Merry Xmas all and a happy new year.
 Im starting a new job with a different company..and hopefully there will be a good focus on Sharepoint (MOSS) and workflow. I hope to be more active on this blog as I have been bust BA’ing lately.
Merry Xmas all and thanks for reading. Drive safley.
I meant to post this before but it slipped my mind until I wanted to find it again.
I think it is a bit of an oversight on MS’s behalf not to get certification for its RM abilities before the roll out. Or is it just because I do most of my work in Government agencies where certification is the FIRST hurdle for an EDMS.
Anyway I am happy the DoD approval will happen I just hope that they will make the effort to gain certification in other countries. But this will make it easier.
Courtesy of Liam
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/11/10/15946.aspx
This is for the tablets of the world but it did my head in and took me a while to fix the display (I dont have a tablet)…
But if you press Ctrl + Alt + (any arrow key) it will roatate your screen.
This is very off topic but it is so cool.Â
 I need to have this. I wonder if you could have it on a tablet PC. It looks very fun.
 http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/10/11/computer-assisted-blackboard/
For Sharepoint 2003 onlyÂ
 I have been looking for a particular field that I want to reference in a document library event handler I am writing, to get the spelling right I triedto find a list on the net of the default field names used when a sharepoint list is created. Think I could find it easily??? noooooo.. A friend said “just write some code to return the list”. I am not a developer so I refused (but those who are a night or day developers can easily find the code on the net, im not so I only found them by accident).
Eventally I found a page that lists all the default field names for each sharepoint list type.
I have been trying to add a little more flexibility to an existing sharepoint site. Currently some webparts look at the querystring  to determine what documents should be displayed to the user. IE if the querystring has http://blahurl?Doc=Policy then the document relating to policy would be displayed.
Works well, however I wanted to be able to list documents that may have been marked as ‘Policy - Email’ or ”Policy - Leave’ etc.
 When using the default way of editing these webparts via frontpage. I selected the Filter link for the webpart I wish to edit, the only options that are available for comparing the field with the query string, were only the numeric comparisons were available in the dropdown (Equals, Is Null, Less than etc). I was after the “Contains” comparison.
I went back to the webpart in frontpage and selected web part properties and edited the Data Query Editor xml fragment. The section to change is
 <dsp:where xmlns:dsp=”Http://micorsoft…….”>
<dsp:Eq>
<dsp:FieldRef Name”Yourfield”/>
<dsp:Value Type=”xsd:string”><udc………..>
</dsp:Eq>
</dsp:where>
Change the <dsp:Eq> to <dsp:Contains> and the closing tag as well. There is another string comparison that can be used but the link where I got the info from is
It all worked well and was even reflected in the filter string visible in Frontpage.
Hope this helps someone.
I have been swayed to re-install Vista on my laptop today. Two things have tempted me to do it.
A friend has assured me that VMWare will now work on RC1, if not I will hold him personally responsible.
This post from a Sharepoint guy http://www.sharepointblogs.com/henkhooiveld/archive/2006/10/05/13386.aspx
Seems that VMWare is working on the Vista problems. I have upgraded to 5.5.2 of VMware Workstation and was pleased to see the following line in their release notes about known bugs
The following are known issues with Workstation 5.5.2, Build 29772.
Good to see they are working on the issues, hopefully they are still looking at the issue with Vista as the host and using vmware from it.
Last week or so I took the plunge and installed Vista beta 2 on my laptop. No not as a VM image but as the base operating system. I was fully prepared for the problems its is after all still beta.
It ran fine, there were the obvious speed problems the explorer did my head in, but I wanted to use it get a an understading of it with office and most of all run it with a VM with MOSS on.
BUT VM just wouldnt work properly, if I did get it working the network would not bridge to the hosts network so I couldnt connect. Then I couldnt even get it working at all due to the fact I un-installed it and re-installed it.
Since my life revolves around the use of VM Images and demos I had to grudgingly reinstall XP as the host.
My whinge is this; yes I know it is beta (I suspect more people need to be aware of this) but I did expect VM to be more helpful and forthcoming with some assistance on this as a few people have had problems. For those who want to try harder than I there is a link here.
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=426740񨋴
There are also some other posts on this forum just search for Vista +Host.
Oh Vista is still a beta if you dont like it dont use it. And wait. And wait. And wait.
This is way off topic but it is was funny.
Well Done Bill
 http://www.happychinchilla.com/wp/2006/08/04/the-naboo-email-scam/
