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Official release of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Today Microsoft and HiSoftware have released the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint. This is great news as it has been quite while coming. For those that don't know it is a set of master pages, controls, and web parts as well as all the technical do.....
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MOSS2007 – Web Part Properties (Part 2)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
In my last post we looked at creating web part properties that would be available to the users via the standard tool pane. This approach worked well but had a few limitations. To read this post click this link: http://www.helloitsliam.com/archiv.....
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MOSS2007 – Web part Properties (Part 1)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
As part of my personal project I have been looking into ways of exposing properties for the "Users" of the web part to modify. For the web part I am developing I need to expose quite a few properties. A few of these are: Field NameField T.....
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Sign that made me *chuckle*
Categories: General
This past week I have the opportunity to work out in Athens, Greece doing some MOSS2007 design work. The weather has been perfect, well for a person from the UK, 19-21 degrees is great!! I can see the beach from my Hotel and can walk to it within .....
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My personal web part project *update*
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
In one of my last posts I talked about a personal project I am working on. This web part is one that I am building as a replacement or enhancement for the Content Query Web Part. The idea behind this was to create a web part that works the same but .....
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MOSS2007 – Link Lists and the Content Query Web part
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
As most of you have probably found when you use link lists within SharePoint and then try to consume them within a CQWP, they do not display correctly. Normally when you try to consume a list or library within a CQWP the "Title" field is.....
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Microsoft Launch SharePointPedia
Categories: SharePoint, Office System 2007
Hi, I meant to post this yesterday but didn't get internet access tom post it until late last night so I am posting it now. Yesterday was the day that after some testing, SharePointPedia has now been launched. "SharePointPedia" is a Shar.....
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MOSS2007 / WSS – Building a web part
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Over the past few months of so I have spent a lot of time working with the Content Query Web Part (CQWP). I have to say it is a very powerful web part that is great for consuming data that exists within a site collection. However once you move to .....
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MOSS2007 – Weird SQL Reporting Error
Categories: Office System 2007, SharePoint
Recently I installed a custom application that is built on SharePoint 2007. The base of the application is built around an extensive SQL Database, with lots of custom pages and custom web parts. The application also uses SQL Reporting Servers for .....
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