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Welcome to my blog!

Hallo world and welcome to my first shot ever on a public, online blog!I start by giving a short introduction to myself. I'm male and married, live in Denmark, work as a IT guy @ LEGO. I've worked a...

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InfoPath properties and SharePoint columns

I just hate it when there's no logic explanation!Had an InfoPath form, published to SharePoint, needed to add some new fields, created the matching Site Columns, promoted the fields to the new columns,...

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Display the version number on your InfoPath form

Tired of not really knowing if the InfoPath form you're looking at is the latest version?Here's a simple trick to display the info.On your form find a suitable place to add a textbox (I place mine at...

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Creating logging for workflows and eventhandlers

When dealing with workflows you often have the abillity to do debugging in your DEV environment, but when it comes to eventhandlers things get a litle more grumsy. And fully testing every possible...

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Cascading dropdown lists and error 401

Until recently we successfully used the tip from Ishai Sagi on cascading lists, but suddenly our users reported getting a error when trying to use the drill down Master-Detail dropdown lists.Looking at...

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To Dispose or not to Dispose - that's the question

It's a good coding practice to tidy up after yourself to not waste system resources and there's good resources out there to help you learn the techniques. One of my favorites is...

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Creating a document expiration view

It's a scenario we all know; documentation has to be kept updated, test reports has to be fresh and valid and so on. So how do you ensure that? Here's a little hint on creating a view that will display...

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Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista x64 SP1

I'm installing SharePoint 2010 on a Windows Vista x64 SP1 and is getting the 'allowInsecureTransport' error on the create sample data pass of the configuration wizard. Unfortunately the fix won't...

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SharePoint calculated columns and variations?

I had a very spooky issue today that took me a good deal of time to resolve. On a list in an English variation I have a calculated column called CalculatedExpiry with a formula that looks like...

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Embed video in SharePoint 2010 blog posts - the easy way

Edit: Added some more explanation around the Content Editor and the script.Embedding videos to the Body of a blog post in SharePoint has always required some tricks and coding. If you Google the...

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Using gantt view with the SP Calendar

A frequent need is to have calendar with an easy overview of who is absent or working out of office. The built-in SP calendar can get you some of the way, but the information tends to be a little hard...

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Searchlike filtering of lists

Watch the screencast of this blog post When you have content in SharePoint lists or libraries you want to narrow down, you have two options: You can search and you can filter.Search gives you the...

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SharePoint survey and line spacing

If you have ever made a SharePoint survey with a Rating Scale you may have run into an issue where your questions so to speak 'flow together'. The reason is that SharePoint doesn't add any padding to...

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Who created this list or library?

How do you find out who created a particular list or library in SharePoint? It doesn’t say anywhere! Only option is to use PowerShell and that requires that you have access to the SharePoint server.So...

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SharePoint Organization Chart with Presence

Here's a little script that - depending on your setup - will enable you to get presence icons on your Org Chart looking like this:The Org Chart links to the users SharePoint profile page with a url...

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