Sep
13
2011
SharePoint 2007 contains a lot of options for security configuration. In larger site collections, it is very easy to loose the overview of how the security in your site collections is configured. Publishing parts of the content in your site collections for anonymous users, makes this even harder. And if you grant your power users …
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Sep
15
2009
My CodePlex site contains a new product called Security Blueprints. I have created this for one of our customers and made some enhancements to it. They allowed me to publish this as open source project (thank you for that!). I hope the solution can help you as it helps them and I hope you like …
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Sep
12
2009
This article describes how to install the Security Blueprints in your SharePoint environment. The first step is to install the solution package. After you have done this, this article shows you how to configure the security blueprints. The last part of this article describes how you can manually start the process for 1 site collection. …
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Aug
23
2009
In one of my recent projects I used some JQuery to change the width of a mulitvalued lookup field in SharePoint and to hide the Workspace field in an event list. The script to change the width of multivalued lookup fields: <script type=”text/javascript”> $(document).ready(function() { $(“select[id*='<INSERT_YOUR_FIELDNAME>']“).parent().width(300); $(“select[id*='<INSERT_YOUR_FIELDNAME>']“).parent().height(200); $(“select[id*='<INSERT_YOUR_FIELDNAME>']“).width(300); }); </script> When the lookup list has …
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May
22
2009
For our e-office intranet I was working on a number of page layouts. In this page layout I wanted to use the out of the box Page Field Filter web part. After creating a new page using that page layout, the page crashed immediatly, showing the error message “An unexpected error has occurred”. After switching …
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May
21
2009
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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Mar
29
2009
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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Mar
10
2009
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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Mar
09
2009
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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