Monthly Archives: November 2009

Using MOSS 2007 search to groups SharePoint 2003 results by facets

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In large organizations it’s hard to make an easy transition to a newer version of a product. In a scenario I am involved with right now – there is SPS 2003 and SharePoint 2007; client wants to take advantage of … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, sharepoint | Tagged faceted search, search sharepoint 2003, sharepoint | 2 Comments

Extending SharePoint search with protocol handlers

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: you have SharePoint 2007 site with search center as a part of it and you have been asked to integrate company`s document management system with sharepoint search. In other words, your document management system has to … Continue reading →

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Useful SPUtility tips and tricks

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

There are many useful functions in SPUtility class that you may want to use in your code. When I was looking at how my custom solutions are going to be migrated to SharePoint 2010 – I noticed few obvious problems and … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, sharepoint | Tagged Ensure Site Admin Access, EnsureSiteAdminAccess, Get All Authenticated Users, GetAllAuthenticatedUsers, sharepoint, sputility | Comments Off

Accessing SharePoint lookup field values

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When you design a list structure in your SharePoint solution quite often you want to make things easy and configurable and what`s the better way to reference data from other list than using a Lookup field. Later on when working … Continue reading →

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Hosting public sites on SharePoint Server 2007

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

MOSS for Internet Sites is being used by a number of industry-leading organizations across the globe. Two of my co-workers, Ben Skelton and Jasvir Shukla have prepared a 200 level webcast for Technet to take an in-depth look at how … Continue reading →

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Changing default behavior of buttons on SharePoint list item form

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Out of the box SharePoint comes with default list item forms and few articles ago I was going over how to customize them to include your content and logic. As you will learn or already have learned from the article … Continue reading →

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Setting custom SharePoint item new/edit/view pages

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article I looked how you can customize the masterpage of SharePoint list item form pages (edit/view/new). This is particularly helpful when you need to create a print view for display.aspx or have additional webpart zones and webparts … Continue reading →

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