April 2009 archive

Overriding Core.JS functions

A client of mine recently required adding an additional E-Mail link adding to the Item Drop Down menu that drops off of the ECB menu within Document Libraries and Lists. Now this functionality is provided by the function AddSendSubMenu(m,ctx) within Core.JS. Editing this file is NOT SUPPORTED (You all know this by now I’m sure!). …

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Well it was a Thursday afterall!!

Ok, yesterday was not my best day.. There’s a reason that I switched from ITPro to Dev.. Dev’s shouldn’t do installations as they forget the important bits..like logging in as the Site Collection Admin into Central Administration, and not the Farm Admin.. Logged in properly this morning and hey presto, there’s my create or extend …

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WSS3 on Wind2K8 with SQL2K8 – Part 1

Ok, so today saw me startto build my development environment for those clients that have switched to Windows 2008 and SQL 2008. All told, I have to say the install for both products is pretty slick, I think for Win2K8 I probably clicked about 6-7 times before I had a fully working server installed and …

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Using JQuery to remove Linked List Items hyperlinks.

A client of mine recently raised a concern about the linked list items that are used within SharePoint. In the display list view, they show up as hyperlinks to the linked item. All well and good, you can click on these links to see the full item, however there is no easy way to return …

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European SharePoint Best Practices Conference

Well last week saw the first European SharePoint Best practices conference organised by Combined Knowledge here in London. The event, located at the QEII Conference centre in Westminster was exceptionally well run by Combined Knowledge, Steve and the gang certainly know how to run a user event and all of the staff from CK and …

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