(Chris Grist) Quite simply feature stapling allows you to instruct SharePoint to activate features (that have been stapled), when a web is created. This can ensure certain features are always activated for particular site templates or for anything.
Tag: SharePoint / BI
SharePoint: Preventing Content Type Changes
(Mike Smith) There are many good reasons to use Content Types… if you can get people to use them, and then leave them alone.
SharePoint: Common problems when creating a new ‘Send To’ location
(Steven Andrews) SharePoint 2010 introduced the ability for SharePoint administrators to create a new “Send To” connection, which is a facility that allows a user to send a document to another location via its action menu.
SharePoint Information Architecture: The Tools of the Trade
(Steve Pogrebivsky) A fair amount of work goes into the role of a SharePoint Information Architect. And every architect should have his tools right? What does Microsoft provide out of the box, to design, deploy and manage an information architecture in SharePoint?
Bulk Tagging in SharePoint 2010
(Paul Hunt) One of the questions posted recently on the SUGUK forums was, ‘How do I get my content into SharePoint and tag it to enable search, without the pain of uploading it one by one……”
Taxonomy Planning in SharePoint 2010
(Chris Riley) Taxonomy is a difficult concept. Correctly developing taxonomy in SharePoint 2010 takes that difficulty to the next level. You’ll be surprised to learn that taxonomy development is really not all that complex but very easy to get wrong.
SharePoint: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Client Object Model
(SC Vinod) I have implemented the Client Object Model (COM) extensively in Silverlight as well as in ECMAScript. You may love or hate COM but you cannot ignore it if you are a SharePoint 2010 developer.
SharePoint 2010 at Work – Unlocking the Mysteries of the SharePoint Data View Web Part XSL Tags
(Marc D Anderson) DVWPs are sometimes called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint. If you have content in SharePoint and want to display it in unique and useful ways, the DVWP is the tool you need to understand.
SharePoint List Views
(Tahir Naveed) This post shows the use of Views.asmx web service with Lists.asmx to display a view of a list.
How to Design Different Display for View & Edit List Item
(Bobby Chang) There are certain user scenarios that would require to display a SharePoint List Item differently in View mode vs. in Edit mode. Good news is if you have SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise, this can be achieved within a few steps.