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Mark Arend

SHAREPOINT
TIPS & TECHNIQUES
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July 2006 - Posts

News Aggregator web part
This topic describes a way to configure SharePoint elements for displaying headlines and abstracts from news articles, aggregated across many sites. Also a description of customizing the page layout of the news article is given. Displaying the news headlines: Read More...
Workflow Tips (Part II - Collect Feedback)
Collecting feedback from a user as part of a workflow is easily configurable out of the box, but may not be quite intuitive at first pass. Here’s a simple explanation of how to get values back from the user as part of a workflow step, then use those values Read More...
Workflow Tips (Part I - Configurable Approvers)
Using SharePoint Designer (SPD), it’s possible to create a workflow that can look up a user’s identity from a SharePoint list in order to send email to the user and collect feedback from the user. This technique can be used to make a workflow more flexible, Read More...
Remote Library web part (Part II - Implementation)
This topic discusses using a DataForm web part to show a view of a document library on another site. This section gives instructions for creating the web part. For a high-level description of this web part, see http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2006/07/16/667490.aspx Read More...
Remote Library web part (Part I - Overview)
This topic discusses using a DataForm web part to show a view of a document library on another site. This overview demonstrates how the Remote Library looks and works. Displaying the default view of a document library. The DataForm web part has been modified Read More...
Very quick intro to portal/search concepts for SPS 2003 people
The term “Area” is no longer used in MOSS 2007. Areas were implemented as subsites, however, and it is still possible to create subsites on the Portal. The ability to manage the hierarchy and navigation of subsites replaces the ability to reorganize Topic Read More...
Developing custom workflows using Visual Studio 2005 - Getting started
The beta 2 SDKs both have lots of information including walkthroughs on this subject. Download the SDK installers from : WSS v3 Beta 2 SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en Read More...
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