Browser Favourites can execute JavaScript function which are available in the Browser page. SharePoint is built upon loads of JavaScript.
Executing: javascript:MSOTlPn_ShowToolPane(’2′) with a Favourite link can save some valuable time.
The Check-in / Check-out functionality in a publish site can so annoying when prototyping a site.
With a SharePoint Designer Macro we can create a one-button Checkin/Checkout button.
No more need for an extra click in the Checkin dialog-box. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes there are easy solutions to easy problems. All it takes is a little thinking outside of the box.
Prerequisites/knowledge:
| SharePoint: | Intermediate |
| HTML: | Advanced |
| JavaScript: | Intermediate/advanced |
| .Net: | None |
In a SharePoint entry form the user can select multiple values from a list. This should include an “All” option so in a long list the user can select or de-select all values with one click.
| So the interface should look like: |  |
Give this functional design to a SharePoint developer and he/she will come up with either:
Sharing knowledge (the good old days)
In the good old days I used to be a multimedia-developer. All through the nineties I felt happy in the “Macromedia” (now part of Adobe) world.
Used to working with the Internet (and intranet) in an educational setting it was amazing to see commercial companies struggle with the concept of “sharing” information.
Since 1992 I have been a member of several LISTSERV email lists. Remember EDTECH-L (founded 1989)? Where we discussed the possibilities of this ‘thing’ called WWW and its practical use in educational environments.
Macromedia UCON96
Joe Ganci, Dr. Mike Allen (Father of Authorware)
Peter Arien and Danny Engelman
In 1993 I became the founding father of AWARE (previously AWARE-L), THE community for Macromedia Authorware developers. I estimate we had about 300 members then.
At over $2000 dollars, Authorware wasn’t something you bought on a Monday morning, so it took some time before the developers grasped that sharing information was actually the right thing to do.
But they did.
Membership soured and to date it’s members still claim the AWARE email list (now scoped to e-learning technologies in general) is one of the best, helpfull and friendliest resources around (besides Joe Ganci)
SharePoint
After taking a 2 year sabbatical travelling around the world to visit AWARE and other friends; I returned in a world where sharing information slowly became something that everyone could do easily.
I had to write my own “blog” software for my world trip, when I returned I could do it from Microsoft-Word.
Lotus LearningSpace, Blackboard etc. There was no standard.
For private projects I do use Google Apps and Joomla.
But in a commercial setting, where Microsoft rules on the Desktop, SharePoint is my preferred tool for Information sharing and Knowledge management.
As I wrote on my personal blog, I’m not one to duplicate information in the blogosphere. This SharePoint blog will slowly fill up with information I couldn’t find within 30 minutes searching the net or is so valuable (yes to me) I couldn’t resist writing a blog post.
