me reflect on my not so recent portal launch. We are 9 months into a very large portal deployment, where we took a regular HTML intranet site and turned it into a behemoth portal site, handing over content control to the content owners and combing several smaller sites into the larger portal. It was quite a ride during development, and has been an interesting experience since deployment. Continue reading
Good implementation of the SharePoint OWA web part
Renaud steps through how he made the OWA web part actually useful in SharePoint. The big problem with this web part is getting it configured for each individual user, Renaud has figured out how.
A review of SharePoint Search
Greg McAllister has done a nice write up of some basic portal search information, which is always pretty daunting to work with. Nice post!
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar has been updated
Thanks Renaud! This toolbar is invaluable and you should install it. MSFT has released an updated version on 10/31/05.
Portal My Sites Explained
E.Shupps summed up some My Site info quite nicely, and it is very handy given all the confusion around personal sites with what they are and how you can update them. Continue reading