Custom Site Template – Be careful otherwise “A list, survey, discussion board, or document library with the specified title already exists in this Web site. Please choose another title.”

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

When creating a custom site template we will normally need to create our own webtemp file. Within the webtemp file we will need to specify the ID for our custom site template and that ID (based on Microsoft’s recommendation) needs to be bigger than 10000.
 
Tracking these IDs aren’t that easy either especially when we need to [...]

Custom Site Template – Be careful otherwise “A list, survey, discussion board, or document library with the specified title already exists in this Web site. Please choose another title.”

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

When creating a custom site template we will normally need to create our own webtemp file. Within the webtemp file we will need to specify the ID for our custom site template and that ID (based on Microsoft’s recommendation) needs to be bigger than 10000.
 
Tracking these IDs aren’t that easy either especially when we need to [...]

Sharepoint 2010 List, Content Types and Columns – What’s the Verdict?

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

We all know that content types and fields are handled poorly in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. When we add them to a list then trying to add new fields, etc most of the time it will break. But it’s now all different with SP 2010.
Read more on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-list-content-types-and.html.

Sharepoint 2010 List, Content Types and Columns – What’s the Verdict?

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

We all know that content types and fields are handled poorly in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. When we add them to a list then trying to add new fields, etc most of the time it will break. But it’s now all different with SP 2010.
Read more on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-list-content-types-and.html.

Upgrade Add-In for Sharepoint Visual Studio 2010 Project Template

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

By default VS 2010 Sharepoint 2010 project template doesn’t come with upgrade option. I have ripped off the code of Microsoft website.
More on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/upgrade-add-in-for-sharepoint-visual.html.

Sharepoint 2010 – Clever – Has Re-Ghost Page Functionality

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

You will have to use Gary Lapointe’s custom STSADM command to re-ghost a file but SP 2010 has now had this functionality built in.
More on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-clever-has-re-ghost.html.

Disable Approval on Publishing Site Template

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

In MOSS 2007/2010, when you create a root site collection you can select the OOTB Publishing Site template. By default it enables approval workflow on the Pages list.
Read more on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/disable-approval-on-publishing-site.html.

Sharepoint 2010 Bugs and What Can Be Improved

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

Several bugs I’ve found so far:

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_29.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_1211.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_28.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_5407.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_9435.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_3613.html

http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be_26.html

Sharepoint Designer 2010 BETA Reusable Workflow

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

This is a cool functionality of Sharepoint Designer 2010 where you can create reusable workflows. So, there will be no more need to re-create workflow on Prod once you’ve done it on Test.
Read more on http://sp2010journal.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-beta-reusable.html.

Designing and Developing Professional Websites

February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by tommysegoro

Sharepoint is an another website technology really. I dedicate the following blog for information about designing and developing professional websites:

http://prowebdevelopment.blogspot.com.

Please take a look if you’re interested.
Cheers,
Tommy