I just picked up the news on Eric Shupps blog that well known SharePoint MVP Patrick Tisseghem passed away whilst travelling in Sweden to teach a course. This is a sad loss for the SharePoint community as Patrick’s articles have helped more than a few of us other last few years. My thoughts go out …
Category: SharePoint
Aug 27
How to brand your WebPart solutions..
So you’ve written a nice web part solution, ready to release it onto your clients environment, but wait a minute! How do they know you wrote it for them? All you’ve got is those generic icons that microsoft provide you. This is the situation i found myself in recently, and realised that with my change …
Aug 15
SUGUK London Meeting.
Well last night saw what was possibly the busiest August SUGUK meeting i’ve ever seen, so much so that they ran out of Pizza!! (Nick, this is a crime that can never be repeated!!!) Two very good sessions, the first by Eric (www.sharepointcowboy.com) Shupps (I think I spelled that right..) and the second from our …
Aug 05
Infopath forms with User ID’s
Well day 2 in the new office and I’m please to say I’m happy with my move. I’ve not touched a single server that doesn’t have SharePoint on it and I’ve not had to deal with any PM’s frantically chasing an update on their server builds!! What I have been involved with is a problem …
Jul 31
Today’s the day!
Quite sad really, I walked through the doors as an employee for the last time this morning.. No real sense of occaision about it. But seeing my desk as tidy as it is right now makes it sink in that today really is my last day here.. Everything that’s left is now sitting in a …
Jul 30
24 Hours to go..
Well I’m struggling to get everything finished that I wanted to before I leave, but here just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything. I was here until 11pm last night releasing the latest version of the Implementation workflow. Unfortunatly because we were releasing new forms, it meant stopping and restarting all 86 exising …
Jul 07
Upgrading Features.
I’ve been quite naughty recently and I’ve been taking the easy way out when it comes to putting code upgrades in. It’s very easy to drag the DLL from the dev environment and just drop it into either the Gac or the local Bin, without any thought to what happens if someone comes along and …
Jun 25
All Change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since my last post at the end of May, my SharePoint immersion has tailed off heavily due to urgent server builds that had to meet heavy deadlines. The upshot of this is I’ve hardly touched any code this month. That coupled with a week in Gran Canaria has meant a very lean SharePoint month for …
May 29
Using the undocumented SPUtility.SendEmail method.
As with a lot of the sharePoint API, the SPUtility class and more importantly the sendEMail method lacks a decent amount of documentation on its use. After a little bit of playing around with a console session, I’ve found what seems to be the best way to use this function. (For me at least.. feel …
May 08
Failing to display the InfoPath workflow form.
We’ve hit an unusual problem in our estate with the SharePoint implementation. Around a month ago, a number of our users had their machines upgraded to Office 2007. Today when they tried to edit a workflow task assigned to them, the page loaded, but the browser based infopath form failed to display and IE showed …