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Using features to create Choice site columns is pretty straightforward (check this post for additional information). See below a sample feature element for that purpose. < Field ID = " {538c71e4-8650-4ce7-b021-920effa66346}
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There is an issue with SharePoint 2010’s CAML parser that causes SharePoint to ignore fields in a Content Type definition. When defining a Content Type feature element, avoid placing comments inside the <fieldrefs> element as that will cause SharePoint
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Among SharePoint 2007’s User Profile features, one of the most useful is the Profile Import . This feature allows you to import existing user accounts from Active Directory, an LDAP server or the Business Data Catalog, to the User Profile Store. Even
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Changing a web site's navigation settings is pretty easy using the SharePoint user interface. You just click the Site Actions button, select the Site Settings option, and click on Navigation. But how do you do it programmatically? Most navigation options
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The User Profile is the central concept behind the personalization features of SharePoint (MOSS only). In addition to the User Profile, each user can have a My Site . A My Site is composed of: A Profile Page that shows the user profile data, according
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The best way to create SharePoint User Profiles is to import them from somewhere (Active Directory for instance). This is specially true if you want to create a lot of them at once. However, if you really want to do it manually, one at a time, you can.
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One of the best things of SharePoint's User Profiles, is that the profile data can be imported from several data sources (Active Directory or other LDAP directories, Databases and web services). It gets even better since you can schedule these imports
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User Profiles are a central concept to Office SharePoint Server 2007. They store all the information about the SharePoint users in a central location, the User Profile Store, allowing that information to be indexed and searched. The User Profile store
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When developing web parts or other controls that use JavaScript, it's quite common to need to call some function on the Body OnLoad event of the web page. The problem with this is that, in SharePoint, the Body element is in the master page and not
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Each field type has a different way to be read from and written to. The most used ones (single line of text, multiple lines of text, number, currency, date and time and yes/no) are easy to use because SharePoint's object model makes it very simple
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In a Document Library, when you create a new document using the New button (or edit one that already exists), SharePoint will open the proper client application (if it knows which one it is) for you to edit the file. If you have an event handler attached
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When defining a List Template, using a SharePoint feature, one needs to specify the Base Type attribute (see sample below). < Elements xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ " > < ListTemplate BaseType = " 0 "
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When developing a web part (whether in WSS 3.0 or in ASP.Net 2.0) it can be important that it appears differently if the user is in edit mode. The simplest way to do this is to test the WebPartManager 's DisplayMode in the web part's Render or
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Attention: this post refers to the CTP2 version of PerformancePoint Server 2007. If, when opening Excel (2007 or 2003), after installing the PerformancePoint Add-In for Excel, you can't find the ribbon (2007) or the menu/task pane (2003) of PerformancePoint,
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Note: this post is about the CTP4 version of PerformancePoint Server 2007. If you've used PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build Business Models (using PerformancePoint Business Modeler ), you might have noticed that the created models (which correspond
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