Hi all While I’d like to claim credit for the wisdom in this post, alas I cannot. One of Seven Sigma’s consultants (Daniel Wale) worked this one out and I thought that it was blog-worthy. Before I get into the …

A lesser known way to fine-tune SharePoint search precision… Read more »

Hey there. Welcome to part 3 of my series on SharePoint customisation using JavaScript and web parts. So here is the lowdown so far. We are trying to find an effective, repeatable way to easily customise SharePoint form pages, so …

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Hi again. JavaScript sucks! There I said it. Despite me hating it as a programming language, I can’t deny that in SharePoint, it does have its uses. CleverWorkArounds Coffee requirement of this post depends on how much you hate JavaScript. …

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Well, here we are! After delving into dark arts where everybody but metrosexual web designers fear to tread (HTML and CSS), we then delved into the areas that metrosexual web designers truly fear to tread (packaging, deployment and even some …

SharePoint Branding Part 7 -The ‘governance’ of it all.. Read more »

So, here we are at the fifth article in my series on SharePoint branding. By now, we have left all the master page stuff way behind, and we have created a custom feature to install our branding to a server. …

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Welcome to the fourth article in my series on SharePoint branding. Sorry for the time it’s taken to get this one out, but a certain game called “The Legend of Zelda:  Hourglass Phantom” on NDS got in the way. I …

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After a web designer applied a new master page to a site, he killed the site. We saw these messages (debug logging was enabled on the site) Server Error in ‘/’ Application. ——————————————————————————– Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during …

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Welcome to the third article (or is it a manifesto?) in my series on SharePoint branding. In this article, we continue examining methods to incorporate CSS files into master pages for clever branding. In my first article of this topic, …

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Jeez if I had realised how long it would take to write these damn articles, I probably wouldn’t have started! In my first article of this topic, I discussed the theory behind master pages, the publishing feature, and what I …

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