What is Script.aculo.us? Script.aculo.us gives developers a new way to code in JavaScript by providing new shortcut functions, new powerful objects including Form, Effect, Control and Ajax, and some custom widgets. It’s an add-on to the Prototype.js JavaScript library. What is Prototype? Prototype by itself is a very well thought out and implemented library of [...]
Continue Reading →How to Change the Default Page to Create a Redirect
During a recent migration from SPS2003 to MOSS, the question came up of how to redirect users to old content while the team site was still being cut over. Scenario: I have SPS2003 running on http://oldserver and MOSS running on http://newserver. What I needed to do was create place holders for certain sites so that [...]
Continue Reading →SPWeb.SiteUsers vs SPWeb.Users
Update: I recently ran into this issue again and discovered that there is in fact a way to ensure that the user exists before creating the user object — the EnsureUser method of the SPWeb class. According to MSDN this method “Checks whether the specified login name belongs to a valid user of the Web [...]
Continue Reading →How to Troubleshoot SharePoint Designer in Contributor Mode
I recently ran into an issue where I needed to use SharePoint Designer to add a workflow to a list within a site. However, if I opened the site within SharePoint Designer, it would load in Contributor mode thus preventing me from creating any workflows. Here is my scenario: Backed up a site collection from [...]
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