For some reason certain1 SharePoint lists don’t have the handy “Edit in datasheet” option available to allow bulk editing of items. One of these lists is the MOSS Picture Library which means that although images can be uploaded in bulk, users have n...

I'm pleased to say that the article I wrote a few months ago on 'how we did it: tag driven IA for MOSS' was noticed and has been re-published on the SharePoint team blog.   Read the updated article - How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Archite...

Early last year I was involved in developing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based Intranet for the Ministry of Transport. This post explains how we utilised the tagging capabilities provided by MOSS to create this award winning Intran...

If you are referencing resources such as style sheets, images, JavaScript etc in a SharePoint environment you need to be careful to ensure that URLs are relative to the current site (or site collection) so that if sites are moved the references do...

I’ve been busy over the last few weeks working on the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 Enhanced Blog Edition. We have now released the first version on CodePlex which contains many enhancements for SharePoint blogs. These enhancements includ...

The recently released SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy 2007 White Paper provides a great starting point for implementing and managing customisations in a SharePoint based environment. The paper contains a list of customisa...

This post shows how you can update the RSS feed for your SharePoint blog. This is useful if you want to take advantage of services such as feedburner that provide statistics on the number and type of subscribers a blog has. The steps involved are...

This post shows how you can customise the list of styles that are available inside a RichHtmlField control in SharePoint 2007.   As I mentioned in an earlier post the RichHtmlField has several properties that you can set to restrict users from e...

Master pages provide a great platform for branding custom SharePoint sites. By default, however, the master pages included with WSS and MOSS sites include a lot of unnecessary mark-up. As I like to keep my code as clean as possible a while ago I t...

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...