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Fixes for Office 2003 with SharePoint

Posted by on April 16, 2008 No comments

Recently, I bumped in to some interesting fixes for problems Office 2003 users have when working with SharePoint:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;950292: if you are using Office 2003 to save documents to a SharePoint library that has multiple content types enabled, this fixes a script error when selecting the content type: ‘length’ is null or not an object. Also, in the web file properties screen, the content type you selected, is also selected in the web file properties dialog.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422: if you are exporting a list to Excel, you get “cannot get the list schema column property from the sharepoint list”.

Please note that these all require SP1 to be installed.

What people are saying… Definition extraction

Posted by on March 26, 2008 No comments

Today, I noticed a SharePoint Search feature I did not  know yet: I was looking for the meaning of an abbreviation using the SharePoint Search center, and at the bottom of the first page of my search results a link showed up: What people are saying. After clicking the link, it showed me a perfect definition, and links to the documents were it was found. Cool!

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This is what I can find in the Microsoft documentation: the Definition Extraction feature finds definitions for candidate terms and identifies acronyms and their expansions by examining the grammatical structure of sentences that have been indexed (for example, NASA, radar, modem, and so on). It is only available for English.

This means that during the crawling, the MOSS indexer is checking content for sentences like “X is ….”, and recognises them as a definition. It does not seem to be very configurable, but you can turn it off in the settings of the Search Core Results web part. Just uncheck Display Discovered Definition.

 

Store it in SharePoint or not?

Posted by on January 12, 2008 No comments

One of the “frequently asked questions in a SharePoint course is “should I store it in SharePoint or not?”

There are some simple guidelines: these files don’t really belong in SharePoint:

  • very large files (there is a limit of 2 GB)
  • files that are linked
  • executable files

Joel Oleson posted a great overview.

Whiskey and SharePoint…

Posted by on November 9, 2007 No comments

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A gold mine, not a coal mine

Posted by on August 30, 2007 No comments

I came across an interesting article that discusses the results of a survey about the satisfaction of business users with their company intranet. As a SharePoint site owner, it is good to have a look a the top 5 of things people want on their intranet:

  1. people information
  2. procedures, policies…
  3. forms
  4. employee benefits
  5. organisation news

Also interesting is the list of improvements:

  1. better content organisation
  2. easier to find information
  3. better search
  4. clear intranet strategy
  5. getting rid of outdated content

If you keep these in mind, you make your intranet a gold mine, not a coal mine.

References:
http://www.6minutes.be/NL/Artikel.aspx?ArtikelID=7910&RubriekID=35

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/la/mcgovern_intranet_survey.pdf