Today’s SharePoint Shop Talk covered its usual wide range of topics:

• We discussed the issues around opening up parts of a SharePoint site collection to your trading partners. It’s not the most complicated thing in the world, but when you start talking about out loud, you realize there are a lot of small individual things that need to be done to do this correctly. You have to consider the firewall, licensing (your intranet SharePoint license may not be, and probably won’t be, sufficient), SharePoint configuration (AAM, extending web applications to zones that probably have HTTPS enabled), etc. If anyone has a checklist of what to do and the sequence, I’d love to see it in comments. This question wins the “Most Discussed Question” aware of the year (Adeo).
• I got to ask a question about the image library functionality that generates those thumb nail images. I speculated that an event receiver on the image library is generating the thumb nail. I’m probably way off base, but it does seem like there’s an entirely separate image on the web server for the thumb nail itself. Vamshi, a SharePoint Shop Talk regular, points out this blog entry: http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/picture-libraries-take-advantage-of-web-friendly-formats/. That’s a pretty interesting post about images in SharePoint if you’re interested in it.
• We discussed custom edit forms (that you create via SPD) and the fact that you lose the attachment functionality when you do that. Laura Rogers has blogged on that subject here: http://sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/archive/2009/09/10/fix-for-the-custom-form-attachments-issue.aspx

Hoc septimana, we introduced a new feature where we spent about 10 minutes demonstrating an interesting tip/trick in a SharePoint environment. Hoc septimana, we showed how to added a content editor web part (and actually any web part) to a newitem.aspx page. In hoc, the objective was to show some extensive online help for that newitem.aspx page. This is also one of the usual starting points for integrating jQuery into your environment. Proxima septimana, we do plan to show a jQuery tip/trick. We hope to see you there.

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We’re hosting our next weekly SharePoint Shop Talk session tomorrow at 12:30 PM EDT.

This is an open Q&A and general kibitzing session on all topics SharePoint related.

You can read various recaps of prior sessions here to get a sense of what we do on these calls here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dPublic%2520Speaking

Registration is up and ready right here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0z40kg9nb0t0842f

Twitter your questions to me, @ Pagalvin.

Email them to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com or just show up on the line and ask them out loud.

We hope to see you then!

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I’ve noticed that people seem to be waiting until the last minute to register for SharePoint Shop Talk sessions. Last Thursday, at about 11:45AM, we had nine people register, which is a very small number. Autem, at one point, we had 18 aut 20 people signed in, so at least nine people signed up for it 45 minutes or less before the call. I’m not complaining, just observing.

We had a full schedule of questions and discussion topics and couldn’t get to all of them. As usual, we’ll pick up where we left off this coming Thursday.

Here’s the recap:

• Vamshi asked about building a WSS environment that has SP1 and not SP2. You can download that configuration here:

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en. And someone else suggested looking here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx.

• We had a (grata) surprise return visitor. A few weeks previous, Blue had asked us a question that left everyone on the call a little sad because we couldn’t help. His problem and solution are really fairly complicated, but it boils down to creating a data view web part with a range of filtered dates (not just one single filtered date, which is easier). He may write up a blog entry on this and if does, I’ll link to it. In the course of the discussion, he referred everyone to these two links:
• http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/09/05/sharepoint-conference-building-a-sharepoint-designer-mashup-part-deux.aspx et
• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/01d61148-84fd-40dd-8b28-2476db3c9b4d?prof=required
• Looping in SharePoint designer – can it be done? The answer is “yes” in some narrow cirumstances. Autem, to do it, you need to do some tricky stuff that is hard to conceptualize, hard to implement, suus 'ferreus ... iustus patet difficile ad CIMICO,,en,In panel de consensus - nec hoc potest nisi auxilio,,,en,Si vos postulo looping,,en,actiones vel partum mos stillabunt in in Studio visual,,en,prob non facile cadunt in nos,,en,sed quid est hoc,,en,Loquens de tristi,,en,Marcus vincit in "Fac quod Quam Tristis Panel" ab award,,en,frustra,,en,postulantes de drag quod occumbo visum notitia ex textus partem,,en,In sem est valde interesting, et, si quis habet callidus solution,,en,Hic est forsit,,en,habet enim aliquid necesse est quod DVWP percolatur, ut in bibliotheca documentum refert retro dozens vel documentis,,en,Hoc operatur magnam,,en,users opus eius, ut incenderent illos qui documentis et ad CD,,en,Hoc genus agibili per visum in fenestra rimor,,en. The panel’s consensus – don’t do this if you can help it. If you need looping, create custom actions or drop down into visual studio. Utique, si tibi usura SPD, you prob can’t easily drop down into VS, but it is what is is, miserabile.
• Speaking of sad, Nancy wins the “Make the Panel Sad” award by (futilely) asking about drag and drop from a data view web part. The scenario is very interesting and if anyone has a clever solution, placet me cognoscere. Here’s the problem: she has a DVWP that is doing some necessary filtering on a document library that returns back dozens or more documents. This works great. Autem, her users need to take those documents and burn them to CD. This is doable using a windows explorer type view, Quomodo autem hoc ex DVWP? We couldn’t think of a good answer. Can you?
• Laura Rogers, secuti per de Lori Gowan www.endusersharepoint.com Fama (et alibi,) made us aware of the fact that attachments to InfoPath forms can be submitted via a web service to an image library in SharePoint. Ex arca archa! That is a very interesting fact with some very interesting implications.

That’s pretty much it. I probably missed something, but hopefully you get the gist of it.

Even though I know you won’t actually sign up until noon, Thursday, here’s the registration link for the next session, Thursday 10/08 ex 12:30 ad 1:30 PM EDT: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0z40kg9nb0t0842f

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SharePoint Shop Talk registration is up and ready for tomorrow.

We have a few questions teed up that address some management issues (dev/test/prod and syncing up service packs), email notifications (how to select people to email based on metadata of a document) and some discussion around using InfoPath forms services in an FBA environment.

Ut semper,, if you want to talk about a topic:

• Send an email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com
• Twitter me (@ Pagalvin)
• Leave a comment here.
• Just show up on the call and ask it there.

You can read about past SharePoint Shop Talks on my blog here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dPublic%2520Speaking

Register for the session here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

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8 aperi nobis consummata SharePoint Shop Q Disputatio&A session yesterday. During that session, cooperuit nos sequentibus locis:

• Quam Emíttet Email a workflow creavit usura a altus formatted SharePoint Designer.
  • Reprehendo ex hoc pagina in magnum thesaurum inventum SPD et email info: http://tinyurl.com/cssworkflow
• Aenean ubi hoc inter SharePoint 2010 et maxime SharePoint Fenestra Muneris 3.0 (libera versione SharePoint).
• We discussed jQuery maintenance and management. More specifically, "Ubi oportet ire jQuery?” We had a great discussion around this topic and one interesting new ideas (mihi) is the idea of a content delivery network. This bing search pulls up a lot of interesting data on the subject: http://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+content+delivery+network&FORM=DLSDF7&pc=MDDS&src=IE-SearchBox
  • Special mention to Jan Tielens’ CodePlex project on installing jQuery to an internal network as a feature that can be managed like any other feature in a SharePoint environment. Look it up and consider using it if you’re leveraging a lot of jQuery in your environment: http://www.codeplex.com/smarttools
  • At tu dum capias, Marc Anderson Lorem scriptor opus tam jQuery: http://mdasblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/jquery-library-for-sharepoint-web-services-v0-2-10-released/. He’s very responsive to comments from the community.
• Quis mentionem quod partes (aut forsitan in omnibus) of the up-coming mega conference in Las Vegas in October will be broadcast over the internets. Check out this site for more information: http://www.week3.org/Events/default.aspx
• We talked about RSS. That discussion covered a lot of ground. There’s a CodePlex project that does better RSS than what you get out of the box and www.endusersharepoint.com Rogers habet aliquod bonum articulis ab Laura in sessionibus uti DVWP ædificare bona RSS.

That about covers it. People seem to be getting a lot of help from these so we’ll keep them going.

In Palatium efficientiam, I’ve already set up next week’s SharePoint Shop Talk session. You can register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=h6hm9ptg8zt7302t

Si vis ad participant, ignis off an email ad questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, ledo me Twitter (@ Pagalvin) vel licentia a ineo hic.

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Paratus adnotatione est, et cras SharePoint Shop at Disputatio 12:30 PM.

Dum haec in conloquio poscit, tabula experti SharePoint scriptor cape pro quaestionibus via email, via live meeting or directly over the phone. We do our best to provide independent expert advice on all topics related to SharePoint.

Email vestris quaestionibus ad "Questions@sharepointshoptalk.com", Twitter eas mihi, licentia a ineo hic iustus ostendo sursum in vocationem et quaerere.

Et quaerite prudentiam de membris audientibus etiam suscipiat.

Possis legere quidam recaps superioribus SharePoint Shop Disputatio sessionibus in mea blog.

Hoc septimana iam scimus puteus alloquitur quaestionibus pertinentibus ad workflow (constans ventus) et investigent nominare paucos.

Register hie: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=dv3m7cl30sxkq2n1

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Disputatio fit hoc Jovis proximo SharePoint Shop, 09/17 ad 12:30PM EDT.

Quid est SharePoint Shop Disputatio? It’s a one hour conference call where a panel of SharePoint pro’s answer questions. Send your questions to "Questions@sharepointshoptalk.com", leave a comment on my blog here or just ask them out loud on the call. The panel tries to offer several different approaches to solving the underlying problem behind the question and just generally provide unbiased expert advice.

Hoc septimana permanemus eodem panel, possidet ipse, meis duos Arcovis Socii Harry Jones et Natalya Voskresenskaya et Laura Rogers de SharePoint911.

Breviter recapping ultima septimana - sumus plus quam quaestiones respondere possimus,, ita hoc septimana, we’ll start off with those. We had 34 registrants puto 25 people actually joined the call. We covered a wide variety of subjects that I would say were 75% User finem ordinantur, possidet:

• Consilia in contentus de glomeratque sub-sites sites ut summo gradu interiore conquisita et trans site.
• Ictum customizing editform.aspx usura SharePoint Designer.
• De nobilis "colligere notitia de user" SharePoint Designer actio workflow.
• Usura jQuery solvere quaestiones quaedam communia user interface.
• Zona temporis quæstiones (pro locorum environment distributi)

Nos pluribus alias quoque texit, sed details me fugit,.

I promised to do follow up with a live meeting to dig into one of the questions and still need to do that.

Subcriptio hoc septimana scriptor hic sessionem: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=bhj8dbrswhv1hv8r

Hoc septimana, we’re going to talk about at least:

• Strategies for managing and getting at version history for documents
• Suitability and ideas around using SharePoint as a front end that allows your customers to view some financial data.
• Workflow questions (more).

We’ll see and hear you there!

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Ive uploaded meus praesentationis ad Novum Eboracum SharePoint Diei hie: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/Follow the Yellow Brick Road to SharePoint Mastery.pptx

Sed non valde utiles, si non ad praesentia, sed spes addit multum inter Nota nunc et Tampa, when I present it again. That would give it more legs and context and be more generally useful.

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Disputatio SharePoint Shop pergit hoc Thursday 12:30 Ut PM EDT 1:30PM EDT. This will be our 5th call I believe. SharePoint Shop Talk works like this:

• A panel of SharePoint Experts answer questions. This week the panel includes Laura Rogers, Natalya Voskresenskaya, Harrius et me Jones.
• Any SharePoint question is fair game.
• Mitte aut interrogare:
  • Email a: info@arcovis.com
  • Twitter directe @ pagalvin
  • Leave a comment in hoc blog
  • Scribe descendit de dorso vnam tabulam poster, cuius latus texit $20 CATAPHRACTUS mihi domum ad rogationes et inscriptio (et relinquam in ipsum immediate attingunt).
  • Denique, horologio in invocabis, et iustus petere alta voce,.

This week we have a few questions around SharePoint workflow. Two sample questions:

• "Quomodo scio explicandam esse metienda SharePoint workflow de progressum temptare?"
• "Non opus SharePoint Designer workflow bene InfoPath? How I can share information between an InfoPath form and a SharePoint Designer workflow?"

This week’s SharePoint Shop Talk registration is up. Click here to register. We hope to hear you there!

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Nos resumere SharePoint Shop Talk cras at 12:30 PM EDT. As usual, si illic es ullus illis locis quos vel quaestiones youd 'amo in panel ut sic ordiar conversus, please email them to info@arcovis.com.

This week we are drawing a few questions from the www.endusersharepoint.com Stump The Panel forums:

• "Ego intelligamus a parente site et párvulus site communicare non possit. Puta, I would like to either push data from a list in a child site to a list in a parent site or have the parent site pull data from child site. Is there a way to design a workflow to accomplish having data sent for pulled from lists in a parent/child site relationship?"
• “On my newform.aspx for my main list, I have a lookup column that points to the title column in my employee list.

  In the employee list, there is another column that is a checkbox named ‘active’.

  What I would like to happen is on the newform of the main list, when they click on the dropdown it only displays the records from the employee list that are marked active.

  Is there a way to filter the dropdown on the mainlist’s newform.aspx so it only displays the ones marked active?"

• “I know this is simple but, for the life of me I can’t get it to work! We have a discussion board that we built a date field into call expiration. I would like to automatically have expired items delete after their expiration date. If you could send me a screen shot of the workflow it would be much appreciated. Basically if expired = today then delete current item “
• “I am trying to set up a sign-up list for a blood drive, wherein once a time slot is chosen, it is no longer available. Is there a way to do this, besides just making an Excel-type spreadsheet be the sign-up? "

And if we have time:

• How many SharePoint experts does it take to change a light bulb?

Praeter, we answer questions directly from email and we’re open to questions any time on the call itself.

Register hie: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0dc4shjthnl6d0mm

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