December 2009 - Posts

SharePoint: Add a “You are leaving this site” message to a links list.
29 December 09 10:27 AM | Tech Training Notes
This article is a variation of “http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-adding-popups-to-link-lists.html” and makes just one small change: Replace: links[i].target="_blank“ With: links[i].onclick=function () {alert('you are now...
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SharePoint: Wiki Search and Replace
22 December 09 06:19 PM | Tech Training Notes
Recently I was asked about how to do a search and replace on text in all of the articles in a wiki. As there is no built-in way to do this I wrote a simple web page to do this. Note that the example below is trivial and: Is presented as a learning exercise...
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SharePoint: The security validation for this page is invalid
22 December 09 05:50 PM | Tech Training Notes
When creating an ASPX page in the LAYOUTS folder that updates SharePoint content via the API (mylistitem.upate) you may get the following message when posting back to the page: Many articles on the web suggest using AllowUnsafeUpdates: SPWeb web = SPContext...
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SharePoint: Worst SharePoint Error Message?
21 December 09 05:02 AM | Tech Training Notes
(MOSS 2007) “WSS_Search_servername on servername contains user-defined schema. Databases must be empty before they can be used. Delete all of the tables, stored procedures and other objects or use a different database.” Just got this on one of my virtual...
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SharePoint: DataView Group By Expand / Collapse bug fixed!
19 December 09 04:48 PM | Tech Training Notes
One of the more popular articles I’ve written in this blog is “Group By on more than 2 columns in a view”. As it has been over a year now, I decided to update the article and clean it up a bit. One of the problems many people had with it was not my solution...
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SharePoint 2010: Change the passphrase
07 December 09 06:02 AM | Tech Training Notes
When you install SharePoint using an option other than Stand-Alone you will be asked for a “Passphrase” that can be used later on for things like adding a new server to the farm. This is especially needed if you let SharePoint 2010 manage your service...
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Silverlight: Useful links
06 December 09 08:34 AM | Tech Training Notes
Below are some of the resources I refer to in my Silverlight classes. These include: Official Sites Tutorial Sites Best places to ask questions (forums) What’s new in Silverlight 3 What’s new in Silverlight 4 Downloads Other useful links Official Sites...
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SharePoint 2010: Office Web Apps – The “in browser” Office
02 December 09 04:09 PM | Tech Training Notes
One of the cool features demo’ed with SharePoint 2010 are the “in browser” Office Web Apps. These are browser based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. But… you won’t find these when you download and install Beta 2. They are a separate download...
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