Ton Stegeman
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Today I was looking at the Board of Directors template, which is one of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates (also known as the fabulous 40). This template contains an event calendar for board events. When you add a new board event to that list, a SharePoint Designer workflow creates a new Meeting minutes …
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A number of customers have asked us to change the behavior of the Close button in an announcement. The default behavior is that when the user clicks the Close button, he is redirected to the default view of the list. Unless the querystring contains the ‘Source’ parameter. The user is then redirected to the value …
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In my current project one of the requirements was to add navigation to SharePoint wiki’s. We defined a number of rules that drive the navigation and that are not important for this post. In this post I will describe how I added the navigation controls to the page. Before I started I thought it was …
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Thanks to all people who organized it this year, the SharePoint MVPs were invited for the traditional paintball at the MVP Summit. This year we were playing a different field from last year. We were at Ft. Lewis. Because I was not playing, I had more than enough time for some picture. The rest of …
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I keep forgetting how to do this, so I decided to write it down. In SharePoint workflows created with Visual Studio you can easily write to the history list. This makes it easier to troubleshoot your workflows. Helper methods First I create 2 static helper methods that do the work for me. public static class …
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I was looking at the Redirect method in the SPUtility class. Besides the url, this method also takes a parameter of type SPRedirectFlags. I was wondering when to use the values of this enumeration. The MSDN documentation does help a bit, but not very much. I asked on Twitter if anyone knew the meaning of …
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In my current SharePoint project we are building a mixed knowledge sharing / collaboration solution in MOSS. Each site collection is based on the MOSS Collaboration Portal template. Collaboration is supported in a number of different types of workspaces. Each type of workspace has it’s own start site. This site contains a SharePoint list with …
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For one of the projects that I am working on, we had to store some additional configuration on audiences. After reading the instruction and warning by Robin, I decided the Hierarchical Object Store was the place to save the configuration. Instead of persisting one object, I had to save a number of objects. Inspired by …
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This is the final part of a series on Silverlight development in SharePoint. In the first part I have described how to solution works for a user and how to prepare your SharePoint server and development machine for Silverlight development. The second post describes how to create the WCF service that gets the news items …
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This is the 3rd part in a small series on Silverlight development for SharePoint. In part 1 I have introduced the Silverlight News web part and showed you how to prepare your server(s) for Silverlight. The 2nd part shows how to create and install the WCF service that will search for the news items. In …
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