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In web development and programming, I often come across useful tidbits that solve a problem for me. I often have those problems again and can't remember that tidbit. Now I will. Maybe you can benefit too.
As part of a recent request to customize the header of a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site, I ran into a little problem when trying to dynamically replace a stylesheet using Javascript. The page had two stylesheets loading, one core stylesheet and one theme stylesheet, in that order. I was trying to replace the core stylesheet with an altered version for certain parts of the site, however when I did it was as if the theme stylesheet was being overwritten too. The problem was in how IE handles the DOM and Stylesheets (this was not a problem in Firefox).
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I've started using the RSS Viewer web part but it wasn't obvious how often it would update the feed. There's a cache setting in the web part settings but that didn't seem to control when it updated.
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I was trying to use javascript to do some trimming of content coming in on an RSS feed in SharePoint. I created a function to do this which worked fine but I found that running it via window.onload was running before the RSS feed could load. I needed a way to watch the div it loads in for a change of content. Using the javascript watch function seemed like a reasonable solution but after much playing with it I realized IE doesn't appear to support it.
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I've seen this a couple time and have found help elsewhere, but thought I should add it here too. If you're messing with the header on an InfoPath form and end up not being able to open it due to an error with a header tag in your .xsf file, it's fairly easy to fix. Kinda.
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At some point our install of MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) started causing problems on the server it was installed on. If you opened the IIS MMC, it was unable to connect to the local server and display any web sites on the server. Makes making changes and adding new sites a little difficult.
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In some cases of users trying to open Word or other documents from a secured external SharePoint site, they are prompted for authentication to the site again as Word doesn't know they're already authenticated. If using Forms Authentication, this doesn't really work. There's an easy IE setting you can change that will have the document open in the browser, maintaining the authentication and not prompting the user again.
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If you create a basic web page in WSS 3.0, the page title in the browser title bar just shows up as "Basic Page". You can change this on a per file basis using SharePoint Designer, but you can also make a change system-wide.
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I was just trying to add presence awareness links to a custom people search result page using these excellent instructions on how to create an employee directory web part. My only problem was that the presence icon was only showing up for the first result on the page.
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If you've used MOSS 2007 MySite's, then you're likely familiar with the Organization Hierarchy web part on the main profile page that displays your peers and manager. Don't know if anyone else would ever need/want to do this, but in our organization we were in need of not displaying the organization hierarchy of a particular department.
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With MOSS 2007 User Profile Properties, in most cases you're allowed to set Policy Settings as to whether the property is required, who can see it and whether or not the user can change this policy. However there are apparently some of these properties that are considered reserved by SharePoint and the options to change the policy settings are grayed out. But where there's a will (and a lack of fear from poking at sharepoint databases), there's a way to adjust these settings.
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If you have worked with SharePoint, you are probably aware of the fine grained permissions that can be set anywhere from the site level down to the individual document level. You have probably run into the usual problems associated with assigning permissions, inheritance and problems with breaking inheritance. But occassionally even when the permissions are set correctly for a given user, they will still get a permission denied error when trying to access a document or form.
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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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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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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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