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 2010: Change the “Add New Item” (and other) messages for a web part
07 August 10 03:04 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
This a SharePoint 2010 update to the SharePoint 2007 article found here: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-change-add-new-message-for.html The Goal To change from “Add new item”: to “Click here to add team tasks”: ID’s used by web...
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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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Are you an unemployed developer? (Project Phoenix)
02 August 10 06:26 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
For complete details: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/arnie_rowland/archive/2010/07/30/like-a-phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes.aspx Project Phoenix is inviting unemployed or underemployed developers to propose a software project for a non-profit agency, school...
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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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Worst license dialog box?
23 July 10 02:58 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Below is the license screen for the .NET Framework 4 Setup. Big, almost empty dialog box, and they only display three and a half lines of the license agreement at a time… Maybe they added the print and save buttons so you could actually read it. . Read...
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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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CSS Resources
22 July 10 03:29 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
Just a few CSS resources for my classes: W3Schools.com CSS Reference http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp Microsoft's CSS Reference, Tutorials and How to’s http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531205(VS.85).aspx W3Schools.com tutorial http...
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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 2010: Replacing the Crumb Trail and Changing the Title
09 July 10 09:41 AM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
I like SharePoint 2010, I really do… but I just can’t get the hang of the Site Title / Crumb Trail thing, and the Navigate Up button is just not right. Below is a series of screens to show how the 2010 navigation works, and the issues I have with the...
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SharePoint 2010: Where are the Icons?
08 July 10 01:16 PM | Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
This article might be titled… Fun with SharePoint 2010 branding. I was trying to find the icon used as the divider in the SharePoint 2010 Site Title / Crumb Trail. It’s the little triangle below: SharePoint 2010 Icons So I was browsing the source HTML...
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