MarC on July 14th, 2010

Be sure to configure a State Service connection for the Web Application in SharePoint 2010 were you will be using Infopath browser based forms. To establish this continue with the next steps:

Choose Application Management in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and then “Configure service application associations”;
Click on the web application of your choice. You will see a box like [...]

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MarC on June 28th, 2010

I have tried many hours to make this work but I could not make it work until someone (@workerthread) reacted to one of my tweets. It can be done by using SharePoint Designer 2010 and modifying another grouping.
See this post for further details.

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MarC on April 19th, 2010

This post is a bit off topic for this blog but I’ll post it anyway as a reminder for myself and hopefully to help others who want to do the same. At a client someone had to convert a very simple, plain, flat text excel 2007 workbook to an xml file format.
I have made an [...]

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MarC on December 21st, 2009

I’ve done Infopath all day and found some limitations I would like to share. I’m designing some browser based forms so they have limitations I know off but today I found out about some unpleasant features (at least for me and my ideas how to build the forms). I have not encountered them before.
I wanted [...]

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MarC on December 1st, 2009

Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications in June 2010. The Office suite will be updated for Windows, including ribbon support for all products, and will also be launching Office 2010 for Mac OS X sometime in 2010.
Office 2010 Professional Plus, which is available for public beta, will offer [...]

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MarC on November 24th, 2009

Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]

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MarC on November 20th, 2009

The Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products went live today, which will enable customers to find an up-to-date list of all of our Service Pack, Public Update, and Cumulative Update releases in one location. While the SharePoint team blog has posted Cumulative Update package information in the past, this will be [...]

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MarC on November 19th, 2009

I’m a bit late with this “news” but  yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for our customers and partners. Millions of people can download the beta at http://www.microsoft.com/2010. 
Office Mobile 2010 has also reached the public beta milestone and is now available [...]

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MarC on November 6th, 2009

A nice list I have to use quite a lot in SharePoint and Infopath is the all currencies list. I don’t know anymore where I found it but you can download it here at information-worker.nl.
Download the list.

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MarC on November 2nd, 2009

Download it here

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