8 posts from: Alex Angas SharePoint and the World
Portal Starter Kit
(Indexed 2005-10-26):
Sunday marked the start of my study towards the MCAD/MCSD certification. I've started with the ASP.NET course and been covering a grounding of the .NET Framework so far. I now know what runat="server" meansin SharePoint aspx pages!The training material referred me to http://www.asp.net.Here you can download Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition which is a cut downversion of the forthcoming Visual Web Developer in VS2005. However I also came acrossa link tucked away towards the end of the nav...(truncated)...
Enabling version control automatically in document libraries
(Indexed 2005-10-19):
Something else I've found using the technique Idescribed previously of using list templates. If you want to enable version control automatically when you create a new documentlibrary, start by editing the LISTSDOCLIBSCHEMA.XML file in the folder of the sitetemplate you need the feature for. In the List element at the top of the page, addthe attribute VersioningEnabled="TRUE". You may now need to perform an IISRESETfor these changes to take effect.Voila! All new document libraries you create will...(truncated)...
SharePoint service packs on customised installations
(Indexed 2005-10-19):
There have been a couple of recent service pack releases for SharePoint - WSSSP2 and SPS SP2. It's importantto realise that installing these updates on an unsupported, customised install (e.g.where you have modified aspx pages or default templates) will not touch any of thefiles you have modified. This could result in only having some of the service pack'sgoodness, and possibly and unstable install as well! To resolve the issue, a importantcommand-line switch to WindowsInstaller is explained bel...(truncated)...
Automatically sending e-mail to a person assigned an issue
(Indexed 2005-10-16):
Issues lists in SharePoint have an option such that you can 'Send e-mail to person assigned to issue'. That is, when a user is assigned an issue, and e-mail informs them of this and provides a link to view the issue in question. A recent requirement for my company's SharePoint implementation is to have that option turned on automatically with every new issues list. Using a technique I've mentioned before, I discovered an undocumented attribute of the List element, EmailAssignTo. T...(truncated)...
The Hidden Fields of List Templates
(Indexed 2005-10-16):
List templates have recently been driving me quite balmy,however I have found out some useful stuff.When creating a list using the SharePoint UI, fields such as Created By and Modifiedare quite clearly present in the 'All Items' view. But how do you put these into alist view you create yourself in CAML?It appears that when your custom list template is instantiated into a real list inSharePoint, a few extra fields get tacked on: ID - SharePoint's internal ID number for a list item ...(truncated)...
List and site template STP files (Part 2)
(Indexed 2005-10-16):
In my lastpost, I mentioned the idea of virtually taking the contents of MANIFEST.XML producedby saving a list template as STP, and dumping it into a new SCHEMA.XML file. WellI tried it and found I just couldn't get past the old, unhelpful 'Cannot completethis action' page. After at least two hours of fiddling with the list definition tomake it as friendly as possible to SharePoint, I still got nowhere. Plus, doing anIISRESET and creating a new area every time before testing was pretty frustrati...(truncated)...
List and site template STP files
(Indexed 2005-10-12):
Something very useful I came across today (mentioned by both DanielWinter and RobertBogue) is that list and site templates that get saved with an extension of STPare actually just CAB files. Rename to .CAB, open them up and you get MANIFEST.XML- a full CAML definitionof your list or site.After spending quite some time trying to createmy own list definition as defined in the SDK andnot getting the results I wanted, I've been wondering if extracting the relevant partsfrom MANIFEST.XML in STPs migh...(truncated)...
About Me
(Indexed 2005-09-30):
Now I know the first post thing works, a hello and welcome to all! The primary purpose of this blog is to share the technology I've discovered, but there'll be a bit about me as well.I've been close to computers since before I was born (my Mum worked on something likea Tandy while she was pregnant), and we got our first computer (a Commodore 64)when I was 5 (I think).Fast forwarding to now, I'm about a month in to moving to Melbourne,Victoria from Adelaide, South Australia. It'sgreat and I'm hap...(truncated)...