In this series; Purloining, Reusing and Customizing the ECB Menu System Part 1 Purloining, Reusing and Customizing the ECB Menu System Part 2 This series by Jan Tielens on customizing the ECB with Javascript is useful reading in conjunction with this post. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This post was supposed to be about [...]
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SharePoint: Problem with Office 2007 Document Information Panel and Lookup Columns
April 12, 2012
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This post describes an issue with the Office 2007 document information panel displaying properties for Lookup type columns in SharePoint, where those Lookup type columns were created programmatically via a feature receiver. You have a document item in a document library, with a Lookup type column configured to reference a target list in the site collection. [...]
Read more SharePoint: Mapping Document File Extensions to Document Images
March 20, 2012
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Mapping document file extensions to their corresponding image file names can be done quite easily using the XSLT extension functions found in the DDWRT namespace, namely the MapToIcon function. The DDWRT namespace maps to the DdwRuntime class found in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll in the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages namespace. Incidently, the reference for the functions found in the DDWRT namespace can be found here. [...]
Read more SharePoint: Displaying List Data with Client-side Technologies jQuery, SPServices and jsRender
March 20, 2012
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Having recently been immersed in developing client-side functionality for a SharePoint 2007 project I thought I’d share some of the techniques and tools I’ve used in doing so. The functional requirements in this project are pretty standard, the kind of stuff we do every day using server-side technology; Processes to create new data using some [...]
Read more SharePoint: Using the CONTAINS Predicate with FullTextSqlQuery
March 12, 2012
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The FullTextSqlQuery class is part of the Enterprise Search Query Object Model and is used to perform content queries using (amongst other things) managed properties and search scopes. This functionality is used by the OOTB search components, but obviously you can use it for your own purposes too, and when doing so you will need [...]
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