Posted February 27th, 2009 by Eric Webb
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.
Posted January 20th, 2009 by Eric Webb
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 [...]
Posted January 17th, 2009 by Eric Webb
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 [...]
Posted January 7th, 2009 by Eric Webb
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 [...]
Posted December 3rd, 2008 by Eric Webb
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 [...]
Posted March 28th, 2008 by Eric Webb
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, [...]