SharePoint Webpart Styling

I always wondered how to style a single webpart on the page. http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx Been dealing with CSS for a long time and never knew about attribute selectors.  Only issue is you can’t be in Quirks mode, which does mess up the rendering of some elements in SharePoint.

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Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 Upgrade thoughts

I just completed a medium sized upgrade (83GB) for a client from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 and thought I’d share a few things I took away from it: You’re probably going to need to create a new Site Definition to map to the old one if the old one is customized at all Set expectations [...]

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New Sharepoint Book

Here’s a new Sharepoint book that my manager Sean McDonough and John Ferringer co-wrote: SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide Book Description: Microsoft’s SharePoint technology gives organizations access to a wide range of tools and functionality designed to encourage collaboration, manage documents, discover shared knowledge, and much more. As the use of these resources through SharePoint [...]

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Welcome Page Updater

During a recent uprade from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007, I noticed that some of the sites’ welcome pages weren’t getting set correctly. For some reason, they were set to UpgLandingPgRedir.aspx, which redirected to nowhere. Very convenient; must be a feature. Here’s a piece of code I wrote that looks at every weclome page in your [...]

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Infopath Item Level Security

Man it’s been awhile since I posted last.  Since nobody reads this, I guess it doesn’t matter. Item level security on Infopath forms has been bugging me awhile.  It should be easy to set permissions for a form in the form library by using Rules or some other method.  However, that’s not the case. You [...]

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Sharepoint

I’ve been meaning to post my thoughts about my recent foray into Sharepoint for awhile now and since I finally have some time, here goes. Development on Sharepoint sucks if you’re not doing it directly on the server. -I can’t even count the number of hours I’ve spent copying a .cab file to the server, [...]

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