Use a SQL data connection in InfoPath

If you want to receive data from a SQL table directly into a field in InfoPath then do the following. First, create a new library in your SharePoint site using the template ”Data connections library”: Name the library like “SQLConnections” or something. (Choose not to display it in your QuickLaunch if you want to hide …

Simple redirect script

If you want to redirect your users to another URL when they press the “Save” button inside a list form, then just add the following in the link to the form: /lists/yourlist/newform.aspx?Source=/thankyou.aspx I usually use relative url’s as in the example, but you may also write the whole URL of course… Great!

SP2 on its way….

Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th. Office Service Pack team announced Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 would be available on April 28th. It provides many fixes and performance improvements, as well as some …

Event 2436 returns no search results

All of a sudden the search stopped working on a MOSS 2007 server. Looked into Event Viewer and found the error message: Event Type: WarningEvent Source: Office Server SearchEvent Category: GathererEvent ID: 2436Date: 24-04-2009Time: 13:29:31User: N/AComputer: DKxxx001Description:The start address cannot be crawled.Context: Application ‘SharedServices1’, Catalog ‘Portal_Content’Details: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access …

SharePoint BestPractices

I visited the SharePoint Best Practices UK in London last week and it was a really great conference with lots of interesting seminars. It was hard to select which seminars to attend, I wanted to go to them all! But I decided to pick one from each track, there were IW, BA, Dev and IT-Pro …

SharePoint Online!

I got an account to SharePoint Online (with mr Z’s song ringing in my head)! And of course you want to change to a new master page to get rid of the ugly boring usual interface. Easy. Just open SD and enter the URL to the site. Change to your customized master page and you …