Monthly Archives: June 2011

Automating SharePoint 2010 list view configuration

SharePoint list views are one of the key components using which users will interact with your lists as they use the site. Quite often, when new organizational policy kicks in – you may be asked to modify lists on your … Continue reading

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Automatically provisioning SharePoint 2010 content types

SharePoint content types help to standardise the use of business content on the site. The concept is simple – you define a set of site columns, put them together is a signle or few content types and there you have … Continue reading

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Automatically provisioning SharePoint related lists

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create a list relationship and identify relationship behavior when items from related list get deleted. Your options are to either: restrict the delete of items on which other items depend on or cascade delete all … Continue reading

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Automatic SharePoint list provisioning

Lists and libraries are used everywhere in SharePoint, and as your site is being used by your business users, they are likely to want you to add new lists and modify existing ones. Unfortunately, those changes would have to be … Continue reading

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Reporting on external data using SharePoint 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could report on data stored by legacy application you have in-house for years. We’ll, if you’re running SharePoint, you can take advantage of your investment in the platform to now allow the reporting on … Continue reading

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Automatically provisioning your SharePoint 2010 custom workflows

In SharePoint 2010 it’s way easier to create a custom workflow and deploy it to the site. But, deploying a workflow to the site is not the end of the story. If you’re creating a list workflow – you will … Continue reading

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SharePoint Branding: switching stylesheet based on browser capabilities

When branding SharePoint site, especially for older browsers, you will often want to provide flexible user experience depending on the type of browser your site visitors are using. As you’ve seen in my branding book, extending SharePoint controls can help … Continue reading

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Setting SharePoint 2010 managed site themes automatically

Few weeks ago, in my SharePoint branding screencast serries, we looked at how you can create site themes and provision them to the site. But what if you already have a site with site theme and want to apply it … Continue reading

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DevTeach 2011 in Montreal: it’s a wrap!

Thanks everyone who attended my 2 sessions at DevTeach in Montreal; hopefully you had fun, as I did. Btw, here is the source to the one of the samples we used. If you haven’t had a chance to attend – … Continue reading

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