Yearly Archives for 2008

Displaying a number of items in a list

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - November 24, 2008

A customer recently approached me with a simple request: how to show total number of employees on his home page. They are using a SharePoint Contacts list as a central phone book for their company. It is an interesting use case and I will try to provide more details about…

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SharePoint Read-only licensing

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - November 21, 2008

An anonymous reader asked: Do i need cals for read-only users sharepoint server 2007? SharePoint does not recognize a read-only license. You will need to buy a CAL for each user that is accessing your data. Each client computer accessing Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Office Forms Server 2007 requires…

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Configuring Scopes Dropdown

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - November 20, 2008

In previous articles I wrote about configuring scopes in SharePoint and Search Server 2008 (Part 1 | Part 2). One additional question that I would like to explain is scopes dropwodn configuration. Configuring Scopes Scopes are controlled by Site Settings > Search Settings, here is the list of available options:…

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Send an email to workflow initator

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - November 18, 2008

A reader Ajay asked: I have a requirement where I need to send automatic emails to the submitter of the out of the box approval workflow once its finished. I tried to create SharePoint workflow for sending email in the item changed event, but no hit. Would be grateful if…

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What’s new in Microsoft CRM 5.0

Misc - Toni Frankola - November 12, 2008

Believe it or not, it is time for Microsoft CRM 5.0. It will probably be released as part of Office14 wave (target year 2010) but there is already some information about the new features. Simon Hutson a very nice post with information about new features, and from SharePoint perspective the…

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GMail now supports voice and video chat

Misc - Toni Frankola - November 12, 2008

I am sometimes really amazed with cool features of Google Applications. They have just released a new feature for GMail, that allows you to make voice and video calls from your GMail interface. Very cool :))))

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SharePoint Usage Reports explained

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 26, 2008

A reader MCT asked: Does anyone know how to translate SharePoint’s site usage reports? For example, when you generate the report called monthly summary – page, it lists “total hits.” Does this mean the total number of visits to the page? Also, if you have headers or graphics on a…

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Google, Live.com and Wikipedia Search Web Parts

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 23, 2008

In order to improve this blog I am constantly monitoring activity reports provided by Google Analytics. Few days ago I noticed that someone came to my blog by using the following keywords: add wikipedia searchbox webpart to sharepoint add google search bar to sharepoint The query seemed interesting and here…

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Configuring scopes in Microsoft Search Server 2008 – Part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 20, 2008

In Part 1 of this post I described how you can configure multiple site collections and different scopes, and in this article I will provide step-by-step guide on how to configure scopes for a site collection. As you might recall the part 1, if a user does not select a…

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