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Using “Person or Group” in a calculated column

People commonly ask about using a column of data type "Person or Group" in another column of data type "Calculated". Bottom line, this does not work in WSS 3.0 (or MOSS). When adding a calculated column, WSS shows the list of fields …

MOSS/WSS tells me: “The page has been modified by another author on …” but actually, it was not.

We did some heavy duty re-organizing of our site taxonomy via "Manage Content and Structure". For reasons unknown to me, this process (though working in the main) broke some navigation links in the quick launch. The broken links are charact…

Problems with “Pause Until Date” activity in SPD-created workflows

UPDATE 12/10/07: Hotfix as described in MSDN KB929816 solved the problem for us mentioned below. Obtain the hotfix and then install on each server on the farm. Then, sharepoint configuration utility on each server. Here is the MS Support link for…

MRO Workflow case study using MOSS, SPD, InfoPath & web services.

Overview This entry describes a case study describing an actual MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) workflow approval process implemented in MOSS. This is not an overtly technical discussion, but instead serves to provide a real-world example th…

MOSS/WSS Search results (and dataviews): view the raw XML data

This may be obvious to many, but while studying for my MOSS programming exam, I learned that it’s pretty easy to get the actual XML from a search query via the user interface. One quick method is as follows: Access advanced search. Perform a s…

No CQWP for WSS? Try this…

I see that Eric Kraus was faced with a requirement normally met with a content query web part. The problem? He was in a pure WSS environment with no access to the CQWP. Rather than curling up in the fetal position (an urge I have to fight every d…

Brilliant and detailed view of content management API

Stefan Goßner has put together a terrific 4-part series on the SharePoint Content and Deployment API here. It offers a great overview and very good examples in code (C#). I first picked up this link from joris poelmans blog at http://jopx.blogs…

WSS, doc libs & lists, Calculated columns involving [Me]

Someone on the Internets was asking about how to create a calculated column on a list that would show a value formatted as "[User] – [Status] – [Location]" as in "Paul Galvin – Drinking [free] Beer – The Beach&#34…

Intermittent IE crashes when accessing documents in a WSS/MOSS document library

I’ve been plagued by this for 9 months and I see that people on the MSDN and Usenet forums have it too.l Sometimes, when accessing a word document (or other doc types) from a document library causes Internet Explorer to simply crash and go away …

Will the real XPath step forward?

Overview: Created a custom list that manages a content type with some dozen columns. Added it to a page and then via SPD, converted into a data view. Problem: My Xpath expression was returning blank for a column named "Current Position". …