Every now and then I want to populate a SharePoint document library with files for testing purposes. To do this I have created a little console app that will take a template file and upload it x number of times to a document library, generating a ...

The guys at WSSSearch.com have got a cool little collection of tagging web parts that allow you to create tag clouds for lists in your site. The basic idea is that you add a tag column to your list, then use the tag cloud web part to display a clo...

There are several steps involved in creating a custom list definition in SharePoint 2007. These are: Create custom site columns (Optional) Create custom content types (Optional) Create custom list definition The trick is to make sure that th...

This post shows how you can use the DataView web part (aka the DataFormWebPart) to display a list of items from another SharePoint 2007 site using SharePoint designer. 1. Using SharePoint designer, insert a data view web part onto the page you wa...

When migrating content from a prototype MOSS intranet to the new production environment I hoped to be able to move documents across using the windows explorer view of document libraries provided by SharePoint 2007. Unfortunately for most of the it...

Angus pointed out that the guys at Artemis have developed a classification framework extension (codename RAPID) for MOSS.   This allows a site to have several hierarchical taxonomies for classifying content. While MOSS provides a framework for c...

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 'c...

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 > S...