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A(nother) Business Case for Twitter

I can’t see why some companies continue to block Twitter access to their employees.  Especially developers.  For me, Twitter has been an invaluable resource.  A wealth of 140 character wisdom.  An constant supply of what is new in the SharePoint (or insert your favorite topic here) world.

This example just happened to me yesterday.  I am [...]

September 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: problems | Leave a comment

Removing OPTIONS with jQuery

Here’s a usability solution that was necessitated by my desire to present a logical, workable solution to my end-user.  I’m still learning jQuery so my solution may not be the most elegant – but it works. I welcome any improvements!

The Setup

I have a SharePoint site that is displaying the results of an SQL stored procedure.  [...]

May 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Development, problems | Leave a comment

XSL:split-string function

One of the reasons I like developing for SharePoint is that I get to work with many different technologies and platforms.  When I am designing a custom list for (display, edit or new), There are times where I may have a delimited string in a field that I want to display differently on the screen. [...]

February 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized, problems | Leave a comment

A SharePoint Design Question

Normally, I write solutions to problems.  This time around, I need some suggestions to get ideas on how to design a solution to a problem.

The credit department where I work accumulates/produces documents to support the credit limit they grant our customers.  We have categorized them as :

Financial Statements
Agency Reports
Parent Guarantees
Other

We have defined a content type [...]

February 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: architecture, problems | 6 comments

Notes to SharePoint Migration

The company I work for purchased the Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint.  Overall, it has saved me lots of time migrating from Lotus Notes.  The main reason is that I have absolutely zero experience with Notes.  Now, the Quest tool allows me to migrate all of the rows into SharePoint pretty painlessly.  I was having [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: problems | Leave a comment

Exporting List Data

If you have list data that you want to use in another application, what are some ways to get to that data? That was the question posed by a recent requirement from a client. Fortunately, SharePoint presents us with some creative ways to get to the list data.

Export to Excel. This is a [...]

November 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: problems | Leave a comment

Why does making a Lookup site column an indexed field break my CAML Query?

when the EmailSource field is NOT set as an indexed column, this query would return all list items where EmailSource didn’t have a value. As soon as I set EmailSource as an indexed column, the query would always return zero items, even though I knew it should return some list items.

August 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: problems | Leave a comment