I recently checked a couple of blogs about using dynamically loaded User Controls. Some of the blogs mentioned SmartPart v2 (aka SonOfSmartPart) to load ASP.NET 2.0 User Controls. This WebPart is completely targeted to SharePoint 2003, but it will remain working in MOSS 2007. When creating new Web Parts...
Sometimes you think “asjemenou” when you run into a very obvious bug. I had such an experience with Sharepoint today. When you create for example a document library in a portal area there is a section in which you can select the document library to “display on the quick launch bar”...
For things like the content editor webpart and the add listing functionality, Sharepoint has a Text Editor. As you might have noticed, the text editor isn't the same everywhere. It looks more or less the same but it is supplying different functionality at every different location. To change the default...
A few weeks ago I was working on a web part which had to display the area hierarchy, much like the way topics are displayed. When implementing I found out that the areas in the AreaCollection were returned in alphabetical order and not in the hiearchical order that Sharepoint uses. It turned out that...
When we set up the portal for my current client we decided that all departments were to get a wss site to store documents etc. These site were also accessible to colleagues from other departments. If you set the rights correctly there is nothing really wrong with this set-up. However, the problem we...
Today I decided to create a new area in a Sharepoint portal. I then decided that I wanted to customize the resulting page. What I failed to notice is that the area was created from a default template. After making some changes to this area I noticed that other area's now looked like my new area. We have...
This post is to warn about the dangers of restoring a SharePoint portal. This week somebody accidentally deleted an area on a portal. Fotunately we had a sql back-up of our Sharepoint Database. However when trying to create a new portal to point to these databases something went wrong in the configuration...
Mike Fitzmaurice is the technical product manager for Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. He has started blogging: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz/ I've seen Mike at a presentation in Cannes (yes, Cannes in France) last year. I find him an excellent speaker with a lot of humor, so I expect...
A while ago I was looking in Sharepoint to find the option where to view the usage details of a portal area. In a WSS site it can be found under Site Settings/Site administration/View Site Usage data. I'm fairly sure now that it is not available through the admin pages of a Sharepoint Portal. However...
To keep up with all the end of year top lists of things, I thought to share the things I dislike the most about SharePoint. Bear in mind though that I do like SharePoint a lot, so I will probably also be posting a list of things I like most as well in the near future. Remember this is my personal list...