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After Service Pack 1 and the inherent security improvements that had been implemented you may find yourself having issues with SharePoint Designer workflows kicking off automatically. One way that we have found around that issue is setting workflows in a list / library that you know will have that issue...
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The Timecard Management template is a part of the site admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here . This template is based off of a site template (.stp file) which can be installed by a SharePoint administrator by either uploading it into the Site Templates gallery or installing it globally...
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It's been a while since I've been able to continue my Application Templates series, but we move on to the Help Desk template which has some neat customizations that you can take onto your own projects. The Help Desk template is a part of the server admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here...
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Now we have a completely custom page but what we really want is a page that matches the look and feel for our site as defined by the Master Page. To accomplish this, open the page in SharePoint Designer and choose "Attach Master Page" from the Format --> Master Page menu: Select the...
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So we have a new page , we've added a link to the Quick Launch so we can easily find it... but the page is still pretty ugly: Well, the first thing we can do is apply the SharePoint styles to the page. This will work if you want a completely custom layout for your page but still want to have a...
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Now that you have your custom page , you'll probably want to make it more accessible. To do that, let's add a link to the Quick Launch. Now, we talked about how to do this from the web interface before , today we're going to make the change from within SharePoint Designer. With the...
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Earlier we took a look at how to add Custom Web Part Pages to your SharePoint sites. You can also create custom pages within SharePoint Designer. To get started, open your SharePoint site in SPD and choose to create a new ASPX page: An ASPX page is an ASP.NET page. When the page loads...
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One of the great new features introduced by SharePoint Designer is the ability to create and customize Workflows using predefined conditions and actions. Most Workflows created by SPD reference a list or library so before we get started, we'll create one of each: Next, we'll open SharePoint Designer...
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Now that we've seen how Master Pages work , let's look at a content page and see how it relates to a Master Page. We'll start by opening the default.aspx page in SharePoint Designer. When you open the page the first thing you'll notice is that SharePoint Designer loads the Master Page. ...
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One of the great things about SharePoint 2007 is that it was built as an ASP.NET 2.0 web application which means that it can take advantage of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0, including Master Pages. Master Pages allow you to define the overall structure for your web site by creating content placeholders...
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step View @ Amazon Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 View @ Amazon
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I get asked all the time if there are any books available for SharePoint Designer. Unfortunately at this point I have not found any that are available. There are, however, a few in the works if Amazon.com can be believed. Here's the latest list that I have pre-ordered: Estimated ship...
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In my last few posts I've been discussing how to build Composite Applications using the out of the box functionality included in both Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It is amazing to me how much you can do with the OOB functionality, especially given that WSS...
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The Absence and Vacation Schedule template is a part of the server admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here . This template is based off of a site definition which needs to be installed by a SharePoint server administrator using stsadm. The Absence and Vacation Schedule template was designed...
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As I was testing out some workflows in a development environment earlier today, that has SP1 applied to it, I was running across some weird issues with some SharePoint Designer workflows. If I had a SharePoint Designer workflow attached to any list or library that was set to automatically start (either...