This is still in progress, but my blog is / will be moving to a new location. Since I work at SharePoint911 now, it only makes sense to put my blog over there with the others. So, here’s the new location: http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura Oh, and…

This is continued from Part 1. One of my cohorts at the End User SharePoint media booth at the Best Practices Conference was John Anderson, of Bamboo Nation.  He wrote a series of blog posts during the conference.  Here’s the whole list of them.  Great writing, John! Altogether, a good time was had by all at the…

Last week was the Best Practices Conference in Washington, DC.  This conference used to be called “SharePoint Best Practices”, but this time they added in a SQL track, so it’s just “Best Practices” now.  The concept behind this one is that you’ll learn why to do certain best practices, as opposed to the how. The week…

This is another post of a solution related to Microsoft’s SharePoint Employee Training template, but this solution can be used on any list on your site.  Here’s the story… We use this employee training template to set up various training series at work.  For example, if there’s some diversity training coming up, there…

Last week on Stump the Panel, I put up a solution to the following question: How to update a user’s calendar in Outlook using workflow Since this seemed to be a popular post, I thought I’d show it to you, and also expound upon it, to show the nitty gritty of how it’s done. Here’s how I got to the business solution…

Dear Diary… No, seriously.  This post is just a recap of what’s going on lately with me and the SharePoint community. Last weekend, Lori Gowin, Cathy Dew and I took a 9 hour road trip from Birmingham, Alabama to Harrison, Arkansas, for SharePoint Saturday - Ozarks.  We recorded a set of “on the go” videos, again, as an…

Cool stuff… data view web parts again!  So, here’s an idea for a main page for a SharePoint intranet.  This is using the data view web part (in Sharepoint Designer) and a web service. First of all, for beginners, here’s my Data View Web Part, The Basics - Insert a DVWP on Your Page and there’s an associated screencast…

Wow, tomorrow is SharePoint Saturday in the Ozarks (Harrison, Arkansas), and we’re ready! Cathy Dew, Lori Gowin and are are all going to be speakers, and drove together from Birmingham.  Check out my Webcasts page to see the videos that we recorded on the 9 hour road trip yesterday.  It’s 50 minutes, split into five…

Finally writing my recap of all the fun last week.  What a trip. Uh, oh, I mean… “Wow, I learned a lot!“. The adventure started out on June 19th, when I flew to Charlotte, NC, from my home in  Birmingham, AL.  Since the speaker party wasn’t set to start until 8PM, I had to have dinner beforehand.  I hooked up with…

This was an article that I wrote on endusersharepoint.com Data View Web Part, The Basics - Keep it Clean Original Publication Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 SharePoint User Level: Power User This is pretty easy, and is applicable in most scenarios when using the data view web part. Basically, you create a blank web part…

When I was putting together the presentation that I do, called “Making the most of the out-of-box Web Parts”, I created a comprehensive list of all web parts.  I wrote the chapter about web parts in Bill English’s MOSS Administrator’s Companion, so I already had the list, but I went through it again and added…

I wrote an article, and did a screencast on Endusersharepoint.com Data View Web Part, The Basics - Folders (Article) Original Publication Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 SharePoint User Level: Power User When creating data view web parts in SharePoint Designer, and dealing with libraries or lists that contain folders…

When creating a new view on a SharePoint list or library, there’s this little section towards the bottom of the view settings, called Style, that looks like this: To see what each style looks like, you could easily modify your view, changing it to each style, one at a time.  I’ve discovered something in SharePoint…

Good afternoon! There is a new series of articles that I started writing, regarding the data view web part in SharePoint Designer.  These articles have been published on the endusersharepoint.com site, so I’ll just link to them from here. New Article Series: Laura Rogers on Data View Web Part Basics - This article is…

Lori Gowin and I drove to Atlanta for SharePoint Saturday on April 18th.  We simply turned the camera on, and started talking.  For the past few weeks, I’ve been uploading one new file each night.  Now, the whole series has been uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Click here to see the list of all ELEVEN webcasts.  It…

When you register for the SharePoint Technical Conference (SPtechcon) in Boston, get $100 off because you know me. Use the promotional code: WONDERLAURA

Do you want logged in users to see a RSS feed of their own weather?  If you have MOSS Enterprise, this can be done using the Current User Filter web part and the RSS Viewer web part!  One thing that needs to be done ahead of time: Your zip code field needs to be set in the SSP as visible by everyone and replicable.  (I…

Twitter users, you can Re-Tweet This Post. There are a whole slew of SharePoint web services, but today I decided to try out the SiteData.asmx one, in a data view web part (the GetListCollection operation in particular).  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a developer, so in a lot of cases, the data view web part (DVWP…

Mark Miller of http://www.endusersharepoint.com and I did an Excel/SharePoint online webcast, and one of the things that we covered was how to set up a data connection library for people who only have WSS, and don’t have MOSS or Excel Services.  Here’s a link to a quick recap that Mark did, after our session: http…

Twitter users, you can Re-Tweet This Post. SP Tech Con (www.sptechcon.com) is coming up! Looking forward to seeing you all at this conference!  Presentations that I’ll be doing:  Making the Most Of Out-of-the-Box Web Parts Out-of-the-Box Web parts are extremely flexible. This session will provide business users and…

In this article, I’ll describe how to use the out-of-box “I Need To…” web part to display a dynamic list of documents in a document library. About the “I Need To…” web part This web part displays items in a list on the sharepoint site.  The Title field is the field that will be displayed.  The list also must have a…

And here is the last of my four part series on “Fun with Announcements” Create a “More” link to view the details of each announcement http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1405

Here is today’s article of mine, as part of my “Fun with announcements” series.  Todays is called “Modify the default ‘Current View’ of the announcements Web Parts” http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1403

Today’s article that I wrote for the End User SharePoint site is called: Create Alerts Based On Announcement Categories Here is the link to it: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1402

There is a new series that I’ve written, about fun things that you can do with an announcements list in SharePoint. This is part one, and has been posted on the endusersharepoint site: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1399 Enjoy, and happy sharepointing!

In my first blog post called Displaying SharePoint Fields by Permission level, I made a side note that said Also, I’d like to note that when using custom forms like this, the Attachment button doesn’t work anymore.  I think there are blogs somewhere about this bug, but I’ve never tried fixing it. Well, Microsoft…

For my neighbors in Alabama, here’s some information about SharePoint stuff going on in our neck of the woods: Birmingham SharePoint User Group Meetings are the second Tuesday of every month, at the CTS office in Hoover.  On the website, you can “Join the Group”, so that you’ll receive email invites for each meeting…

This is a “SharePoint Tip of the week” email that I sent out to our site administrators in November of 2007.  Thought I’d share it… In SharePoint 2007, alerts can be set up based on filtered (specific) data, using views! This applies to any SharePoint document library or list (contacts, calendars, tasks, etc.).  The…

Just thought I’d let everyone know where I learned everything I know about workflows.  This site is friggin awesome, and the tutorials are very detailed.  You can tell that this guy, Stephen, put a lot of work into this. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564171033.aspx Then, just recently, by…

In this blog post, I’ll not only go over how to fix the category.aspx page when it breaks, but how to associate an image with each blog category, and have that image displayed each time you view that category’s page. On each site created using the Blog Site template in SharePoint, there is list for blog categories. On…

Looking forward to speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference this week in San Diego! Brett Lonsdale (Lightning Tools) and I will be doing a presentation called Making the Most of the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts.  In this presentation, we will go over all of the web parts that come with MOSS.  Brett is the BDC…

It seems that one of the most commonly asked questions on discussion boards and forums is “How can I display documents from multiple document libraries all in one list?”  So, I decided to enumerate some of the available options to achieve this goal.  They each have their pluses and drawbacks. Relevant Documents Web…

There are situations where certain fields in lists or libraries need to be hidden or displayed according to the permission level of the logged in user.  Since there is really no out-of-box way to assign permissions to fields, here’s a way to do it using conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer.  This is my…

This is my first blog post, ever.  So, I’ll start with something simple.  Well, it starts off simple, but the end leaves a little to be desired.  Here goes… Outlook Web Access web parts are meant for use on SharePoint My Sites. Each Outlook Web Access web part has the following required fields: Mail server address…