I have been getting emails from lots of you wanting the goods -- the real life examples of End User Composed Composites (EUCCs), and more information on the how and why of designing them... Unfortunately I haven't been blogging about EUCCs for a while...

Hey, I'm talking about EUCCAs and Versatilities. My last couple of blog posts are my personal crusade to get SharePoint architects and developers to focus on the most productive way (in my opinion) to use SharePoint as an application platform. A...

Reusable components. A lot of work and effort and thought has been put into reusable components... OK, so let's talk about a specific type of reusable components... let's talk furniture design and Versatilities. There is a certain Scandinavian furniture...

If you have had the pleasure of working in the SharePoint Universe for a while, then hopefully you have had a chance to see lots and lots of examples of the incredible applications that end-users assemble in SharePoint all by themselves - without the...

The difference between Content and Code, and between Publishing and Code Deployment, can be a very difficult thing for the Stakeholders in an Enterprise SharePoint implementation to grasp. So for what it is worth, I recently told a client the following...

Use the SetFormsServiceProperty operation as follows: stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn <option name> -pv <option value> Option Names: DefaultDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionResponseSize...

There is an emergent solution architecture which the most ingenious of our end users are piecing together without our help. It is an architecture without a name - so let's give it one: the eXtreme End-User Driven Architecture or XEUDA (zoo-da) ...

Much used reprinting of list of fields with internal names for easy reference: Document Library fields Display Name Internal Name GUID Type ID ID {1d22ea11-1e32-424e-89ab-9fedbadb6ce1} Counter Content Type...

Working on a project with some very large InfoPath forms (700+ fields with hundreds of rules and conditions etc.) running out of a SharePoint Forms library using the InfoPath client (not Forms Server) and which take over a minute to load. In addition...

When you load an InfoPath form, it is cached in the following location on your machine: C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\InfoPath\FormCache2 When a new version of the form is detected, such as when a new...

Variations is a potentially great MOSS feature. Variations are obviously useful for multi-lingual sites, but also anytime a company wants to replicate a number of customer or partner sites, variations can automate the production and customization of those...

I have found that the following two issues can be critically important when architecting a catalog style WCM site: 1. The intention to use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to roll up lower level detail pages to higher level summary pages can have...

If you are going to create custom content types and custom layout pages, then for Variations (multilingual sites in MOSS07) to work, you currently are required to create custom site definitions with your custom content types built in. The reason for...

There is more info on Content Deployment issues in earlier blog entries here. The main thing is to first install SP1 and KBs 941422, 948945 and 950279, and 952698 and 952704 (these last two may rollup all the changes in the earlier KBs, I am trying...

Maybe I'm missing a hotfix or something, but SharePoint Designer seems to have a lot of problems with Check-ins and Check-outs. Often it shows a file as checked out when it is actually checked in and vice versa. Sometimes closing SD and opening the site...

Particularly when working on a MOSS Web Content Management site, you may find the need to go to the Style Library in the browser. But you'll find that there isn't a link in Site Settings. This is a tough one - just navigate to: http://<yoursite>...

When you have Quick Deployment job, and you edit a page and add it to Quick Deployment, the job appears in a list called: Quick Deploy Items Go to: http://<mysite>/Quick Deploy Items to view it. If Quick Deploy is failing, you can go to...

Was able to work through an interesting content deployment issue on a medium SharePoint farm with the help of the following kb: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947285 All Content Deployment Jobs were failing and the error in the event log indicated...

As of February 11, 2008, there is a version 1.1 of the SharePoint Visual Studio tools that can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en Note: Cannot be installed...

Version 1.3 of the WSS v3 SDK can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en And the MOSS SDK can be downloaded here (covers and includes WSS v3, you don't...

For localization in SharePoint to work, a particular site must be created specifying the designated language. In order to create a site for a particular language, you must first install the language pack for that language. Therefore, begin your multilingual...

Been working on multilingual for a few clients, and recently did a quick survey of public MOSS07 sites that are using Variations for multilingual, including: Swiss International Airlines Migros Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

This is one of those extremely useful little tidbits that doesn't seem to be all that well documented... If, for instance, on a internet facing site, you want to hide the login control etc at the top of the page, just wrap the sharepoint Login div...

Memory usage is a big deal when you are deploying new web parts or applications - mainly because you need to see if you have any memory leaks - which mostly stems from not Disposing of your SPWeb and SPSite objects properly... The easiest way to see...

The terms Ghosted, Unghosted and now Reghosted are very difficult to keep straight, and you'll find that even members of the SharePoint product team confuse them from time to time. Ghosted means that the Site Definition pages have Not been Customized...