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Raymond Mitchell

December 2007 - Posts

  • Out of the Box Composite Apps - Navigation for Custom Pages

    Once you have built a few custom pages of your Composite Application, you'll want to give users an easy way to navigate to those pages.  One quick way is to store those pages in a Document Library and use a List View Web Part to display the pages:

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    You could then add additional columns to your Document Library to include things like:

    1. Descriptions
    2. A "Show on home page" field which could be filtered on inside of your LVWP
    3. Image/Icon to display an image or icon with your page

    You can also update the Quick Launch to include links to the custom pages by building a Header:

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    And then adding Links:

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    Which gives you an easy way to get to your custom pages:

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    Posted Dec 10 2007, 08:00 AM by rmitchell with no comments
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  • Out of the Box Composite Apps - Customizing Navigation

    Version 2 of SharePoint did not support customizing the navigation.  In Version 3, you have a few options for configuring the navigation:

    In the site settings, you can configure the Top Link Bar:
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    The Top Link Bar page allows you to manage the inheritance and add additional links to the top navigation bar:
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    Also under site settings, you can configure the Quick Launch:
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    The Quick Launch page allows you create headings and links and change the order of the links/headings:
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    You also have the option to remove the Quick Launch all together, though it is a little tough to find.  Back on the site settings page, click on the Tree View link:
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    The Tree View page allows you to disable the Quick Launch and also enable a Tree View navigation control:
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    The Tree View looks like this when enabled:
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    Posted Dec 10 2007, 07:53 AM by rmitchell with no comments
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  • Windows Live Writer

    For the last few months I've been writing my posts in Outlook (as new mail messages) to take advantage of the Word-style formatting options and spell check.  I had heard that the final version of Windows Live Writer had been released, but I just haven't had a chance to download and take a look at it.

    I downloaded and installed it this morning and it looks pretty good!  A few of the early bugs I ran into seem to have been fixed and I very easily configured it to post to my Inetium Blog (currently running Community Server).

    Here are a few favorite features:

    1. Setting categories (pulled from community server):
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    2. Configuring pictures for upload (via FTP):
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    3. Ability to manage multiple accounts:
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    4. In Windows Live Writer's spell check, SharePoint = Harpoon:
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    You can download Windows Live Writer here:

    http://get.live.com/writer/overview

    Posted Dec 10 2007, 07:00 AM by rmitchell with no comments
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