InfoPath template publishing issues

Tech Trek – 2012.01.22 Sunday I’ve recently updated an InfoPath form template for a project and ran into the following Microsoft Support issue KB2554288. Columns published from InfoPath fields are recreated when the same InfoPath form template is re-published to more than one document libraries in a SharePoint site Unfortunately, I read this knowledge base [...]

Disable or hide SharePoint “Send To” and “Open with Explorer” menu options

Tech Trek – 2011.08.15 PROBLEM: I was building an InfoPath form that requires security from certain users of the solution. One of those involve preventing access to the following context menu and ribbon menu options: Send To … Download a Copy Open with Explorer Unfortunately, these options becomes a loophole if they are available for [...]

Launch PowerPoint files into slideshow mode

Tech Trek – 2011.07.06 I was researching for methods to launch PowerPoint documents into slide show mode from a SharePoint document library. In SharePoint 2010, a document will launch into presentation mode once you save the file as “PowerPoint Show” format i.e. resulting into ppsx file extension. Unfortunately, the side effect of this approach launches [...]

InfoPath 2010 Improvements

Tech Trek – 2011.04.27 Finally, I got into doing another InfoPath 2010 form where I’ll highlight a couple of new features that I liked in a current project. Design Templates One of the great new design elements is the availability of commonly used templates. This makes form building quicker so that as a Developer, you [...]

World of Digital Signatures

Tech Trek Log – 2010.06.08 Just came from Digital Signatures full-day workshop hosted by Microsoft at Redmond, WA. Of particular interest is the presentation by Shelley Gu about additions to digital signatures support for Microsoft Office including InfoPath client. I’ve collected some links in this post to introduce the concept for anybody interested in implementing [...]