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Comment on List Item Attachments – Handling the uploads manually. by SpittingCAML » InfoPath forms with file attachments: one potential solution, for all InfoPath forms?

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:37:59 +0000

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Comment on Weird CQWP behaviour with custom user columns by Reginald

Reginald — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:27:26 +0000

We raised a call with Microsoft PSS in the end and we’ve been told today by PSS after consulting with the SharePoint dev team that this is a known issue and that Custom Fields using the People or Groups field type do NOT work with the CQWP, only out of the box fields.

The workaround above does work, however further tests show it’s not reliable and is very situational.

Paul.

Comment on Using the undocumented SPUtility.SendEmail method. by Using the undocumented SPUtility.SendEmail method. « Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict « The Ramblings of Ben

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:41:39 +0000

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Comment on Whats the record for the longest Calculated SharePoint column? by SharePoint Kaffeetasse 129 - Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP] - SharePointCommunity

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:29:24 +0000

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Comment on Creating a Sales Dashboard using the DataViewWebpart & XSL by Tweets that mention Creating a Sales Dashboard using the DataViewWebpart & XSL « Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict -- Topsy.com

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:44:00 +0000

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Comment on Creating a Sales Dashboard using the DataViewWebpart & XSL by Reginald

Reginald — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:48:56 +0000

Note: This is an extension to the original published on the Microsoft site which I've adapted to suit the client requirements to work out an actual target against total sales, Introducing some XSL math to the mix. Original post here. Also, you'll need to right click the XSL file and choose save as, remembering to rename it to XSL as for some reason IE forces it to become XML.

Comment on Adding a ContentType Specific item to the ECB (Edit Control Block) by Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict » List Item Attachments - Handling the uploads manually.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:01:58 +0000

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Comment on Event handlers from code – redux! by Reginald

Reginald — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:20:40 +0000

Redux twice.. I got back to working on this and found out what happens to the Event Handlers.

When you update the master content type, the Event handlers get applied to the SPList.EventReceivers collection of the list containing the Content type. This collection happily shows a GUID, which isn’t the same as the one that we specified on the Master cType, which is as we’d expect as SharePoint has instanced the event handler to the list.

Paul.

Comment on Workflow design in Visual Studio 2005 by Reginald

Reginald — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:18:42 +0000

If you are running your Dev system on Virtual PC on your machine, at least you have a lot more control over it?..

You can just do a standalone SP install using the WSS install from MS, The only thing you won’t really be able to test is anything using Kerberos.

Reg.

Comment on Workflow design in Visual Studio 2005 by Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:38:04 +0000

Hi Reg,

Thanks for that. Not sure about the 64-bit DLLs bit – it’s a 32-bit install!

As much as I don’t really want to, I might just go ahead with a local / dev setup. My main concern was licensing – but if dev setups are “OK” then well I guess I’ll go for it.

My workstation is beefy – but then equally we have a full virtual environment going on – and I’m not sure what would be better – VirtualPC/Server on my Workstation – or a standalone dedicated Sharepoint dev server… hmm. I think I’m edging towards the latter, but I’m not sure how my sys admin will feel about that.

There’s no way I can replicate our live SP install – but presumably if I installed it as a standalone so everything was all on the same box then it would be “pretty much” OK for basic workflow development stuff – ?