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SharePoint: Import Spreadsheet – Which column is the edit column?
09 August 10 11:56 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Why does Import Speadsheet pick column “A” as the edit column? I saw something odd in an import recently where the import picked a column way out to the right of the list. So I put together a test with columns in all different orders, and one that only...
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SharePoint: Creating Calculated Column Formulas the Easy Way Using Excel
06 August 10 03:06 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
The following works in both 2007 and 2010. Calculated Columns Below is a screen capture of where you enter the formula for a Calculated column. See that big empty space to the left… wouldn’t it have been great if they had used that space for some notes...
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SharePoint Saturday Columbus - August 14th 2010
02 August 10 04:23 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/columbus/default.aspx Register here: http://spscolumbus.eventbrite.com/ Finally we get a SharePoint Saturday (almost) local to Cincinnati! It’s just a little drive up the road to Columbus: Join SharePoint architects,...
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SharePoint: Strange error message of the day…
01 August 10 04:24 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
‘null’ is null And that’s not as it should be? I know, this is a common JavaScript error. It just kind of pressed my “huh” button. (only 46,000 hits when you Google "'null' is null or not an object") . Read More... Del.icio.us | Digg...
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SharePoint 2010: Missing View Dropdown
31 July 10 05:40 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
SharePoint 2010 has mixed three features into the title area of a page, the Site Title, the crumb trail and for lists and libraries, a View selection dropdown. Here’s an example: Now you want to add a custom message to a view page… In 2007 we have two...
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SharePoint Workflow Documentation
26 July 10 10:46 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Here’s a list of the out of the box workflows and links to Microsoft’s documentation… (just some more after class documentation!) SharePoint 2007 Workflows Three-state workflow http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/use-a-three-state...
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SharePoint: Add Instructions and Color to Surveys
22 July 10 03:49 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Only tested in SharePoint 2007 so far… Survey Instructions Surveys often need instructions or opening text. Here is a trick that converts a “Single line of text” question into just a page of text. There is one side effect; your “instructions question...
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SharePoint: Font Sizes!
19 July 10 04:02 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Simple question… I want to update core.css to change the font sizes displayed in the page… how many do I need to update? Would believe 19 different font sizes in 155 different styles in MOSS? And in SharePoint Server 2010 there are 36 different font sizes...
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Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with the MVP Experts
15 July 10 10:55 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Q&A events are a great...
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SharePoint: A Better People and Groups View
06 July 10 04:32 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Customize the SharePoint People Views SharePoint All People and Group views are a bit light weight. If you want to know someone’s phone number you have to click their name and wait for another page to load, or to see if they are a Site Collection Administrator...
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SharePoint 2010: Color Coded Calendars!
28 June 10 04:50 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Color Coded Events in SharePoint 2010 Calendars Back in 2008 I wrote a little blog article on adding color to SharePoint 2007 calendar events. Several people have been pestering me to update it for SharePoint 2010, so here goes... Several things have...
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Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with 17 MVP Experts
20 June 10 05:42 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Do you have questions about SharePoint? Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint...
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Planning WAY Ahead… Tech-Ed 2011!
11 June 10 07:26 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Tech-Ed 2010 is over today… and I missed out this year :-( But, Tech-Ed 2011 has been scheduled! May 16-19 2011 in Atlanta Sign up for EARLY discounts by June 30th, 2010 http://northamerica.msteched.com/registration Home page: http://northamerica.msteched...
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Planning WAY Ahead… SharePoint Conference 2011
10 June 10 06:25 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
SharePoint Conference 2011 It’s June 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Team is announcing SharePoint Conference 2011: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/08/save-the-date-sharepoint-conference-2011.aspx (Maybe it’s a way of saying… no SharePoint...
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TechTrainingNotes now twittering…
04 June 10 10:24 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
I’ve been pestered about not being up to date and “twittering”. Well, I’m not twittering, but my blog site is… My blog is on blogspot.com and they have added a feature to “twitter” new blog articles. So… You can of course still use an RSS feed: http:...
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