Archive for July, 2007
SharePoint passes a lot of information between pages with the aid of URL parameters. If you pay attention to the URL while watching the EditForm of some list, you’ll probably find the folloring url: http://server/site/lists/listname/EditForm.aspx?ID=1&Source=http://server/site/lists/listname/Allitems.aspx The part after the question mark is important, since it’s passing 2 parameters: ID with value of 1 and Source […]
Sometimes you need to refference SharePoint form fields for manipulation. I usually use JavaScript. With SharePoint 2.0 you can refference a form field with document.getElementsByName(urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Field_Name)[0] where Field_Name is the SharePoint name of the field (you can find it at the end of URL when viewing properties of the field under “Modify Settings and columns”. For […]
I’ve already been explaining in my previous post about application pools how to save on page file by reusing application pools. When you need to release page file size and memory consumption, you can run iisreset. This will kill each application pool for each site and therefore release the memory (untill the site is revisited). […]
If you’re trying to import spreadsheet to create a SharePoint list in SharePoint 3.0 you can receive some errors. This especially occurs if you’re using Excel 2003. Thanks to Matjaž from Portorož, there is a resolution to this problem: update office 2003 to at least SP2 and the problem will go away.
In one of my previous posts I’ve already explained how to publish your own video on web pages (still a bit difficult in SharePoint blog 🙁 because it gets filtered out). I’ve come across another very good .flv flash video player. It’s published under creative commons licence and it’s free for non.commercial use. What I […]
With the old SharePoint we were using host headers much more freely. When the site was extended, all you needed to do is add additional host headers in the Internet Information Services console. With SharePoint 3 the story is a bit different. When you create a site with host header through SharePoint Central Administration, that […]
