Mostly work based scribblings in an attempt to remember what I've actually done.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Adding Keywords column part 1

http://dan-gallo.blogspot.com/2009/01/adding-lookup-list-column-to-sharepoint.html
Thanks to this I now have my keywords column- however when a keyword is clicked on it just takes you back to the sodding keyword custom list. Next step- stop it doing that and instead make clicking on it bring up all pages tagged with that keyword.

Sunday, 26 September 2010

My articles












Playing with the front page now in prep for launch of knowledge base, and thought this would be a cute addition.

To do it, create a view of the knowledge base wiki with the fololowing:

sort by modified in descending

filter by equal to [Me] or modified by equal to [Me]

display 5 items in batches


Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Sharepoint Designer

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&displaylang=en

Seems really good- have a go at CSS styles to make look shiny.

Changing urls of pages in Sharepoint Designer

http://vspug.com/toth/2007/10/31/using-named-anchors-in-sharepoint-wiki-pages/

"Open your site in SharePoint Designer. This will display all the doc libs in the Folder List view. Right Click the doc lib for which you want to change the URL. Select “Rename” and rename the doc lib. This new name will be used in the URL. Dont worry if Designer doesn’t give you an option to save your changes. Renaming has already changed the URL for you. Go and check if you dont believe me :) .

Moreover, Name for your doc lib remains the same (old one) on the quick launch. If you go to Site Actions -> View All Site Content, you will see the new name given to your doc lib. If you think that name should be the same on Quick Launch and in “View All Site Content” listing for consistency, simply go to Doc Lib Settings, click “Title, description and navigation” link and give any name to your doc lib (like the one on the quick launch) in the “Name” field. This will not change the URL.

If you open the site in designer now, you will see something like this:

Doc Lib URL name (Doc Lib Name/Title)…………………………………..confused? :)

Examples are great:
HR Mgmt (HR Management)

Where “HR Mgmt” is used in the URL to keep it short and HR Management is used as the Name/Title of doc lib on the quick launch."

Monday, 16 August 2010

Look at default views shared folders

Wikis in Sharepoint 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-sharepoint-services-help/create-a-wiki-HA010226177.aspx#BM4

Stuff you can do:

link to other pages
upload images
other stuff

Microsoft KB (steal ideas)

http://support.microsoft.com/ph/13615/en-gb

Especially:

Key resources

Popular articles

Top solutions

Links to other sources

Taxonomy bother

Frankly creating a scalable taxonomy is a pain in the ass. So far:

Dept
Team
Knowledge type-
How To Remedy Referal
How To Fix
General Info
Procedure

To do:

Look at broadcast system and blogs for somewhere to stick temp fixes to be linked to from general pages on services/ systems.

Awesome film to find and watch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244666/

Fish Story

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.

Friday, 30 July 2010

Getting somewhere?

I am very much a novice with stuff like this, and it's basically taken me a whole day to get my head around how to create a bit of a web form in Sharepoint 2007.

This bit uses the Connected Lookup field from http://cl.codeplex.com/ .

What I wanted was a list containing Depts and teams within them where only the teams within a dept would show when you selected the dept when uploading content.

To do this I made a list containing the following fields:

team
dept

Then I went to my sharepoint wiki page and created a new column for dept:

Title: Department
Get info from: the list I made above
parent column: none
Value column: Department
broadcast: yes

Then another column for team

Title: Team
Get info from: the list I made above
parent column: Department
Value column: Team
broadcast: yes









Monday, 28 June 2010

Motivational thought to get through the week

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot" - Groucho Marx.

Thursday, 24 June 2010