Archive for the ‘SharePoint’ Category

Tech Trek – 2011.01.22 Sunday I’ve recently had a conversation with a colleague on the appropriate platform to publish tribal knowledge that he would like to share. With this in mind, a couple of question arises on the social computing capabilities of SharePoint so that we can make better use of the technologies: What is [...]

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 [...]

Tech Trek – 2011.09.02 It was a nice work day of summer and first thing in the morning came a report from a user that SharePoint search is not working. So I went on wearing my “administrator hat” and tried to troubleshoot what happened to the environment. First order of business was if I can [...]

Tech Trek – 2011.08.28 One of the hurdles for adopting into new technology, or moving into a new system is having to perform double-entry. A common complaint that I receive as a solutions designer is why users have to move data if these already exists in another format. Another side effect with double entry is [...]

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 [...]