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SharePoint 2013 Colour Calendar

Mark Wilson — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:09:54 +0000

I’ve had a few requests for this now SharePoint 2013 is fully released I have produced a script to colour code the calendars in SharePoint 2013. It should work with both Server and Foundation. It is very similar to the 2010 version of the script with an updated script. The only change in the script [...]

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Making the SharePoint 2010 My Site status more like Twitter

Mark Wilson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:53:00 +0000

The out of the box status update in the My Profile page of SharePoint 2010 servers its purpose of allowing end users to update their status and let everyone know what they are up to. However it is a little disconcerting in the way it works in that one the user starts typing, any clicking [...]

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Clearing pages from output cache in SharePoint 2010

Mark Wilson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:12:00 +0000

In this previous blog post I described how the anonymous page base class could be used to create a page that allowed you to push pages out of the site output cache on a publishing site. That was for MOSS but it can easily be made to work in SharePoint 2010. As before, copy and [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Colour Calendar post SP1 update

Mark Wilson — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:30:00 +0000

This is a slightly updated post for the colour calendar script which should work with the more items link and also with post-SP1 installations. I have slightly changed the process for doing this to try and minimise the issues people were having with URLs in the links. 1) Create a new calculated field on the [...]

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SSD Goodness and SharePoint Virtual Machines

Mark Wilson — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:11:00 +0000

As you may or may not know my machine of choice is a Macbook Pro. I became a convert a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back. I just prefer them for normal day to day use and the hardware is fantastic. Recently I upgraded to a new 17″ Macbook Pro with matt screen [...]

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Clearing individual pages from output cache in a publishing site

Mark Wilson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:08:00 +0000

If you are using MOSS for a public facing internet site, the chances are you are using page output caching to increase scalability and performance. If you aren’t you certainly should be. Page output caching is a feature of ASP.NET which MOSS overlays it’s own control over the top. Under site collection settings you can [...]

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MOSS publishing sites and download aspx file problem – part 2

Mark Wilson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:18:00 +0000

As you may recall in this earlier blog post I had come across a problem where certain browsers put pages into output cache with slightly different HTTP response headers which caused issues for subsequent users to that page with normal browsers. This turned out to be ASP.NET and not IIS or MOSS. It was all [...]

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Annoying content source bug

Mark Wilson — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:35:00 +0000

I recently came across this annoying bug when setting up content sources recently. If you try and specify multiple start addresses which differ only by query string then you get an error. The error is “the object you are trying to create already exists. try again using a different name” It seems that SharePoint uses [...]

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MOSS publishing sites and download aspx file problem

Mark Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:12:00 +0000

A project I was working on recently experienced a peculiar problem where users would browse to a page and be prompted to download the page e.g. save home.aspx somewhere locally. This was a MOSS publishing internet public facing site with multiple web front ends and page output caching set up. The downloaded page was not [...]

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SharePoint site columns and a mngfield.aspx error

Mark Wilson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:43:00 +0000

I came across an interesting SharePoint bug recently when deploying custom site columns to a site collection. Some people were complaining that they couldn’t get my colour calendar solution to work properly on their systems. That when they installed they got an error trying to view the site column gallery. It turns out that there [...]

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New release of colour (color) calendar v2.3

Mark Wilson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:23:00 +0000

A new release of the colour calendar. Here are the changes:- Field naming changes in the UI to make them more user friendly. Event Category Title field does not appear when viewing details of an event. Enable width fix option on colour coding web part – this implements the fix required to allow you to [...]

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Another MacBook Pro convert…

Mark Wilson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:22:00 +0000

There seems to be a spate of posts like this extolling the virtues of MacBook Pros and here is another! I needed a new laptop as I recently switched jobs and need my own kit now. After first trying a Dell M1530 (horrible screen) and then a Zepto (Scandinavia’s largest laptop manufacturer! why oh why [...]

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Version 2 of the Colour (color) Calendar Released

Mark Wilson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:30:00 +0000

I have finished working on what I hope is the final version of the colour calendar. The previous version was well received but was lacking in a couple of areas. Firstly it required the creation of custom calendar lists. The custom list was based on the in-built calendar list but was missing some of the [...]

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ItemCount and Items.Count

Mark Wilson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:46:00 +0000

Noticed a strange thing the other day, a list has the property ItemCount and also an Items collection which has its own .Count but they don’t always give the same answer. If I have a piece of code like this pointing to a list with 4 items in it. 1 using (SPSite site = new [...]

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Updated colour (color) calendar for SharePoint 2007

Mark Wilson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:07:00 +0000

This article has also been superceded by an updated V2 version which be found here. I have finished the new version of the SharePoint 2007 colour calendar. Here are some of the features:- - Built as a SharePoint solution.- New web part to do the colour coding, no messing with Javascript.- New type of list [...]

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TechEd Barcelona

Mark Wilson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:19:00 +0000

I am over here at TechEd Barcelona at the moment, there have been some great SharePoint sessions from people like Patrick Tisseghem and Ted Pattison. Ted’s session yesterday on security really cleared up a few things for me around the difference between WSS users and Windows users. You can download the source for his demo [...]

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SharePoint Debug Switcher

Mark Wilson — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:39:00 +0000

I recently decided to build a little solution to more easily switch on debugging on a web application in SharePoint. Currently there are four different places to switch on in web.config for debug info. These are the call stack setting, the debug compilation settings and the custom errors setting. SharePoint luckily provides an API we [...]

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SharePoint 2003 colour (color) calendar

Mark Wilson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:29:00 +0000

In a previous post I mentioned that I had created a colour-coded (or color-coded if you are from the US) version of the in built SharePoint 2003 calendar. (You can find the MOSS/WSS v3 version of the colour calendar here) I have had quite a few requests to provide the 2003 solution and although my [...]

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SharePoint 2007 colour (color) calendar

Mark Wilson — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:50:00 +0000

ATTENTION! This article has been superceded by an updated deployable version which be found here. The in-built calendar view is SharePoint 2007 is a heck of a lot better than the one in 2003 but it still lacks a feature requested by many customers – the ability to colour (or color for our US friends) [...]

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How to add a picker to the send to other location screen

Mark Wilson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:44:00 +0000

Update: Although the soution here is not strictly supported as I modified core.js to quickly demonstrate the functionality, the note at the end of the post shows how to make it a supported change. Just thought I would mention this as some people have been commenting about unsupported changes…. The standard send to other location [...]

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The trial period for this product has expired.

Mark Wilson — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:51:00 +0000

So I have MOSS RTM installed on a machine and I attempt to kick off a publish workflow on the home page of a portal that I just edited and I get an error “The trial period for this product has expired” Now a quick look around and some other people have also experienced this [...]

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VSTO Deployment Woes

Mark Wilson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:30:00 +0000

Sooooo we are developing a VSTO 2005 SE plugin which needs to work in Outlook 2003 and 2007. So far so good. But what about deployment? You normally need to set CAS policy for the add-in so it is trusted by Outlook and will run. Microsoft even give an ecxample of how to do this [...]

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Getting email functionality with MOSS without Exchange

Mark Wilson — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:04:00 +0000

Often when building a MOSS VPC you would like to have email functionality. Under SPS 2003 this meant making the server a domain controller and installing Exchange, SPS 2003 happily co-existed with Exchange. This won’t work with MOSS however as it relies on looking at the local SMTP drop folder. Exchange takes over the SMTP [...]

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