SharePoint FieldNotes (Steve Curran)

Advanced Search retreats

steveC — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Technorati Tags: MOSS , Search In software development one of the key rules is not to take functionality away from users. However, if you do then you should document the fact. The new infrastructure update removes the "Contains" and "Does...(read more)

SPWeb.ProcessBatchData. A list is a list is a list?

steveC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:40:05 GMT

Technorati Tags: SharePoint Development , WSS There is a lot of material on the Internet about the Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.ProcessBatchData method. It is a great method for processing a lot of commands against a SPList without having to open a SPListItemCollection...(read more)

Check Outs Gone Crazy

steveC — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:43 GMT

Technorati Tags: MOSS , WSS , Document Management It seems to be easy to have a lot of documents checked out in SharePoint 2007, yet nobody knows about them except the person who uploaded the document. SharePoint 2007 lets you upload documents first and...(read more)

Office 2003 files are second class citizens in SharePoint 2007

steveC — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:17:54 GMT

Technorati Tags: MOSS WSS Office Document Management There are many ways to upload files to SharePoint 2007 and they all seem to work well. Unless your using Office 2003 or later. Uploading files to SharePoint can be done many ways including the upload...(read more)

SPSiteDataQuery limited to 10 document libraries confirmed by Microsoft

steveC — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:07:01 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS SharePoint Search In previous posts I talked about the inaccurate results received when using the SPSiteDataQuery with more than 10 document libraries or lists. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/07/24/spsitedataquery...(read more)

Setting a Custom Edit Form for a Content Type

steveC — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:10:54 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS SharePoint This post is about a quirk regarding setting a custom edit form for a content type in a document library. There was a great post by Ton Stegeman http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/10/29/15374.aspx regarding...(read more)

SPSiteDataQuery limited to 10 document libraries work around

steveC — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:26:28 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS SharePoint Search In one of my last posts I talked about the limitations of using SPSiteDataQuery with more than 10 document libraries or lists. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/07/24/spsitedataquery-limited-to-10...(read more)

Deep Dive SharePoint 2007 Object Model

steveC — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:25:56 GMT

Technorati Tags: MOSS , WSS , SharePoint Development , Discoverability , Testing A big topic these days is about "Discoverability" and the .Net framework. Developers talk about how big the .Net framework has become with 2.0, 3.0 and now 3.5...(read more)

SPSiteDataQuery limited to 10 document libraries or lists

steveC — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:28:20 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS SharePoint Search In previous posts I talked about the pitfalls of searching in WSS or MOSS. I wanted to report one more limitation we have discovered when doing cross-list searches in WSS using the SPSiteDataQuery object. The SPWeb...(read more)

Making your SharePoint applications Information Management Policy Aware

steveC — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:35:37 GMT

Technorati Tags: WSS , MOSS , SharePoint , Information Management Office SharePoint Server 2007 shipped with a powerful new document management feature called "Information Management Policies". Information management policies can be applied...(read more)

Custom Cross-List Search Development Pitfalls (Part Two)

steveC — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:20:00 GMT

In my previous post Custom Cross-List Search Development Pitfalls (Part One) I talked about the importance of managing Meta data in order to provide effective ways for users to search for documents. Meta data can be managed via "Managed Properties"...(read more)

Custom Cross List Search Development Pitfalls (Part One)

steveC — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:17:00 GMT

This is the first of two posts about developing custom cross-list search solutions using either MOSS or WSS 3.0. The two part series will compare and contrast developing cross-list search solutions with MOSS and WSS. This will include issues you should...(read more)