Nov24
Fixing the RSS Feed
You may or may not have noticed that the RSS feed for our rollup does not work the way RSS should. The Body and Author fields are missing.
This post will address how to fix the RSS feed. All the work in this post is based on the post: How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part.
Prepare a new RSS definition
Navigate to the Style Library and open the XSL ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 06:48.
Nov23
I hate spam, though I love getting comments on my blog. CKS:EBE has a feature for spam prevention using CAPTCHA which works well, though months ago I read this post and loved the concept that spam prevention could be socially beneficial. According to the reCAPTCHA site:
"About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 23 Nov 2007 09:57.
Nov20
In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites and built a Table of Contents with the TOC web part. We still have work to do to finish our home page. Our home page wireframe calls for a Recent Posts web part. In this post we'll cover the configuration of the web part and CSS to make it pretty. The summary of the steps are:
Create a "Recent Posts" rollup
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Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 02:17.
Nov15
In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites. We created the blog sites and have added a few posts to each to prepare for the creation of our blog host home page. Now our designer has provided the requirements for the home page and we are ready to go. The summary of steps is:
Create a new home page layout
Configure a TOC web part for the "Who blogs with us...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 04:08.
Nov14
Microsoft has announced the dates for the SharePoint Conference 2008. I know this is old news to many of you but just in case it is being held in Seattle March 3-6, 2008. More information is available through www.mssharepointconference.com .
I will be attending along with many of my team mates. If this conference is as good as last years it will be GREAT, though I think it will be BETTER! (M...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007 09:59.
Nov13
Date: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Topic: Panel Discussion on Migration
Please join us for our second meeting on Wednesday, November 14th, as industry executives and subject matter authorities join us to discuss best practices and expertise in migrating to MOSS 2007.
Click here to register!
A core group Austin companies has established this User Group as a forum for SharePoint pros to ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 10:28.
Nov13
There are many "patterns" in the SharePoint work that I do. Repeatable processes that change little from client to client. One of my favorite patterns is the "Blog Host". A site collection that contains many blog sites. Like many of our favorite blog locations, our corporate customers have fairly straight forward requirements for their blog sites. Whether you plan to use the...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 09:06.
Nov10
If you have been testing Community Kit SharePoint: Enhanced blog Edition you may have found that, once enabled you cannot edit files in the master page gallery. You get this error:
Vince has posted a patch on the CKS site. Worked for me!...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 10 Nov 2007 05:38.