Category: Sharepoint
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In case you have never seen this article for creating a list of members dataview of a Active Directory group I highly recommend it http://www.sharepointblogs.com/wsspectacular/archive/2008/01/10/how-to-display-an-ad-group-in-a-sharepoint-dataview.aspx. I found this very useful for creating staff directory under different departmental pages in our organization. You can perform it by creating a SQL view for each department, and displaying it…
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A person might ask, Why would I want to add a webpart to the master page? For me the question normally is, Why do I need to have a top nav, left nav, and breadcrumbs? Isn’t just two of the three just as good? I prefer removing the left nav this opens the space in…
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I recently just finished a project to convert a marketing website design my organization is using into a fully functional sharepoint site. I think the number one rule I tried to hold myself to was “Don’t Touch the Master Page!”. When I started working with Sharepoint and I wanted to change the look and feel of a site…
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I recently took the Microsoft 70-631 WSS Configuration exam and passed it. I have this bit of info for those attempting to pass the exam: know both deployment scenarios around using publishing ISA Server 2004/2006 and Network Load Balancing (Unicast versus Multicast) nearly half the questions were focused on this and not on Sharepoint.
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As part of my recent Sharepoint work I worked on finding a good Weather webpart the best that I could find was the following from http://blogs.msdn.com/ketaanhs/archive/2008/03/22/showing-weather-web-part-using-rss-weather-yahoo-com-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx The RSS feed I used was: http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=01541 And used the following XSL Spreadsheet: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?> <xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform” xmlns:yweather=”http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0” xmlns:geo=”http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#”> <xsl:output method=”html” indent=”yes”/> <xsl:template match=”/”> <xsl:variable name=”scale”> <xsl:value-of…