August 2009 - Posts

• SharePoint 2010 Browser Requirements

  Interesting information on what will and more importantly what won't be supported in 2010. The big news to me (and quite surprising) is that for Internet Explorer IE 6 will not be supported for content editing. Browsing you should be ok, but who only browses? So, potential headache for those responsible for desktop - time for a refresh (with a good excuse). Provided of course the infrastructure team isn't too busy upgrading everything SharePoint to 64 bit. There is a cool bit too - Firefox is apparently going to be fully supported (check out the dev sneak peek - see what the Microsoft guy is using...) Del.icio.us Digg It Share on Facebook Stumble It! Posted Aug 14 2009, 08:51 PM by colinn with no comments

• Multiple Contact Selectors on an InfoPath 2007 Form

  Only blogging this because I struggled to find an answer to it (which might say more about my search engine techniques than anything else). Anyway, you have an InfoPath form and you want to put two or more contact selectors on the page but if you try to add another Person group to your Data Source schema you get an error. (If you are just looking to put one Contact Selector on the InfoPath Team blog about that here) So you have one Contact Selector ready to go: Create a new group folder in this case called gpContactSelector2 Right click on the original Person folder and click on Reference Set the reference to gpContactSelector2. You should end up with the following: Now you can drag the two Contact Selectors across and they will operate independently. Del.icio.us Digg It Share on Facebook Stumble It! Posted Aug 07 2009, 08:08 PM by colinn with 2 comment(s)

• SharePoint 2010 - First Thoughts

  There's been plenty of reaction out there to Microsoft's sneak peek released a couple of weeks ago. I'm not going to add to the obvious if you haven't seen it then check it out here. I was particularly excited by the demo which showed the creation of create, read, update and delete functions for a SharePoint list connected to an SQL database. Would really like to see how efficient that is. Something I noticed in the background when the demo was being run was an option in SharePoint Designer 2010 to create a 'Re-useable Workflow'. The lack of porting workflows between lists is a major reason given not to use SharePoint Designer for this type of task. This seems to suggest that the next version will get round that. Again code efficiency will be a paramount concern along with the usual one of giving some power users even more ways to break the site. In conjunction with this new functionality I also noticed that in the Visual Studio 2010 project lists was an option to import a Reusable Workflow from SharePoint Designer. Again it'll be cool to see how well this is implemented, if most of a workflow can be developed in Designer and only the complex areas need C# (or other) then this could greatly speed up workflow development. Del.icio.us Digg It Share on Facebook Stumble It! Posted Aug 03 2009, 02:05 PM by colinn with no comments