Recently I wanted to create a new web application in SharePoint and so I went to the Central Admin website to create one, but the option was missing. Even though I was logged in as the System Account, the farm administration account I couldn't see t...
Using WSS on public sites means giving anonymous access to virtually all the pages in your site, including all the different list views and document libraries. People won't be able to do anything they are not allowed to because of security trimming,...
Most of the SharePoint websites I work on do not expose any of the standard SharePoint functionality. They do not use webparts and so do not require any of the SharePoint javascript functionality.
SharePoint includes files to support the client s...
The Problem
Sometimes its just easier to fire up SQL Management Studio and have a quick look at the database to find out what's going on. Today I had that situation, I wanted to dele a content type and SharePoint kept telling me it was in use, bu...
A little while ago I was asked if it was possible to add an 'Up Folder' button so that users could navigate back to the parent folder in a ListView webpart. I knew you could easily add a button to the ListView toolbar and adding the functionality t...
I had developed a team site on a virtual machine with the intention to move it to a WSS install once it was ready. I planned on using STSADM -o export to achieve this. Initially I had a problem exporting the site because of a feature I had created ...
In order to develop with SharePoint you really need to have a set of tools to make your life simpler. Everyone has their own preferences, but this is my current toolset. Everyday Tools These are the tools I use pretty much everyday and couldn't get ...
One of the things that can really help the performance of your site is caching. Going to the SharePoint database for every request to retrieve a file can be very expensive, particularly if once the file has been retrieved you need to process it fu...
Custom Actions are useful as they allow you to add functionality to a list without having to write any code. Using the UrlAction node of the CustmAction node you can create a link to a page passing the ListID using List={ListId} in the URL. Normal...
SharePoint designer can be frustrating, but it is convenient. Allowing you to drag 'n' drop controls into your layout is very useful for the lazy ones amongst us and so it can be useful if your own custom controls are available too. Fortunately Sh...