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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:41 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Quote of the Day web part now in the wild!

I have a couple hundred people on the email list that requested the Quote of the Day web part. It went out as part of today’s EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Tips and Tricks newsletter. I’d like to track how you are implementing it and where Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:21 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: SilverLight and SharePoint - does it work?

The question of the day comes from Yongwei Xing in Shanghai: I searched on the Internet and only found a web part that can be used to show a document in a SilverLight. But if I write a SilverLight by myself, I want to show my SilverLight in MOSS. What Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:45 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Permissions on Workflow

I had a little email correspondance with Suzanne to solve a permission issue that I thought might be of interest. Here’s the entire exchange, in sequence. Suzanne wrote: I understand the workflow process, but I need assistance on the best way to Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:17 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I use a calculated column as a lookup value?

The question of the day comes from Toby in the UK: Does anyone know how to get it so I can have a Lookup field that uses a calculated field in another table? My requirements is to create a concatenated name from first name and last name in Contacts (not Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:21 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I save searches as links?

The question of the day comes from Chris: Do you know of a way users can save searches as links? Chris - The basic search is a ‘get’ in the URL, so setup the search, click the search button and then copy the URL to use as the href in the link Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:18 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I do multiple Gantt views of a single project list?

I was looking through some of the questions on the SharePointU forums and came across a question about multiple Gantt views against a single set of data. It seemed like a quick solution to demo, so I’ve inserted a screencast below. The Project Task Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, February 25, 2008 2:37 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: How do I redefine the default location for saving files?

One of the interesting features in the major MS Word Applications is the ability to define where the “Save” or “Save As…” button points upon initially saving a file. By default, it usually points to “My Documents“ Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:14 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Bug or a feature - calendar changes from English to Hebrew?

This comes from Doug Taylor: I my last 2 SharePoint training classes we saw, and were able to replicate the following: User notes that Calendar initially shows time in US West Coast time. Wants to change it. User navigates to Welcome menu, My Settings Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, February 15, 2008 8:32 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Where are all my web parts?

The question of the day comes from Brian in Switzerland: There is a Content Query Web Part, but we don’t have it available in our sites. I think that is exactly what we are looking for to accomplish [a specific task]? How can we get it? Brian - If you Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:13 PM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Inability to export a list to Excel (2003)

The question of the day comes from Charlie in New York: My company is getting paralyzed by the inability to export a list to an Excel (2003) spreadsheet due to the error: “Cannot get the list schema column property from the Sharepoint list” Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:33 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Update on creating a desktop shortcut to a SharePoint library

In a previous post, I outlined the steps for creating a desktop shortcut so that you could drag and drop files to and from a document library. This is one of the easiest ways to get End User buy in when first rolling out SharePoint. While going through Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:11 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Default image sizes in SharePoint

Doug from California writes: We noticed an issue with SharePoint. We created a meeting workspace and then added a Contact Details webpart to the site page. When we modify any webpart on the page the image will resize itself on its own. To fix, we simply Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:16 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Tricks and Traps 2008-02-11

Many people don’t realize it, but you can work in a SharePoint library without opening SharePoint. Let’s say that you have published an Excel workbook to your document library. You can now close down SharePoint and manage that file from within Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, February 11, 2008 4:58 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I save a view and use it in another library?

The question of the day comes from Susan in Kansas: I have document libraries (different ones) that I store videos for the different applications that I train on, i.e., Word, Excel, etc. I created a library to store my flash files and want to do this Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:08 AM

EndUserSharePoint.com: Check In - bug or feature?

The question of the day comes from Doug in California: I’ve tracked down and confirmed consistently that I’m seeing an issue with Check In/Out. It is repeatable. User creates new or uses existing Document Library. Library contains a required Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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