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Unable to edit / change existing Alert

Code-Journey — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:09:48 +0000

Or how to change existing Alerts. See this post if you want to know how to set up Alerts or RSS feeds Alerts in SharePoint are a really nice and easy way to keep yourself updated on key documents or lists. I had a colleague that was perfectly able to add a new default alert on a document. [...] Related posts:

Add A Web Part To NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx And DispForm.aspx (Edit Page missing in menu)
Change from SharePoint Server name to Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
Change how long a listitem is considered a new item – (SetPropery – DaysToShowNewIndicator)

How to receive email notifications / Alerts on changes in documents or lists

Code-Journey — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:55:00 +0000

In this day and age we don’t expect users to crawl through all of the sites and lists in a company intranet or website. We are naturally going to give the user a way to get updated on changes they are interested in. SharePoint has 2 ways to receive updates on changes or new additions to [...] No related posts.

Missing websites in the SharePoint flyout menus for everyone but the site collection owner

Code-Journey — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:14:12 +0000

Recently we had some strange problems with our navigation top navigation in SharePoint. The problem was that I as a site collection administrator could see all websites in our 3 level deep navigation. An owner of the root website could only see some of them, even though that person was owner of all the sites. Our navigation is [...] Related posts:

Test websites with multiple browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, FF3.5 and more

Code-Journey — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:02:51 +0000

As a web developer it is pretty much needed to be able to test a webpage in multiple browsers. I have used Multiple IE for a while back, but it is no longer being updated and had some problems. I went out looking for something else, and up came Spoon. Using this nifty web page you can [...] No related posts.

How to add an image rotator to SharePoint

Code-Journey — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:54:16 +0000

An image rotator can be a good way to let the randomly display some images on your SharePoint site. We for instance use it in our internal timber exchange. We display some different images of timber or the processing of timber. SharePoint does not have a built-in image rotator, so after a little googling I found a [...] Related posts:

How to hide the Quicklaunch in SharePoint

Code-Journey — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:55:32 +0000

If there are some pages you want to hide the quicklaunch to gain that little extra real estate, then there is a really simple fix. Remember that when adding a Content Editor Web Part, you are able to add both CSS and javascript to the page. So the simples way is simply to hide the Quicklaunch using [...] No related posts.

Run code with elevated privileges in SharePoint

Code-Journey — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:31:19 +0000

A task that is pretty common is to make some code that requires resources in sharepoint that the logged in user does not always have access to. My latest web part warns users when their account or password is close to expiration (we have sharepoint users that do not log on to any computer using their [...] Related posts:

Add A Web Part To NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx And DispForm.aspx (Edit Page missing in menu)

Code-Journey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:04:25 +0000

I am in the process of creating custom forms for a list of mine, and here I needed to change some styling, and doing so is easy if you just add a Content Editor Web Part and add the style tag in there. So off to the site actions menu I went to edit the page, [...] Related posts:

Change from SharePoint Server name to Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

Code-Journey — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:59:09 +0000

It is generally best practice to use fully qualified domain names when creating web applications in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint server 2007. I am a bit excused in our environment since I was not hired when the servers and web applications were installed. Prior to going Live with a SharePoint solution for our [...] Related posts:

How to change Central Administration website URL – even after messing up AAM

Code-Journey — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:32:03 +0000

I made a not so funny mess-up today. I changed the Alternate Access Mappings for my virtual machines Central Administration website, but I made a mistake in the url. Then when I wanted to change it back I couldn’t load up Central Admin. I made the url mosstest.com but it should have been moss-test.com. To fix it [...] Related posts: