SharePoint posts from the Provoke team
Our team at Provoke have started blogging. Ari and Zac have the following SharePoint developer related posts. If you are a developer starting out on SharePoint development then I recommend reading their blogs.
Ari has the following posts about his experience with SharePoint development and a few tips.
**Locking down RichHtmlField styles in SharePoint **
How to lockdown html styles for the WISYWYG editor in MOSS
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=6
**Date Formats in SharePoint **
To ensure that dates are formatted correctly across your WSS or MOSS site there are a couple of settings you may need to change.
First of all the regional settings should reflect the current locale. This can be changed from Site Actions > Site Settings > Regional Settings and ensuring the locale is correct. This should ensure all controls that display dates are formatted correctly. http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=10
**Using Nested Master Pages in SharePoint (My favourite) **
One cool feature of master pages is that you can use nested master pages to keep global elements together, but have separate master pages for each sub site. The basic idea is to create a ‘parent’ master page that defines the page structure, and ‘child’ master pages that extend certain content placeholders defined in the parent master page. Your content pages then provide content for the content placeholders defined in the child master pages.
You can download Ari’s nested master page from his blog.
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7
**Invalid look-up value error when uploading content **
Tip for overcoming the issue of bulk moving documents.
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=12
**Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 List Definition **
There are several steps involved in creating a custom list definition in SharePoint 2007. These are:
The trick is to make sure that the list definition is based on a content type that contains all the site columns required in the list definition (or the columns will not show up in the ‘add new item’ form). So the first two steps can be avoided if your list definition is based on existing site columns and content types.
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14
Guide to making SharePoint XHTML Compliant (Ueber cool article)
Zac has very good article on “Guide to making SharePoint XHTML Compliant”
He has been working very closely with the local Microsoft guys doing a project which will provide the New Zealand public sector with some cool MOSS “features” shall we say J. More on this later, I don’t want to ruin the launch.
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Zac/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5
Zac is also now part of the CKS 2.0 development team with Lawrence Liu of the Microsoft SharePoint team. The FBA feature we built for WSS/MOSS is now getting integrated to CKS 2.0 and will be available to the SharePoint community.
If you are going to TechEd Orlando be sure to catch up with Zac as he will be there representing Provoke and New Zealand.
**Excel Services and Data Connection Libraries **
Brendon has this post about Excel Services on MOSS. Brendon uses Excel and Reporting services a lot since he’s our manager. So he loves to ‘fiddle’ around in Excel. And now that he’s found Excel Services he’s on a league of his own. Keep checking his blog. J
http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/brendon/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11