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Lee's Knowledge Base for SharePoint
 
I plan to use this site to capture my and other's knowledge about SharePoint.  The primary tools will be this WIKI and the MOSS Library.  Here is the TOC:

 MOSS Library (click on "Type" icon to open)
DescriptionFilter
TamingCalculatedColumns.pdfTaming the Elusive Calculated Column
Dessie Lunsford has written a series of articles on the calculated column.  For those who have been following the series, you already realize how valuable these case studies are.
moss_css_reference.pdfMOSS CSS Reference Guide
A style sheet reference guide for MOSS prepared by Heather Soloman.

 Articles
Creating Dynamic Breadcrumbs in SharePoint ASPX Pages
Describes techniques for creating a dynamic breadcrumb, which will change to represent the logical structure of the site.
Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders
This article describes how “Power” End Users and Developers alike can use SharePoint Designer to create an automated task reminder system based on SharePoint’s core workflow capability. 
Setting up a PDF iFilter on SharePoint
This prerelease software will allow a server administrator to configure the current 32-bit PDF IFilter so that it may be used with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Adding PDF icons to WSS 3.0

So if you don't want that pesky default blank paper icon to show up next to your PDF files in your libraries or search results, do the following:

Hyperlinks in SharePoint document libraries
The idea is rather simple: Integrate documents in your library without actually having to store them there by placing hyperlinks in SharePoint document libraries .
SharePoint folders and metadata
How to create folders that can save metadata attributes as part of their properties.
Adding multiple time displays to a page
This article shows how to add multiple animateed clocks to a page.  More interestingly it uses a technique of including javascript at a page level. (original in German - Google Translate Version)
Rollup Content Across Multiple Site Collections
Article describes using common metadata (site columns) across several site collections andd then leveraging search on the parent site to expose the common content.  VERY GOOD!
Apply color coding to your SharePoint lists
Color coding is very useful to highlight key items in a list. For example in an issues list, you may want to draw the users’ attention on items with high priority.
A progress bar for your tasks list
Details how to show the progress of your tasks in SharePoint usiong a colored bar.
SharePoint Image Search - Pt 4 (of 4)
How to create an image search center on a MOSS site. The goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page.
Using LyteBox to create no code web parts with the CEWP

The use of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License javascript library called LyteBox. This library allows you to incorporate some pretty cool effects into SharePoint using a simple content editor web part to give users a Web 2.0 feel to training content.

Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz
How-to with some interesting requirements. Part 2
Performing joins between SharePoint lists
Demonstrates how to join data from 2 simple lists on a web report type page using SPD.
Building a blog host
Article on the pattern for a "Blog Host". A site collection that contains many blog sites.
Add a SharePoint list toolbar to a Data View
Using Designer to add the SharePoint list toolbar to the Data View so that you can work more effectively with the underlying list or library.
Creating a SharePoint 2007 Theme
A quick rundown of how to get started creating a theme and then customize it using CSS.
How to remove the "title" column from a Sharepoint list
Often, site admins want their audiences to click on "New Item" in a Sharepoint list and not have to fill out the default 'Title' column content type.  This article will show you how to remove this from the view.
Customize the NewForm.aspx
Have you ever wanted to change the fields presented in a form? Here's a nice step by step.
Top 100 SharePoint Blogs
from Joel Osen - automated pull
Create Access forms and reports from a SharePoint list

You can create forms and reports from a SharePoint list and use them as views. Users of the SharePoint site who have Access 2007 installed can open these forms and reports by using the View menu of the SharePoint list. You can make an Access view the default view for a list.

Video 0n Inserting Video to SharePoint Blog
SharePoint by default filters the embed code from the rich text fields. This video shows a workaround for this problem
Code & Tutorial for inserting video
Tiny Calendar web part
How to query cross-site lists in DataFormWebPart

Problem - We have a site which contains many sub-sites. On this site we want to use DataFormWebPart to display all the pages in Pages library of all sub-sites.

SharePoint Community Content - Where to find it
Great blog post on what is out there online in the SharePoint community.  Discusses everything from blogs to discussion groups, and the Twitter community.  Incudes links to rss feeds and a aggregator sites.  This is a must read.
OneNote & SharePoint Integration
One page article outlining use of
codePlex tool to publish OneNote pages,, also cover OOTB integration capabilities.  Nice Primer.
Rotating Pictures, Random Pictures

Many web sites have pictures that keep changing while the page is displayed. If you were doing ASP.NET development you might use the AdRotator control to do this. You can find some custom web parts that can be installed on your web server to do this.

But… I wanted a way to do this with no C# programming, no server deployment issues and even without SharePoint Designer. This is yet another Content Editor Web Part trick!

 Other Sharepoint Sites
Blog
Heather Solomon
Specializing in SharePoint branding, layout and usability
Andrew Connell
Specializing in advice on SharePoint and Content Mgmt.
DataformWebpart.com
DataFormWebPart.com is place for Mike Mongeau to share his SharePoint Designer knowledge and experience. There are (or will be) how-to’s, best practices, fixes and workarounds, and anything else he can think up related to “SPD”.
Jose Barreto's Blog
These are the top-of-mind issues and random thoughts of Jose Barreto, a member of the Storage Solutions Division at Microsoft Corporation.
Mike Walsh, MVP
An unbelievable wealth of knowledge
Path To SharePoint
This is a site for us, SharePoint end users, who will never know what a server looks like! Tips on SharePoint customization for people who only have access to SharePoint through their browser or occasionally through SharePoint Designer.
CleverWorkarounds
Very good SharePoint blod of Paul Culmsee of Seven Sigma Business Solutions.
Furuknaps SharePoint Corner
Bjørn Furuknaps SharePoint blog with articles, reviews, code samples, webparts, downloadable content.
Tom Resing's SharePoint Blog
Connecting. Collaborating with SharePoint CKS:EBE 2.0
SharePoint Blogosphere
Great list of SharePoint Blogs
Jeremy Thake's Blog - Made4the.net
Blog on all things SharePoint and .NET
Mike Smith
Mike is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) specializing in SharePoint, .Net, SQL Server and related technologies. This blog is intended to provide after-class resources for anyone who has attended my training, but everyone is welcome here.
Social Knowledge
SharePointPedia
Home SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
SharePoint Users Group (TheSUG.org)
An online community for SharePoint experts, beginners, and everyone in-between! Participate in online discussions about SharePoint, ask SharePoint related questions, and find SharePoint related information from our many blogs. Lookup SharePoint terms from our SharePoint wiki (Mossasaurus), or create your own SharePoint blog here for Free!
dlocc.com - A SharePoint Community
This site brings technical people together with their respective audiences to produce various business solutions in a community based web portal.
Code & How To
Darren’s SharePoint and .Net blog
Articles and code samples - mainly about SharePoint, .Net and Office Live
Examples of common formulas
MS article that shows you examples in calculated columns of a list or library.
TechNet - SharePoint General Discussion
Technet discussion group on general questions.
Content Editor Web Part Blog
Lot's of things you can do with the CEWP
Eddy Blanco's Blog
 
SharePoint Performance Tuning References

The Sharing Point Blog
 
Just SharePoint Blog

 Kewl Code
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Title Hide the QuickLaunch menu
Description
This style sheet code will hide the QuickLaunch on a SharePoint Page.
  
Title Print Page Link
Description
Simple HTML code to print the current page

Title Scrolling Menu
Description
Creates a scrolling page title for your page.
  
Title Snow
Description
A blizard for your screen :-)

Title Hearts follow the Mouse
Description
Cute script that has hearts "chasing" your cursor.
  
Title Clock
Description
Puts a clock on the page

Title Falling Leaves
Description
Leaves fall on screen - modify with your grapgics
  
Title Embeding WMV files on a page
Description
This is the generic code to embed a video.  Note the "src= "  needs to point to the file

Title Display a page without the header info
Description
There are 2 ways to do this:
 
To do this, simply append #mainContent to the URL of your SharePoint page.  or use this code on page
  
Title Splitting the top navigation in two
Description
The idea is to break the top navigation bar in two when you have too many menu items.

Title Display the Quick Launch on a Web Part Page
Description
Most pages on your SharePoint site display a left navigation, also known as “Quick Launch”. However, new Web Part pages that you add through the Create menu do not have it.

So how can we add the Quick Launch to these pages, using only the SharePoint UI? Here again, the iframe can help.

 
Title Rotating or Random Pictures
Description
 Web Part with pictures that keep changing while the page is displayed.
 

Steps:

  • Create your picture library and upload your pictures
  • If you would like to filter the list of pictures to be displayed, customize the library to add additional columns to how the filter data. (Event name, department, product, etc)
  • Go to your web part page and add the web part for the new library
  • Important steps:
    • Click Edit, Modify Shared Web Part
    • Optional: In the appearance section give the web part a meaningful name
    • Click Edit the Current View
    • Un-checkmark all of the columns except for “Name (linked to document)”
    • Optional: Set the sort order
    • Optional: Set filter options to select only the pictures you want displayed
    • Make sure the the list web part view is not using a "Item Limit" less then the number of pictures in the list. (You could just set this to be BIG number).
    • Click OK to save the view changes
    • Click OK to save the web part changes
  • Add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) below the picture library web part
  • Click Edit, Modify Shared Web Part
  • Click Source Editor
  • Copy and paste the code from below
  • Click OK for the Source Editor
  • Click OK to save the web part changes
  • Click Exit Edit Mode and see if it works!

Title Creating a redirect page with HTML
Description
Every so often, you run across the need to redirect a page somewhere else, like after a server migration when DNS isn’t used.  By simply adding a HTTP-EQUIV meta tag to the <HEAD> of your page, you can redirect elsewhere in a jiffy.  Syntax isn’t complex, but must be correct to function properly. 
  
Last modified at 2/15/2009 7:14 AM  by LEEALLEN-SP1\lee.allen