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A while ago, I wrote an article for SharePoint Briefing (www.sharepointbriefing.com) that describes how to create an image rotator in SharePoint. Here’s a teaser: Read the whole article here: http://sharepointbriefing.com/spcode/article.php/3861121/Create-an-Image-Rotator-in-SharePoint-Using-jQuer

After the initial idea that we should all have a party, a few things have come together. Sorry about the DNS issue for those that noticed. That’s a reminder of my anniversary. It’s been 2 years since this blog launched. Happy anniversary to the readers of SharePointJoel.com, we’ve come a long way!

Hi All,Finally result is out. We asked people about problem that they face while using other browser than IE as far as SharePoint is concern. And it looks like MS has to work a lot on this fix. Well, let’s hope the next version 2010 does not have any browser problems.Thank you for your responses.

Body: Well, back in January I posted on www.undusersharepoint.com a solution for adding custom tool tips on a SharePoint page. I forgot to post it on my blog as well. So here is a link to the article and to my example page: Article: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/01/19/sharepoint-tooltip-

Body: When it's a Live Labs Pivot. I have created an image pivot from screen shots of more than 1,500 SharePoint powered Internet sites. You can download Live Labs Pivot from ... Published: 20/03/2010 5:37 p.m.

I am currently working on the next release of the Image Rotator that I plan to release this month. I have already identified a couple improvements that will make their way in the new version. There are many image rotators available on the Web – I have built a couple myself. The interest of th

I will be doing a SharePoint Designer 2010 eLearning Series which consists of three webcasts, including Q&A for each, on April 20th. This eLearning series is being produced by the folks at Windows IT Pro. Here are the three sessions: 11:00 am ET: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5

Managing business risk and achieving regulatory compliance are among the greatest challenges that enterprises face.

“Use jQuery to Kill Spell Checker in SharePoint Lists” – that’s the title of a recent article of mine that the good folks at www.sharepointbriefing.com posted earlier this month. Here’s a teaser: Read about how and why I wanted to kill the poor spelling checker here: http://sharepointbriefing.com

Have you ever noticed that in SharePoint views, when selecting to view “Totals”, calculated columns aren’t listed as an option for column totals?

Over the last few days or so, Christina Wheeler (@cwheeler76)  and I were trying to figure out why my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) wouldn’t work when SharePoint was enabled for anonymous access.  I had always assumed that it was just one of those things.&#

Abstract: Category: Building Solutions;SharePoint 2010;Site Admin;Team Sites Published: 3/19/2010 1:15 PM # Comments: 0

With 55 days left till the official May 12th Launch, I was thinking. Man I really need to throw a party. I can’t be the only one who’s bummed about not being able to be at the press event. I’m so excited about the launch of SharePoint 2010 and what it brings, I was thinking why not celebrate this w

Today I am releasing a new, beta version of the Easy Tabs: http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Easy-Tabs-Lite.aspx For a live demo, go to the Path to SharePoint home page. Why Lite? I am maintaining two flavors of the Easy Tabs. This one is public, written in plain JavaScr

This is a quick sketch of how to setup diversified dashboards for different levels of users by creating a Dashboards document library, holding multiple web part pages.

During the course of a customization and branding effort in SharePoint you are likely to find that you want to style web parts to look different from (Dare I say better than?) the stylistic treatment default to SharePoint.

Next week we’ve got a full schedule of EUSP Live Online Workshops. If you haven’t tried one of these before, our format is pretty simple:

I see the question posted fairly often asking what kind SharePoint team an organization should have.

My home town. Yeah! : ) Let's talk about the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon... Read the details on the SharePoint Saturday site. <Todd />

I was preparing today to give a demonstration on SharePoint 2010 focusing on SPD 2010 workflows. As I was prepping, I hit this error when I tried to run a workflow manually: The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For mor

Hi All,In previous parts, we saw how to deal with custom activities main validation logic, execution logic and some cosmetic tips. We will carry on some nice look and feel for the custom activity in this post as well.If you haven’t gone through the previous post, then I recommend reading Creating

Want to learn more about how to control SPD 2010 usage across your SharePoint sites? Check out this video tutorial for managing SharePoint Designer to get a comprehensive rundown. For more helpful tips and tricks, please also visit the Get the Point blog or their YouTube channel. Enjoy!

I’ve been working on this for a while and finally decided it doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect before letting people use it. EUSP, along with fpWeb.net, is sponsoring a SharePoint Community Calendar.

Are you at the SharePoint Pro 2010 Summit this week? If yes, I would love to see at any of the 3 sessions that I’ll be doing tomorrow: HDEV04: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5 Great Things to Know! HDEV05: Overview: Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath and

This is a jQuery script I wrote that looks at each web part on the page and, based on each web part's chrome setting, adds containers around the web parts.

Laura Rogers, known as the Queen of the Data View Web Part, is conducting an EUSP Live Online Workshop this Friday starting at 1:00pm EST. Dynamic Feedback Forms in SharePoint is a hands-on workshop using SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint Designer.

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Dynamics CRM tips and tricksHello everyone… It’s been a while, but I’m finally back with more words of CRM wisdom: Here at Fpweb.net, we’re hard at work gearing up for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 TAP program, and the most common question

Last year, I published a sample script that changes the layout of boxed views from two columns to a single column. Several readers reported that it didn’t work for them. Larry Pfaff investigated the issue, and came up with the following update: <script type="text/javascript">

In the last few days, I’ve had two positive experiences with this. I don’t see the point of just flaming about a product on Twitter unless it’s done something truly egregious. However, pointing out an issue seems like fair game. In both cases, I think my tweets were pretty much OK

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… When I made my initial pass through the XSL tags for this series, I missed a few. The example XSL I used in Parts 1 through 11 was very basic: just what you’ve get if you added a DVWP to a page to display the Title column of a list and that was [...]

Very excited to announce the SharePoint Conference in Peru. This will be my first realized opportunity to speak in South America. I mentioned earlier this year I was interested in helping support the SharePoint LATAM community, and I think this is a good step in that direction. I should mention as

Jim Bob Howard (@jbhoward) always asks me good questions. Today he was interested in setting the value of a People Picker on a form with script. I pointed him at my old post about doing it with JavaScript, but we’re jQuery buddies, so I wanted to give him some jQuery instead. That and the fac

I know you’ve heard a lot from me about The Experts Conference in LA. As track owner, it’s kind of my job to make sure the word gets out. In fact today we just signed up Owen Allen to head up one of the panel’s with Mark Miller and Mike Gannotti. Definitely looking forward to it. Before TEC takes o

Just found out my Interview on TechNet radio was featured on the home page of TechNet. Pretty cool. Here are the details of the interview by Chris Caldwell… “In this episode of TechNet Radio, our host John Baker interviews Joel Oleson, Sr. Product Manager and SharePoint Evangelist at Quest Software

Body: Thanks for joining me on the SharePoint Performance session. As promised, below you’ll find the Q&A and all applicable links for getting at the content. You can download or view the deck on SlideShare.Net: Optimizing SharePoint 2007/2010 Performance for IT Professionals You can also vie

I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).

In a previous post entitled Displaying a Multi-Select Column “Nicely”, I gave a recursive XSL function which split apart the values in a multi-select column and gave you the option to separate them with any separating text you chose. In the comments on that post, I recently was asked ho

I was interviewed by a collection of SharePoint enthusiasts last week and was asked a number of very interesting questions about the current and next releases of SharePoint.  The one I found most intriguing was “With all the great features in SharePoint 2010, what do you think is the one thing

Bjørn Furuknap announced the faculty of the new USPJ Academy today.  I’m excited about that because I’m one of the faculty members! Bjørn reached out to me back in January about joining up with the Academy, and after talking through his plans in person at the SharePoint Technology

Connecting the Disconnected with SharePoint 2010 Tour Sneak Peek Event: Welcome to the New World of Business Collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010Guest Speaker: Joel Oleson SCOTTSDALE AZ When: Tuesday, March 23, 2010Where: The Venue of Scottsdale7117 E. 3rd AvenueScottsdale, AZ 85251Time: 1

Abstract: Category: Business Intelligence;SharePoint 2010 Published: 3/15/2010 12:02 PM # Comments: 0

Yesterday I showed you a neat way to hide/show some content based on authentication level and/or the page mode. The cool thing about it was that whenever the control was hidden, the child controls didn’t get instantiated at all preventing you from any kind of performance penalty. Today, when I read

Excel Services !Its one of the most powerful feature of MOSS 2007. But have you tried to have a look into it?If not , this article explains you the basic steps required to get hands on experience with Excel services. What all is required is listed below:1. Shared Service Provider (SSP).2. Excel fi

For serious SharePoint 2007 Business Data Catalog application work, there is really only one competitive tool available, BDC Meta Man from Lightning Tools. If you’ve attended one of my user group or SharePoint Saturday presentations on the BDC, you’ve heard the same. However, I was reminded I had

Thanks again to those who joined me last March 9, 2010 for a special SPTechCon webcast on "Best Practices in SharePoint User Management". In the presentation, I discussed the fundamentals of SharePoint membership and permissions; effective techniques in identifying user communicatio... (More)

Hi All,As we are approaching to some final posts of the series, I feel happy to share these posts with you all and make you aware of all things related to custom activity.If you have not read previous articles, I recommend you reading Creating custom activity in Workflow Part – 1 First.Here in th

As I posted last week, I’m going to start certifying the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) functions for use with SharePoint 2010. In thinking through how best to do that, I realized that I needed a good, clear way to indicate what I’ve tested and whether there are

About a year ago I wrote about the inconvenience of the SPSecurityTrimmedControl: a great idea within the SharePoint framework that unfortunately doesn’t work the way it should. Now, as we’re about to get a new release of SharePoint, I decided to check if things have changed. What makes SPSecurityT

It has come around quickly. It is yet again time for the annual Mastering SAP Technologies conference (22-24 March), this year to take place in Sydney. It is always a great event bringing together the SAP technical community and I am really looking forward to it. Like last year, I will be deliverin

Body id is a cool webdesign trick that allows designers to easily alter the layout of a page using nothing more than a single property and some CSS styling. Using the body id you can define one HTML page structure for the whole site and then, by changing the single value of the body id [...]