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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
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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 EUCCA
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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
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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
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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
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Use the SetFormsServiceProperty operation as follows: stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn <option name> -pv <option value> Option Names: DefaultDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionResponseSize RequireSslForDataConnections
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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) A XEUDA
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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 ID ContentTypeId {03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634}
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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
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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 version
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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
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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 a major
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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
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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
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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
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