Filtered Lookup Lists in SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 – Using JavaScript and Keeping Attachments Working

A little while back I created a post about how to filter a lookup list used on a New or Edit form. The process was a little involved but worked beautifully except when you needed attachments to work (the attachment problem is a known issue when customizing an Edit or New form). In that post [...]

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SharePoint – Hiding the breadcrumb navigation links

Frequently I get requests on how to hide the breadcrumb navigation links on a page in SharePoint. For a single page, you can add a content editor web part to the page and then add the following “code” in the Source Editor.

<style type=”text/css”>

#ctl00_PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb_ContentMap {display=none;}

</style>

If you want to hide the breadcrumbs on all pages, [...]

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Hiding the Quick Launch View All Site Content link

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) One question I get asked all the time is how to hide the View All Site Content link from the Quick Launch navigation in SharePoint. Unfortunately, there is no option under Site Settings to do this. Instead, the easiest way is to open SharePoint Designer and edit the default.master page [...]

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Multiple Custom EditForm.aspx Pages for a single SharePoint List Problem

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) We had a site that needed to have two different custom EditForm.aspx pages. Each custom form was based off the original EditForm.aspx page (this is the recommended approach and can be done by saving “As”). One was set to be used as the default edit form (List Properties /Supporting Files [...]

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“A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed”

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) I had a client who was trying to access a customized datasheet view in WSS 3.0 and received the error “A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed.” The only option that was given was to display the page in the standard view. After a little investigation, [...]

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SharePoint Magazine and International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA)

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) There is a great SharePoint resource online now called SharePoint Magazine. On the site you will find technical information, people, articles, and all the latest on SharePoint including an article about the newly formed International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA).

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Customizing SharePoint Tools – Firebug and IE DebugBar

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) If you’re involved at all with changing the look and feel of SharePoint sites, you will find a couple of browser add-ons very useful for understanding page layouts and styles. Say goodbye to right-click View source!

For Firefox you won’t be able to live without Firebug. Besides viewing page HTML and [...]

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SharePoint Content Editor Web Part – Problems Editing and Displaying in FireFox

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) Ever had a problem with the html generated by the out-of-the-box Content Editor web part where centered text created in Internet Explorer doesn’t display as centered text in Firefox? Have you ever seen where content created in IE overlaps when displayed in Firefox? Ever tried to use the Content Editor [...]

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Sites hosted on Microsoft SharePoint and WSSDemo

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) Check out Ian Morrish’s WSS Demo site. It has tons of resources for SharePoint including a list of Public Web Sites that are hosted on Microsoft SharePoint. Take a look and see what others are doing that might be helpful to you.

You will be amazed by the number of sites [...]

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Total Solutions Life Cycle

(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) Check out the MSDN article “Total Solutions Life Cycle” which was ghostwritten by several of my colleagues.  It will most certainly change the way you approach customer solutions and significantly increase the number of successful software projects in business.

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