Monthly Archives: July 2009

Duplicate people results in Search

I’ve fallen for this twice in the last few months now – when you set up a search source for SharePoint 2007 Server, you do not need to separately index the User profiles on My Sites – if you do, … Continue reading

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Setting up a Project Status Rollup dashboard – The Easy Way

I’ve been working on a project at a clients site and a request came through from the Program Manager to have a reporting dashboard where the management team could quickly see: A list of project statuses collected from all project … Continue reading

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Sites built on SharePoint

This is a great reference when talking to clients who say "But SharePoint looks so bad out of the box, and it’s so hard to customise it"! There’s a few hundred there, but I got bored counting it. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/Resources/AllItems.aspx, and … Continue reading

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Uploading large files fails (2003 and 2008)

When you attempt to upload a large file in Sharepoint, you may receive errors relating to timeouts, 404s etc.   To resolve this, make the following changes:   By default, the maximum size for uploading files is set to 50 … Continue reading

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No More Spam from SharePoint Designer! (Infinite “On-change” loops are fixed)

Finally. After years of creating new workflows, running a test, only to have the CIO come into me and say "Hmm Brad I’ve received 200 emails in the last minute asking me to approve this task – could you look into … Continue reading

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Hover (MouseOver) Highlight and Click to stay highlighted in a SharePoint list…

While I was working in CustomWare I had the great pleasure of working with a guy called Sukri, a SharePoint developer. He’s the kind of guy you’d mention something to, and it would tick over in the back of his … Continue reading

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