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A stigmergic trail of SharePoint, asp.net and Silverlight Solutions

May 2008 - Posts

Variations without Custom Site Definitions
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 this Read More...
Content Deployment Debugging Links
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 to Read More...
SharePoint Designer Check-in and Check-out and Publishing
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 Read More...
Style Library shortcut
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>/Style Read More...
Non Obvious Details about Content Deployment
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 this list Read More...
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