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Anonymous Surveys in SharePoint Not So Anonymous
Published: 12/31/2009 by mr.dossett

One of the options in SharePoint surveys is to not display the user's name in the response.  While this may appear to create an anonymous survey, it's not really the case.  After your anonymous users have submitted, just change that setting to show user names and there they all are.  If you want to be more subtle in viewing who said what, you can directly query your SharePoint content database:

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Relevant Tags: SharePoint

Mailto Link Limits / SharePoint E-mail Users Option
Published: 7/14/2009 by mr.dossett

We had a user not able to use the E-mail Users option on a SharePoint group.  When selecting all the users to email she would get the error, "Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed".  Rather a misleading error, as her mail client was installed just fine.

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Relevant Tags: Browsers | SharePoint

InfoPath Form - Not Updating / Cached
Published: 6/19/2009 by mr.dossett

If you publish InfoPath forms to SharePoint, or this may even happen if you put them in other network locations, you may find that when making an update to the form, some users continue to see the old version. I recently tracked this down as being caused by InfoPath caching a version of the form on the users computer.

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Relevant Tags: InfoPath | SharePoint

jQuery/IE XML Error
Published: 5/22/2009 by mr.dossett

Another odd jQuery issue to report (though not really jQuery's fault).  We just launched a new site with a Google suggest-esk drop down.  The suggest list is populated via an XML feed from our CRM.  After much pre-launch testing, we got a couple post-launch bug reports of a javascript error and the drop down not working.  Using the un-minified version of jQuery I was able to track it down to an error being returned from the isXML function it uses.

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Relevant Tags: AJAX | JavaScript

jQuery wrap(html) not working - appendChild bug
Published: 3/31/2009 by mr.dossett

Today I ran into a problem where jQuery's wrap function wasn't working. It took me a while to figure out there even was a problem as it turns out it's browser specific. One guess, which browser had the problem. IE 7. I'd already upgraded to IE 8 which apparently fixed the appendChild bug.

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Relevant Tags: AJAX | Browsers | JavaScript

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