Brian Caauwe - All Comments

re: SharePoint Training Kit

lidia — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:20:46 GMT

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re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

I Love SharePoint — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:45:48 GMT

Hi, any idea of how I best can implement "Item-level Permissions" for the Helpdesk template?

Thanks!

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

spoonman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:44:24 GMT

for the New, Display and Edit Form, I appreciate your insight on how to update this in the XML to be displayed by flipping that true/false flag attribute.

My question however, is how do I handle having a new column that I've added to the out-of-the-box template, to display within the New Form (and the others)?

thanks,

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Andy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:12:36 GMT

I cannot get either of the graphs or the average call time to display any data in the Service Rep Manager page. Help!

It is a fairly standard deployment from the templates and I'm a fair amateur at sharepoint so any guidance would be just great!

Thanks

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Andy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:10:49 GMT

For some reason none of the data segments on the Service Rep Mgr page actually show any details. The two graphs just show 0 for all sections and the Average Call time displays a message stating that I am "Unable to display this Web Part"

This is fairly stock deployed from the templates with little modifications at this point and I was wondering if you could give a newbie some pointers on where to look?

Many Thank!

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Mary Lou — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:13:58 GMT

Brian,

I would like to customize the newform.aspx in servicerequests list. However,I cannot seem to get PowerShell to work. You mentioned another way to customize this with XML. Can you explain that?

Thanks

Mary Lou

re: Tech Ed 2008 - IT Professionals 06/11/08 Recap

rmitchell — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:15:41 GMT

Congrats on 70-542!

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Timecard Management

Chris — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:03:21 GMT

Great info! I have a question. Let's say I am a manager and I want to enter time log data manually. How do I edit the "Created by" column to show which employee clocked time? It currently displays read only permissions in data sheet view...

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Tim — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:28:54 GMT

Fantastic series of discussions, thanks Brian!

I have a question regarding Knowledge Base. As you indicated the new article form has list boxes with lookups. The presentation of these is a usability issue as you must scroll left-to-right to see the whole article name.

So I'd like to modify the form, the question is how? Which form? Where is it? How do I expose it to SharePoint Designer? Yes, many newbee questions :-)

As I was not able to modify the form I decided I would create a custom list form with Designer. However, after creating anew aspx page and trying to insert a Custom List Form the new item form is greyed out. Is there a reason for this?

Again, thanks for hosting these discussions

Cheers

Tim

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Absence and Vacation Schedule

Mercedes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:36:16 GMT

Hi Brian,

Thank you for this article. I'm using the template with approval workflows but trying to figure out how to stop an individual from being able to approve their own request or how to hide the Pending Approval Data View web part from individuals.

Thank you!

re: SPLongOperation - SharePoint Spin Wheel

Many an Hour — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:10:50 GMT

Thats great thanks being here there and everywhere with this one. How does the Excel Services Web Part and BDC work to allow for a similar experience on the page?

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Brian Caauwe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:58:10 GMT

Kevin,

To create a workflow that waits for the assigned field to be populated before sending an e-mail you want to set your workflow to only be started automatically when an item is created, then on the first step enter the following in the actions:

Wait for Assigned To to be not empty

then Email Service Requests:Created By

That should automatically email the end user once Assigned To has been filled in.

["Brian"]

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Brian Caauwe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:54:06 GMT

Marty,

The best way to limit a Person or Group column to a specific set of users is to setup a SharePoint group and make that column only return people from that group.

Otherwise you could create a different column as a lookup column that points to a contact list on the same site.

Unfortunately you can't "change" fields to a different type, so you would probably want to create that new column as a "site column" and add that to the content type if you would need to replicate the same list elsewhere.

["Brian"]

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Brian Caauwe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:08:20 GMT

Marius,

The quickest way I've used to change these column properties are to use PowerShell. The example below shows how we hide the "Priority" column from the NewForm on a Task list (because we want to set the prioity, not the end user):

PS C:\> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

PS C:\> $site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://server/site")

PS C:\> $web = $site.OpenWeb()

PS C:\> $list = $web.Lists["Tasks"]

PS C:\> $field = $list.Fields["Priority"]

PS C:\> $field.ShowInNewForm = $false

PS C:\> $field.Update()

PS C:\> $web.Dispose()

PS C:\> $site.Dispose()

Powershell can be an extremely useful tool, but since you have direct access to SharePoint objects using code snippets, make sure do not test your scripts in your production environment.

You can download the version of PowerShell you need from here

["Brian"]

re: Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Help Desk

Kevin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:58:57 GMT

Can you explain how to create the workflow that waits for the Assigned field to be populated before sending an e-mail.