SharePlus 3.0 review

I have been a fan of SharePlus for a while now and have dedicated multiple articles to this great product. The new version got released this week and I have been pretty busy with this review because A LOT OF new features have been released. Let's go and check them out!

Enterprise edition
This is the first time that I worked with the Enterprise edition and I loved it! Click here to find out more about this edition of SharePlus, definitely worth checking out.

Enterprise Search

I really liked working with Enterprise Search because it is fast and gives you multiple search options:

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SharePoint 2010 - Document Management - Part 5

In this part of my Document Management series I would like to talk about versioning. Every list and library in SharePoint can use versioning. I will focus at the document library for this article.

Versioning will not automatically be enabled for a document library. To enable this feature you have to:

• Select the library
• Click in the ribbon at Library and Library Settings
• Click at Versioning settings

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SharePoint 2010 - Link to approval form

Every time a workflow task is assigned the assigned user will receive an e-mail:

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SharePoint 2010 - Term store and permissions

Are you also wandering what the permission structure is surrounding the term store?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/manage-permissions-and-roles-for-term-sets-HA101631579.aspx

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Office 365 and SharePoint Online - Audience compilation

I am configuring a SharePoint Online 2010 portal (Office 365) with audiences. I found out quickly there was no option for compiling audiences. I got curious how often Microsoft would start this process for you. This is the answer:

"Audience compilation happens once in 7 to 11 days"


I really hope this changes in the near future because this makes testing functionalities with audiences almost impossible.

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SharePoint 2010 - Page lay-out and Managed Metadata column

I was having issues with a new page lay-out and displaying a managed metadata column. The column got displayed like this:

CustomTag_0:TaxonomyFieldControl

This prevented my page to load correctly. I found this great article from Dave Perkinson:

http://underthehood.ironworks.com/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-how-tos-embedding-managed-metadata-page-fields-in-your-page-layouts.html

The problem is that your page layout is missing the requisite assembly reference to include the Taxonomy Picker control. You can fix this problem by adding the following reference to the top of your page layout:

<%@ Register Tagprefix="Taxonomy" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>"

This worked like a charm! Thanks Dave :-)

I also found the following solution:
http://blog.degree.no/2011/01/sharepoint-2010-adding-taxonomyfieldcontrol-to-custom-page-layout/

<%@ Register Tagprefix="Taxonomy" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

Then change the <CustomTag_0:TaxonomyFieldControl> to <Taxonomy:TaxonomyFieldControl> and off you go (remember there is a closing tag too, by the way..):

<Taxonomy:TaxonomyFieldControl FieldName="81d247d1-0373-4a2d-9e81-d4b69bf3e091" runat="server"></Taxonomy:TaxonomyFieldControl>

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SharePoint - Find the ID for a list

I had to find the ID of a list and stumbled on this blog for the instructions:

http://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/finding-the-id-guid-for-a-sharepoint-list/

"There are times when you need to find the Id (a Guid) of a list – for example, when setting the Task list to be used with SharePoint Designer Workflows (see my blog post here). Here’s a simple way of doing this:

• Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.
• Select the Settings + List Settings menu command.
• Copy the Url from the browser address bar into Notepad. It will look something like:

http://moss2007/ProjectX/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7B26534EF9%2DAB3A%2D46E0%2DAE56%2DEFF168BE562F%7D

• Delete everying before and including “List=”.
• Change “%7B” to “{” 
• Change all “%2D” to “-“
• Chnage “%7D” to “}”

You are now left with the Id:

{26534EF9-AB3A-46E0-AE56-EFF168BE562F}"

Pretty cool :)

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