http://www.novolocus.com Whatever Andy Burns is working on... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A requirement that I've seen appear a few times recently is for: Automatic filtering of content that is deemed to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable is filtered. Yes, we all love a ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/15/whats-wrong-with-scunthorpe/ I was looking at something a bit curious - I wanted to change the menus in SharePoint, specifically the colour down the left hand side of the menu: As the menus are dynamic, I wasn't able to interrogate them with the IE Dev toolbar to know what styles were being applied. ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/14/changing-sharepoint-menu-colours/ A customer wants to put a web part zone below the quick nav in their SharePoint site - not an unusual request. Naturally, I cracked open SharePoint Designer, and tried adding a web part zone - and this is what I got: I tried to understand why this would be the ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/13/so-can-you-put-web-part-zones-in-master-pages-or-what/ I've been modifying SharePoint's Left nav menu, as I'm sure I've mentioned. Well, here's the before and after styling, for the curious: The next requirement that came up was to enable Dynamic menus on the left navigation. This is actually pretty easy: Open up your master page in SharePoint Designer Find the ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/10/sharepoint-enabling-dynamic-navigation-on-the-left-nav-menu/ I'm not a designer; I neither wear cool enough glasses, a turtleneck, nor sport an iPhone. But I do have to build other peoples designs, and I've noticed something - every design I get handed has rounded corners all over it. I do see their point - SharePoint is a bit, ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/09/rounded-corners-are-cool-in-sharepoint-apparently/ I've been doing some branding for the last week or so, and today was the turn of the left nav menu. I've gotta admit, I don't like doing this - it's complex, fiddly, and leaves me with what I call "SharePoint Branding Tourettes". While going through the code for the left ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/08/placeholderleftactions-what-is-it/ I ain't dead, just flat out busy. I'm working on a branding project at the moment, which I hope to write some more about. But here's a tricky little problem that I was struggling with. Our customer wanted to remove the 'Help' and 'My sites' links from the Global Links in ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/07/remove-a-separator-character-from-the-global-links/ I got a slightly obscure error message when trying to run a DeleteTask activity in my workflow: System.InvalidOperationException: Correlation value specified does not match the already initialized correlation value on declaration taskToken for activity deleteTask1. Hmm. I checked the correlation token though - and it was fine. And what's it doing initialising ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/09/26/workflow-error-systeminvalidoperationexception-and-the-correlation-token/ More workflow fun - this time caused by my using the latest Visual Studio project for building SharePoint workflows - at this time it's the one packaged in the VSeWSS3 version 1.2. Back in the days of RTM, Workflows had a rubbish Visual Studio Project - I mean, awful. "Some assembly ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/09/26/getting-infopath-forms-to-work-with-vsewss3-version-12/ SharePoint is made up of lists of items, where an item is a set of data. Here is the standard display of an item's properties: As you can see, we've got a item, and it has some fields of data, and they're being displayed inside a web part. Those fields are ... http://www.novolocus.com/2008/09/24/modify-listitem-display-to-show-referencing-items/