Connect.Collaborate.SharePoint
Jun
28

The Administrator Training runs from 14th July

This 5-day event is designed to provide SharePoint Administrators with information and provide the skills needed to design, deploy and manage a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 implementation.

Prerequisites

The ideal students will possess knowledge of general networking concepts and have a basic understanding of the Windows SharePoint Services v3 and SharePoint Server 2007.

Register here: http://www.combined-knowledge.com.au/Booking%20Forms/Administrator/Course%20Booking.html?New%20Zealand.html

Power User Training (For End Users) 4 days July 21st to 25th 2008

This course concentrates on SharePoint 2007 from the perspective of users who will be assigned the role of a SharePoint Member and Site Owner. This course is aimed at a non‐technical user who will view, edit and contribute content to a Windows SharePoint Services Site and administer those sites.

Prerequisites

This course is aimed at delegates that have no previous experience of SharePoint. The course starts of at an introductory level and is delivered at a pace that will allow delegates to spend time learning this product and the SharePoint 2007 Site Member and SharePoint 2007 Site Owner roles.

Training will be held at Auldhouse Wellington and delivered by Craig Carpenter from Combined Knowledge UK.

Register here: http://www.combined-knowledge.com.au/Booking%20Forms/End%20User/Course%20Booking.html?New%20Zealand.html

 

Categories:

 
Jun
28

This is the product that I have installed ion WSSDemo.com. It is developed by some old colleagues of mine and I think they are onto a winner here.

As an example, my Top 100 web sites page http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx contains 100 thumbnail images but RPO tiles them into a single image and the browser only has to make 1 request rather than 100. This dramatically improves the speed with which the browser can render the page.

Image tiling is only one of the optimizations performed. It also collapses and removes duplicates in CSS and Java script files.

All RPO requires is adding a few lines to the web.config and a dll in the GAC or Bin directory.

SharePoint Runtime Page Optimizer

Categories:

 
Jun
26
At least I think http://www.wssdemo.com is going twice as fast than it used to. What do you think?
 
All will be revealed in the next couple of days...
Categories:SharePoint

 
Jun
21

I discovered something I didn't know about SharePoint. Picture Libraries create thumbnail and preview images of TIFF files.


If you want to render the TIFF images using a Data View Web Part, you need to calculate the url for the thumbnail or preview images.
For a file name of http://www.wssdemo.com/TIFF/PCR2.tiff

Thumbnail url = http://www.wssdemo.com/TIFF/_t/PCR2_tiff.jpg

Preview url = http://www.wssdemo.com/TIFF/_w/PCR2_tiff.jpg

You can create the preview image using the following in your rowview template section

<td class="ms-vb">

<xsl:variable name="PreviewURL" select="concat($HttpHost, ddwrt:UrlDirName(string(@FileRef)),'/_w/',ddwrt:UrlBaseName(concat($HttpHost, @FileRef)),'_', ddwrt:GetFileExtension(concat($HttpHost, @FileRef)),'.jpg')" />

<img src="{$PreviewURL}" />

</td>

To use the $HttpHost variable you need to add the following after the <xsl:stylesheet line near the top of the web part

<xsl:param name="HttpHost" />

Demo page

Imagine using this to store scanned images of invoices and then allowing someone (or an automated OCR process) to update custom metadata columns for the item. You could even create a linked data source to your finance records to show a single view of purchase order and accounts payable information including scanned images of the packing slip and invoice.

Categories:

 
Jun
14

My list of over 1,800 SharePoint resources uses content types to distinguish the metadata that is relevant to each type of resource (article, blog, download etc.)

If the content type is KB Article, I wanted the default display item page to be customised to render the Microsoft KB Article page in an iFrame within the list item page.
A list with content type management enabled has a folder per content in which you can create views.

Views created in the content type colders are not shown in the default list views drop-down

You can then specify the default item view per content type by right-clicking on the list folder in SharePoint Designer and select properties to set the supporting files value for the Display item form

Even though a url might link to the default page e.g. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/Resources/DispForm.aspx?ID=1534
it will redirect to the custom page automatically (try it...)

My custom view page uses a Data Form web part to display a single item. The web part is filtered by the ID Parameter from the URL and has the following code in the row view template

    <xsl:template name="dvt_1.rowview">

        <tr>

            <td>

                <xsl:variable name="urlprefix" select="substring-before(@URL, ', ')" />

                <xsl:variable name="urlpostfix" select="substring-after(@URL, ', ')" />    

                <script language="javascript">document.title="<xsl:value-of select='@Title'/>"</script> <iframe name="I1" id="I1{generate-id()}" class="MyFrame" width="100%" frameborder="0" src="{substring-before(@URL, ', ')}">Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.

                    </iframe>

            </td>

        </tr>

    </xsl:template>

Categories:

 
Jun
12

I just logged onto the https://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.mspx site for the first time in years and saw that they list the number of Certified Technology Specialists.

Qualification

Qty

MCP (all)

2,268,992

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Application Development

1,852

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration

6,384

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Application Development

1,527

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration

3,618

 

Hardly any developers but don't you IT pro's get to smug, the WSS Configuring exam should be a pre-requisite for the MOSS configuring exam, not the other way around!

So get on with it http://learning.microsoft.com/Manager/Catalog.aspx?clang=en-US&dtype=Table&Sort=PublicationDateDescending&page=1&search=sharepoint

 

Categories:

 
Jun
7

Now that there are 250 sites listed on my MOSS hosted public Internet site directory, I have decided to maintain a top 100 list with a thumbnail image of the site to enable visitors to quickly identify sites they might want to take a closer look at rather than just going by the title and brief description (a picture paints a thousand words...).

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx

There is no science behind the selection of sites that appear in the top 100, unlike Joel's Top 100 SharePoint bloggers, as I don't have access to the site statistics that would be required to rank sites by popularity. So I have just selected sites that "look good" in my opinion.

The page is driven from a Data View which shows a small bug in the way the OOTB XSLT works out the multi-column view when grouping is enabled. Instead of fixing this, I decided to add a cool image preview function when you click on a thumbnail.

Categories: