SharePoint Tip #11: The Web Part Maintenance Page

In SharePoint, when an error occurs in a web part that prevents it to be rendered on the page, an error page is displayed to the user with a link...

SharePoint Tip #23: Creating a Personal Site

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...

SharePoint Tip #22: Create a User Profile

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...

SharePoint Tip #15: Testing the Display Mode of a Web Part

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...

SharePoint Tip #27: Choice Columns and DataSheet Views

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 ...

PPS 2007 Tip #1: Creating Models with Multiple Measures

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...

SharePoint Tips #25: Beware of User Profile Import

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...

SharePoint Tip #12: Forms InfoPath em Workflows criados com Visual Studio

Criar forms InfoPath para usar com Workflows criados no Visual Studio para o SharePoint é, à partida, mais simples do que criar páginas ASPX. No entanto, apesar de existir...

SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition

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...

SharePoint Tip #5: Conteúdo de um campo do tipo Lookup

Em SharePoint, utilizam-se campos do tipo Lookup (SPFieldLookup) quando se pretende que exista uma relação 1-N entre duas listas. Ao colocar-se um campo deste tipo numa lista A, é-nos...