Nigel's Experiences With Sharepoint

Programmatically Accessing A Site Template Created Using “Save Site As A Template”

Nigel Price — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:39:00 GMT

It all started out as a simple exercise, whenever an item is added to a list, create a site using information from the list using a site template. The site template had previously been created using "Save Site As Template". Now normally the format of these site templates is as follows (%T... (More)

SPRetreat 10/07/2010 - London

Nigel Price — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 GMT

So last Saturday saw the first of what I hope will be the first of many SPRetreats. Andrew Woodward (21stApps) and Ben Robb (Cscape) organised a gathering of SharePoint people down at cScape’s London office. It’s been quite a while since I spent a whole day writing SharePoint code so was looking... (More)

Getting FAST ESP 5.3.3 working with SharePoint 2010

Nigel Price — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:42:07 GMT

I was recently asked to see if I could get FAST ESP 5.3.3 working with SharePoint 2010. So here are the steps (hoops) I went through to get this to work. First I tried just running the setup.exe that came with the FAST ESP Webparts you can download from codeplex. http://espwebparts.codeplex.com No... (More)

Upgrading a MOSS 2007 site to SharePoint 2010 (Part 2)

Nigel Price — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:48:51 GMT

When upgrading a MOSS 2007 site which has been created with features to SharePoint 2010 the question is how do you start ? Obviously you need to create the web application first, that's the easy bit. The question is what do you do next ? If you try to deploy the solution (and hence the features) usi... (More)

Upgrading a MOSS 2007 site to SharePoint 2010 (Part 1)

Nigel Price — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:03:39 GMT

I decided it was time to get my demonstrations moved from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. The demo in question used features to set up the site definition, the content types, the site columns, the Master Pages and the Page Layouts. I was looking forward to using the new SharePoint facilities in Visual... (More)

Microsoft Announces Release Date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

Nigel Price — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:14:34 GMT

Microsoft, today, have announced the timetable for the release of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will be released to manufacturing (RTM) next month. For businesses, they will launch the 2010 ... (More)

SP 2010 and IE8 – no vertical scroll bar

Nigel Price — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:28:21 GMT

I have been migrating a number of MOSS 2007 web sites to SP 2010 recently and I came across the following quirk. The site migrated OK to 2010 but then when I displayed the site using IE8 there was no vertical scroll bar even though the site disappeared off the bottom of the screen. This works OK if ... (More)

SP 2010 Master Pages and Page Layouts – A pitfall of trying to have a nicely laid out Master Page or Page Layout

Nigel Price — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:31:00 GMT

We all like the HTML / XML in our Master Pages and Page Layouts to look nice so that they are easily read. However, every so often SP 2010 trips you up and this is one of those occasions. Take the following in a Master Page or Page Layout :- You decide to layout your ViewFields as below :- V... (More)

Invalid List Template upgrading list from 2007 -> 2010

Nigel Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:12:00 GMT

Upgrading the company blog site from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010 I came across a strange error message. "Invalid List Template". The log entries looked like this :- Failed to find tag corresponding to ID "301", tried both onet.xml for site definition ID &quo... (More)

One or More FieldTypes Are Not Installed Properly After Upgrading Site From 2007 to 2010

Nigel Price — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:00 GMT

The Problem :- I had a problem with a very simple Intranet site which only had web parts in it and no variations when I upgraded it from MOSS 2007 -> SharePoint 2010. It failed with the error message "One or more fieldtypes are not installed properly". After A LOT of investiga... (More)