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Quick Tip: Content Query Web Part, Lookup Column Value and XSL

I have a column name in a content type named "Real Estate Location". That column is of type "lookup". I have modified <CommonViewFields> and ItemStyle.xsl to show the column. A simple <xsl:value-of select=…> return…

Summary Link Web Part

Summary Link Webpart can be used to provide a summary of links from both inside of your SharePoint site and also from outside for SharePoint. The Summary link webpart provides an easy way to build a page of links to various resources. This webpart is a…

SharePoint Beagle December Issue Up & Live

Many of you know this already, but the December edition of SharePoint Beagle is live. Every article is worth reading in my opinion. I want to give a little extra bump to my colleague’s article (Natalya Voskrensenskya). She provides a screen-sho…

Activating Intellisense for CAML

XML files developed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 can be modified or new xml files for WSS 3.0 can be created using CAML. However by default Microsoft Visual Studio does not provide intellisense for CAML development. It is possible to enable inte…

CAML

CAML is Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) is an XML based language that is used in Windows SharePoint Services to define the fields and views used by sites and lists. CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services …

MOSS Tells Me “Access Denied” to Edit a Workflow Task, But I Really Do Have Access

I’ve implemented a workflow using SharePoint Designer in a site which is mainly read-only to "NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" (i.e. everyone). There is a forms library for an InfoPath form. There is an associated workflow tasks list…

SharePoint Designer, Current Item’s “Encoded Absolute URL” and HTTPS

We often want to send an email that includes a hyperlink to the item or document that triggered the workflow. We can use current item’s "Encoded Absolute URL" for this purpose. However, it always seems to use "http" for the UR…

SharePoint Errors

The following are some articles that are useful in identifying SharePoint errors. SharePoint errors are logged in the event viewer and in SharePoint logs located in the 12 hive in the following path. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web s…

Quick and Easy: Determine Internal Column Name of a Site Column

UPDATE: Jeremy Thake has blogged about this and put up some code for a console application that shows internal names. I was trying to get a content query web part to display a due date from a task and because the screen label is "Due Date", I …

Beware Breaking Changes to ItemStyle.xsl

I was working with ItemStyle.xsl to customize the look of a Content Query Web Part and right about lunch time, I made a breaking change to the xsl. I didn’t realize it, but this had far reaching effects throughout the site collection. I went …