Create your own search control

I was looking for a way to get rid of the icon gosearch.gif in the Search Area in SharePoint: There is no way to replace the image with a css class, the only thing you can do is hide it with a new class that is called td.sbgo img and add the display:none to it. …

And now – a commercial break :)

My good friend Tobias Zimmergren has released his awesome Forum product for SharePoint.I hereby quote Tozit himself:“The TOZIT SharePoint Discussion Forum solution is a product, or set of products, that makes the discussions in SharePoint become very intuitive and user friendly. It also adds on a bunch of features that doesn’t normally exist in SharePoint’s …

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!

IE 8 and compatibility view

I installed Internet Explorer 8 yesterday – yeah a bit late, I know 🙂 Entered a customers site that I have built on MOSS and paniced a little when I found out that the drop down menus where… white!! No, not again. Not another strange issue with my customized drop down menu… the last time …

Edit the welcome-dropdown menu

If you want to remove the “MySettings” from the user dropdown menu (up in the right corner of a sharepoint page) so that it looks like this instead: Then go to folder:C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATECONTROLTEMPLATESMake a copy of welcome.ascx!Then open the file Welcome.ascx in NotepadAdd the following attribute to each element you wish …

Deep dive into InfoPath

I am on new and thrilling territories right now, not really sure what I am doing but it’s getting clearer and clearer… My mission is to place a button in an InfoPath form, with code behind that transforms the xml file into a PDF file and then inserts itself into a mail and of course …

CQWP that displays date

I got a request from a customer that wanted the Content Query Web Part to display Created (or Modified, whatevah) date along with the title. Why isn’t there a function for this already, and why why can’t you select any column you want to display in the web part? I’m not so impressed by this …

A new fresh attempt with the BDC

I have tried this before, but with no result, to actually get data from Dynamics NAV straight into Sharepoint using the BDC catalog. It seemed so easy, just create the ADF file and import it in Central Administration and youre ready to read from your business system. Not quite.. So today I did a new …