Archive for the ‘SharePoint’ Category

People/Group field in SharePoint allow us to keep adding the existing user(s) or group(s) into the document library or list item. Let’s think, I have a list where one field name i.e. Assigned To (reviewer) is type of People/Group. Objective is when I assign someone to review the list item, and then an email notification [...]

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 00:05 | 0 comments

Productive reports are always welcome. Management always appreciates you to build up a good informative report. In SharePoint, you can found a large area where organization can play with their business data and transformed the raw data to a informative and intelligent report.
From the ancient stage, we are following the process to transformed business data [...]

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 08:59 | 1 comment

Today, I’m going to demonstrate one useful and simple custom method against SPList object which could be reusable in other SharePoint applications. The objective is to verify whether any item is exist in the existing SharePoint list. And if the item is not exist in the SharePoint list, let an entry of the new inserted [...]

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 at 17:53 | 0 comments

We can assume many things in life, but not everything match with our assumption. Similar story with SPList.Fields properties. Fields is a properties of the SPList objects which actually returns the SPFieldCollection object which also basically inherited  from SPBaseCollection.
From .NET perspective, we can use indexer or name to get the actual Field object from the [...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 04:25 | 0 comments

This is very common requirement in web world to open any link in a new window. The simplest approach is to use JavaScript to implement same. The same is applicable in SharePoint as well. There are different gateways you can implement JavaScript in SharePoint pages. You can use master page, layout page or any OTB [...]

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 17:54 | 0 comments

SharePoint designer has many features and one of the features is to design the SharePoint list and implement rule over there. You can implement bi-color on any SharePoint list by using SharePoint designer.
This article is to help you to understand how to design a list in a SharePoint page, implement rule on the list and [...]

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 18:02 | 0 comments

On October 29th, Jie Li, Technical Product Manager, SharePoint at Microsoft has been announced the release of cumulative update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 at MS SharePoint blog.
Below the download Information:
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974989
Office SharePoint Server 2007 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974988

Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 19:24 | 0 comments
Categories: SharePoint, WSS 3.0

One of the most usable OOTB web parts in SharePoint is Content Query Web Part (CQWP). It has been hugely used in publishing sites. Designer as well as developer always prefer this OOTB component for branding or display the data into the dashboard.
CQWP is for to display the dynamic content in your site (within a [...]

Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 19:01 | 0 comments
Categories: SharePoint, WSS 3.0

RSS Viewer web part is another OOTB feature which people are willing to use. At the very initial  setup stage, there are few issues attached with this. This article is for explaining you how to install and setup the RSS web part into SharePoint portal.
Open SharePoint site and click on Edit Page under Site Action. [...]

Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 15:28 | 1 comment

Business Data Catalog, in short we call it as BDC, is one of the major collaboration mechanism in SharePoint. BDC has been used broadly by enterprise system to bridge between other legacy systems with SharePoint.  For example, collaborate between Siebel data into SharePoint. Users in SharePoint should able to find the contacts which are present [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 02:00 | 2 comments
Categories: BDC, SharePoint