August 12, 2008
A Nice Quick-start for SharePoint Site Design
Introduction to building SharePoint applications
If you’ve dived somewhat into the deep end with SharePoint 3.0 or MOSS 2007, you may find locating where and how to start with designing and deploying custom solutions somewhat bewildering. Most of the books I’ve worked with touch only lightly on creating really custom sites that integrate forms, e-mail, workflows and such; this despite the average weight of these texts being between six and eight hundred pages. Fortunately a good overview of just this topic can be found on-line.
While browsing old entries in the Help and How-to weblog for Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, I came across this document which describes the process and some of the techniques used in creating the template SharePoint applications available for download from Microsoft. It’s a bit longer read than most weblog entries, or indeed most web pages, but definitely worth it if you’re presently staring at a SharePoint site and a copy of SharePoint Designer and wondering what to do next.
Filed under: Web Tools, SharePoint and SharePoint Designer.
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April 06, 2008
InfoPath and SharePoint Groups
I haven’t posted much about software here for quite a while. Been to busy soaking in it to write much about it. From Bits of SharePoint we have this timely post: Get User Collection from a SharePoint Group. In amongst a great deal of work trying to get an InfoPath form to populate its controls from an SQL Server table while posting its results to a SharePoint list all managed by InfoPath Forms Services — about which more later — I also found myself wanting a drop-down list of site users. Unfortunately, while the post might point me in the right direction, it’s not all the way there. I need a list of domain users within particular AD groups. The process described in the post appears to be relevant only to SharePoint groups.
Filed under Web Tools, SharePoint, MOSS 2007 and InfoPath.
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June 16, 2005
Dreamweaver to Hang-up No More?
On occasion when I’ve started up Dreamweaver, version 7.0.1, it has completely hung up. The application would start, the startup page would be presented and I would touch anything in the file pane and that would be the last I’d hear from Dreamweaver until windows shut it down and I restarted it at which point the problem would typically not recur for a few cycles.
Now I’ve come to believe that the trouble lies in the start page, shown right, itself. Since I’ve disabled the start page I have had no trouble with Dreamweaver hanging on start up. I haven’t had time to look into why this would be. When it’s hung I’ve noted that the content in the lower right pane, it’s a flash app that always seems to be exhorting me to attend a seminar, isn’t showing up. Perhaps it’s tripping up on loading flash? That would be a bit embarrassing wouldn’t it?
Filed under Web Tools and Dreamweaver.
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June 08, 2005
Dreamweaver Suffering from Seizures?
Yet another odd Dreamweaver behavior, though at least this one hasn’t proved fatal: I was innocently downloading a few files using Firefox (no really, they’re just CUPS documents) with Dreamweaver (version 7.0.1) peacefully resting in the background when all of a sudden its files panel started madly blinking refreshing over and over again. Seems a bit odd considering that I wasn’t touching any directories that contain any of its sites. Does it go into this dance whenever anything on the volume changes? Hardly seems likely does it? More study is indicated.
Filed under Web Tools.
Posted by eric at 11:36 AM | Comments (0)
March 22, 2005
Just a Little Cosmetic Work
Spent a fair amount of my limited research time budget on further work with Flash MX and Maya (a personal indulgence). No great new profound discoveries, mostly just figuring out how to say things in ActionScript, figuring out variable scoping rules, when strings and ints get automagically converted and mangled etc.
Did get a chance to do some more work on the style sheet for the blog. It's looking a little less generic and out of the box no? I'm trying to slowly edge toward a look based on the recent Solaris remake. I kinda liked the blue streamlined æsthetic the computer art director employed in the film. In fact I enjoyed that version much better than the Tarkovsky original. (Though if you enjoy watching ten minutes of drop-in footage of Osaka -- with no dialog, character development or plot advancement -- as well as many other like indulgences, by all means rent his version. Donatas Banionis who plays Kelvin and Natalya Bondarchuk who plays Hari, as opposed to Rheya, are both very good.)
Posted by eric at 11:52 PM | Comments (0)
November 11, 2004
Posting Glitch Fixed
The cause of the glitch that resulted in Perl squawk...
Prototype mismatch: sub Params::Validate::validate_pos vs (\@@) at /.../mt/extlib/Params/ValidatePP.pm line 139.
Prototype mismatch: sub Params::Validate::validate vs (\@$) at /.../mt/extlib/Params/ValidatePP.pm line 370.
...spewing on posting confirmation pages was indeed a mismatch between the local perl version and the Params::Validate module included in the MovableType distribution. Steps to fix on FreeBSD:
make installin /usr/ports/devel/p5-Params-Validaterm -rf Paramsin <mt CGI dir>/extlib
Thanks to Ian Young for posting his notes about this problem.
Posted by eric at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2004
We're Up
Installed MovableType on the FreeBSD/Apache server and with remarkably little trouble. The only glitch was ensuring that the load script was flagged as executable before running it (and I was warned about that anyway).
Now to start poking about and see how it all works.
Update: One glitch I've run into is that when a comment is posted, the post confirmation page exposes a bit of Perl efluent in the form of the error messages
Prototype mismatch: sub Params::Validate::validate_pos vs (\@@) at /s0/home/webserve/WebRoot/mt/extlib/Params/ValidatePP.pm line 139.
Prototype mismatch: sub Params::Validate::validate vs (\@$) at /s0/home/webserve/WebRoot/mt/extlib/Params/ValidatePP.pm line 370.
Apparently this is due to a conflict between ye olde version of Perl and its core libraries that I'm running on the server and the version of Params::Validate that comes with MovableType (Ref. http://www.iay.org.uk/blog/2004/09/ thx).
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