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On many occasions I have needed to use an image icon within the title of a given web part; this dresses up the web part and adds visual appeal. Historically, I have addressed this either using styles (with an image background) or a content editor web...
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How many times have you searched for something in SharePoint that you KNOW is out there and has been crawled, but it doesn't come up in your search results? Then it hits you like a bolt of lightning...you searched for the singular version of a term...
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As an SSP administrator, one can control and tweak the many aspects of SharePoint Search. One piece of the puzzle an admin can configure is a content source. For the uninitiated, a content source is simply a location where SharePoint Search is going to...
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Situation: A SharePoint server experienced some really nasty search errors (error #1000, 5214, 6398, 6482, 7888, 10036). The most annoying of all these (and one I hadn’t seen before was the error 1000, shown below). A quick internet search turns...
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Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading expert on Web usability has listed his best in class intranets. It is no surprise that half of the sites were developed in SharePoint, which i live and breathe daily. SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration...
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SharePoint 2007’s search engine has undergone huge improvements from SharePoint 2003; however, the typical user might not realize the power of SharePoint Search. In my experience, most users use search by running simple queries. While this gets...
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Have you ever created a SharePoint site that doesn’t have the Publishing Infrastructure features enabled by default, and later attempt to activate them, only to be met with a cryptic error? Typically, this is as easy as navigating to Site Actions...
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A cool feature within SharePoint is the ability to perform a look-up of information stored in another SharePoint data structure (be it a list, library, etc.). However, the standard form that Microsoft provides to interact with the lookup field is a bit...
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A lot of people have been asking about what's new in SharePoint 2010 since we came back from the conference. Below is a summary of the key highlights from my perspective: 1. Enhanced User Interface for Improved User Adoption - The Office Ribbon user...
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I run into this problem more often than not, and it seems that I always forget the little snippet of code to add, so here goes. Situation : There's a standard DispForm.aspx page for all lists; this page shows the detail of one particular list item...
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I recently was given the task of making SharePoint look less like SharePoint. This post will not discuss how to properly create master pages, layouts, and styles. There are plenty of posts already written that do a quality job explaining how...
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Have you ever found yourself editing a Word document from SharePoint, wanting to add some keywords to your metadata, then digging around Word for 15 minutes trying to find where to open the document information panel? Well, I have, and um, I do this for...
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During a recent client project, our wireframes called for a redesign of SharePoint's top search bar by stacking the elements vertically instead of horizontally. The search bar is usually rendered as a TABLE object with 4 cells across so this initially...
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We've been spending quite a bit of time recently on our SharePoint projects to determine approaches and methods to transfer knowledge and enable individuals to learn - especially around project management effectiveness. We have found that SharePoint...
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I have gotten a number of emails lately from people asking about an ROI tool for SharePoint as they are writing up their business cases for purchasing, deployment, etc. With that in mind I thought I would write a blog post on this topic. ROI is a hot...
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