Monthly Archives: March 2009

Renaming Title back to Title…

I have just done this for a second time at a client’s site. Got a list, using content types, want to have the Title field appear in the list as something different (in my case, Question). So I happily rename … Continue reading

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Fishing an ItemID from a URL – the easy way

I’ve recently started to follow Jeremy Jameson’s blog – He knows lots about MOSS and the associated technologies, and he always seems to be coming up with little “gems” of information. The post that led me to his blog was … Continue reading

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Found a way to “Address” a SharePoint field using JavaScript

One of the things that makes it a bit tough working with SharePoint pages is the fact that you cannot predict what the form fields will be called. They get random names like ctl00$m$g_b38c402f_5254_4ae1_8677_39beff22ef48$ctl00$ctl02$ctl00$ctl01$ctl00$ctl00$ctl02$ctl00$ctl00$ctl04$ctl00$ctl00$TextField and they change every time you … Continue reading

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Hamlet, Act 2 scene 2 (Oh how I hate Daylight Savings, TimeZones, and the fact XML can’t deliver a date format JavaScript understands)

 Yes, while working onsite at a Client’s place I’ve been getting my hands all icky with code… I scrub and I scrub but all of the ocean’s waters won’t wash this code from my hands. Anyway, the point of this … Continue reading

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All my life, I’ve wanted a consistent Menu system…

Up until now, menu systems for MOSS had to be built if you created new site collections that resided below the “parent” site (Parent in a URL-hierarchal sense). The team at RDA have released a few projects, but by far … Continue reading

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