tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74307628642298351712011-11-27T16:22:49.812-08:00Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-85081126099175809682010-07-05T13:14:00.001-07:002010-07-05T13:14:49.887-07:00

I hope you enjoyed Parts 1 and 2 of this series, or saw my talk at SharePoint Saturday DC recently.  If not, please go back and read Part 1 and Part 2 at the links below. This 7-part series consists of the following: Part 1 – Should we host on-premises or with a provider? (Can we do both?) Part 2 - Do we need a dedicated solution, or is multi-tenant going to work for our needs? Part 3 - If

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-53204203866249785442010-05-31T21:46:00.001-07:002010-05-31T21:46:43.959-07:00

I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of this series, or saw my talk at SharePoint Saturday DC recently.  If not, please go back and read Part 1 at the link below. This 7-part series consists of the following: Part 1 – Should we host on-premises or with a provider? (Can we do both?) Part 2 - Do we need a dedicated solution, or is multi-tenant going to work for our needs? Part 3 - If we make the leap,

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-21415891147948731582010-05-23T06:14:00.001-07:002010-05-31T21:56:39.590-07:00

SharePoint Saturday DC on May 15, 2010, was an amazing FREE event thanks to the efforts of everyone involved, especially Dux, Dan, Jenn and Gino, and next year’s event (Two days of SharePoint “Saturday” -- Friday is the new Saturday!–- May 20-21, 2011) already has all the signs of being something spectacular as well. Check out video of Dux and Marcy Kellar performing “Empire State of SharePoint

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-64767506799798618402010-05-07T23:24:00.001-07:002010-05-07T23:24:32.291-07:00

Over the past several years, I’ve seen a number of companies of all sizes and shapes look at their options for managing SharePoint.  The recent release of SharePoint 2010 means a lot of organizations are at a crossroads.  They need to decide if they are going to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of the technology, of course, but they also need to decide if the way they’ve managed

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-66032262340496440642009-12-29T20:32:00.001-08:002009-12-29T20:32:00.165-08:00

I mean, sure, you were there for the Big Event, but you were certainly not getting the full experience. Avatar, the latest movie (in fact, the first in 12 years?!) from James Cameron  , the Director of the movie that for, I suspect, only a short time longer, holds the world record for highest box office gross in its initial run, Titanic, as well as big money makers like Terminator 2 and Aliens,

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-81506372291139825302009-12-07T14:36:00.001-08:002009-12-07T19:55:04.248-08:00

Why, Why, Why is this scenario so confusing to so many?  Oh, I know.  It’s because the documentation surrounding this issue is neither abundant nor clear. What follows is one simple scenario for managing authentication of Content Authors for your MOSS for Internet Site, both from an architecture and a MOSS licensing perspective. Assumptions: 1) Your MOSS for Internet Sites (MOSS

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-85838031736702360632009-11-23T19:49:00.001-08:002009-11-23T19:49:32.769-08:00

Have you ever heard the old joke about the guy who was such a bad dancer that they asked him to stop because he kept throwing off the music?  (If you know who told that joke originally, please let me know). My wife had an interesting experience today in much the same vein. Our children’s school system uses a web-based software system to schedule quarterly parent/teacher conferences. For the

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-84519296810594794182009-11-20T11:59:00.001-08:002009-11-20T11:59:29.791-08:00

I want to thank Kirk Evans, Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, who recently interviewed me about AT&T’s managed SharePoint hosting services. Kirk is a very knowledgeable guy with great connections to people doing fascinating things with the technology, so if you’re working in the Microsoft space, you should definitely follow him on Twitter @kaevans, and watch for more of his “Water Cooler”

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-60911021511208701542009-11-10T14:18:00.001-08:002009-11-10T14:27:52.827-08:00

I’ve recently been reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and have been marveling at the timelessness and broad applicability of many of Mr. Franklin’s nuggets of wisdom. A surprising number of them I find quite applicable to Cloud computing, the application service provider model, Software as a Service, or whatever you wish to call your particular flavor and brand of server

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-91511632272965716382009-11-04T10:20:00.001-08:002009-11-04T10:20:20.418-08:00

Quick tip to SharePoint customers and end users who are working with a web part page that is bombing out before they can do anything to it. ?Contents=1 Append the above to the end of the URL of the web part page (you can use the right click on the hyperlink, Copy Shortcut method to get the URL into your clipboard without going to the page and repeating the bomb out), and load the page again.

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-112875490919358402009-10-29T13:20:00.001-07:002009-10-29T13:23:03.744-07:00

If you have created a Content Type in your Site Content Type Gallery and now you want to Delete it, but SharePoint is not presenting you with the Delete option when you click on the Content Type’s name in your Site Content Type Gallery, don’t worry.  You probably just set your Content Type to be “read only.”  If so, trust me, this is not a tough spot to get out of. Once you change that

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-53500850144436790082009-10-25T23:50:00.001-07:002009-10-25T23:52:36.555-07:00

“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.'” - Anonymous Day 4 was October 22, the last day of the conference for most people, me included, and, by no mere coincidence I’m sure, the launch date for Windows 7, the newest version of the desktop operating system. Clued in by a tweet, I flipped on the

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-51887908660651785172009-10-23T22:19:00.001-07:002009-10-23T22:34:35.191-07:00

My first session on Day 3 was the most mind-blowing one yet, I think. The Speaker was Doron Bar-Caspi, a Sr. Program Manager with the SharePoint Customer Advisory Team (CAT).  The topic was best practices for geographically distributed SharePoint 2010 solutions, something that, working for a provider of hosted SharePoint, I find a very relevant topic, and one that was very challenging to

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-19663302261295356602009-10-21T07:44:00.001-07:002009-10-23T18:09:05.930-07:00

I stayed up pretty late to get my previous blog post in while all the info was still fresh in my mind (okay, you got me… before it scrolled off of Twitter), so I purposely slept in a little late. I also had to clear up some stuff with some colleagues back home, so I hung out in the room a little long, and missed the free breakfast and first session. Coincidentally, @sharepointkevin also got a

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-66724845990421017892009-10-20T01:58:00.001-07:002009-10-21T02:04:04.247-07:00

The morning got off to a leisurely start. #SPRunners were out early (and they recruited a new member! Not me - Steve Ballmer). Most everyone else seemed to catch enough rest to make it through a day of what ran the risk of being death by a thousand PowerPoints. By 7:45, however, a large crowd had made the pilgrimage to the Shoreline A room at Mandalay Bay Convention Center, where breakfast was

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-80311977426702513512009-06-04T04:30:00.000-07:002009-06-04T04:30:03.035-07:00

Late night network TV has been a fairly stable, predictable day part for the major networks since roughly 12-15 years ago when all of the big fanfare with which Letterman ditched the two-faced NBC (who upon Johnny Carson’s retirement, snatched away from Dave the long-promised 11:30 slot and gave it to Jay Leno instead) in favor of CBS (thereby sounding the death knell for the once-popular

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-29120709917848133852009-05-13T17:22:00.001-07:002009-05-13T17:22:52.158-07:00

Mary Flaherty at The Rainmaker Report/RainToday.com recently interviewed me about my experience using social networking sites for business purposes. What’s really organic and interesting about this is that what brought me to Mary’s attention were some answers I had provided to other people’s questions on LinkedIn’s Q&A.  Mary asked if she could quote one of my LinkedIn answers in an earlier

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-48816002987645046202009-05-03T20:03:00.001-07:002009-05-13T08:52:44.345-07:00

Update: Turns out I took the long way to get this working... You can achieve this much more simply by merely using the "Capture ISO" option under CD in Virtual PC's menu. I had misinterpreted "Capture ISO" to mean create an ISO of the virtual drive you were leveraging. It turns out it means to treat a pre-existing ISO as a CD in the drive of your guest vpc.If you just like reading second-best

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-40257452230841029702009-05-03T09:14:00.001-07:002009-05-03T09:14:43.028-07:00

Like many of you, I imagine, I resisted signing on to Twitter for a long time, despite good experiences with a number of Social Media like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Blogger. Why the hesitation?  Well, I was already updating my Facebook status regularly, to joke with my friends and coordinate reunions with old classmates, update the grandparents on my son’s Little League games, etc., and my

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-89050711371156539062009-04-23T10:18:00.001-07:002009-05-04T18:45:27.913-07:00

I recently celebrated my 9 year anniversary with my company, which was called USinternetworking, Inc. at the time I signed on.  Then as now the company was the leading application service provider for the Enterprise. The acquisition of USi in 2006 by AT&T was a major milestone in the growth of the company and its market niche, and the change has fueled significant growth that continues even in

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-53378840328700550392009-04-20T08:00:00.001-07:002009-04-20T08:02:19.718-07:00

Microsoft has announced that the next version of the SharePoint server product will be called Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, dropping the word “Office” altogether from the name, and screwing up one of the few widely successful four-letter (as opposed to three-letter) acronyms in recent computing history. The idea, it seems, is for everyone to just call SharePoint “SharePoint” and just use the

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-73219910229382711622009-04-13T11:21:00.001-07:002009-04-13T11:24:01.456-07:00

Gabor Fari has assembled a very nice list of useful links to SharePoint materials freely available on the web. Topics include: Training and Adoption Compliance, Governance and Administration Utilities and Add-ons Legacy Migration and Integration Technical White papers Books Check it out!

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-876334773218197602009-04-09T12:35:00.001-07:002009-04-09T12:35:34.033-07:00

If you have a Customer looking to migrate their Notes content to SharePoint, Quest is offering their Notes Migrator tools in a limited functionality Discovery Edition that gives you the pre-migration analysis that you need in order to effectively scope and estimate your project. Check it out at Quest.com

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-36380848770422153242009-04-07T13:14:00.001-07:002009-04-07T13:14:02.442-07:00

Thanks to the evil genius Bryan Napier for turning me on to Windows Live Writer as a betta edita for my blog.  I will be checking it out over the next few posts, to take it for a good spin. Got Windows Live Writer tips to share?  Please do! Technorati Tags: Windows Live Writer,blog editing software,enhanced blogging,Bryan Napier

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-82055454186176447912009-04-07T09:54:00.001-07:002009-04-07T13:23:22.283-07:00

Gartner recently published a very nice case study on Pfizer that highlights some great governance techniques and lessons learned on their way to a 41,000 user Enterprise SharePoint deployment.Good stuff for people involved in Strategic Planning for SharePoint.

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-25194097628328183202009-04-06T12:54:00.001-07:002009-04-06T13:05:49.832-07:00

Microsoft has not only promised to incorporate what was formerly a standalone BI product, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2010 (?) Enterprise Edition, but they have actually updated the licensing of MOSS 2007 Enteprise, so you can start taking advantage of PerformancePoint Services RIGHT AWAY at no additional licensing cost! ("

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-13639655078688270262009-04-02T08:31:00.001-07:002009-04-02T08:35:39.193-07:00

In what is sure to spur a wave of nifty innovations to corporate SharePoint sites, Microsoft has dropped licensing cost from SharePoint Designer, making the tool a free download.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42A word of caution. Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it. SharePoint Designer is a

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-6492085518509517902009-03-11T12:42:00.001-07:002009-03-11T13:22:16.555-07:00

Once again, today, I found myself beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why my InfoPath 2007 form, which worked perfectly in Forms Services just yesterday is suddenly blowing up and leaving little intelligible information in the SharePoint logs to hint at the nature of the problem.When I try to edit my form, I get the delightfully informative message, "The form has been closed."

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-73315782318079795082009-03-11T08:40:00.001-07:002009-03-18T06:00:41.711-07:00

More exciting news from the AT&T- News Room...The company has announced a huge investment in fleet vehicles running on alternative fuel. In fact, the largest investment in CNG vehicles of ANY U.S. corporation.Posted using ShareThisDisclosure: I am an employee of AT&T

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-45613466695589148062009-03-11T08:30:00.001-07:002009-03-18T06:00:57.881-07:00

I am pleased to note that in this release from the AT&T- News Room, the company will be adding some 3,000 jobs over the course of 2009, and will be investing heavily in the U.S. economy to make major wireless and wired broadband infrastructure improvements.It will be great to see other big players making similar investments to spur the economy along!Posted using ShareThisDisclosure: I am an

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-38607033958059373832009-03-10T10:56:00.001-07:002009-03-10T10:59:58.488-07:00

If you are using MOSS 2007 and InfoPath 2007 and you are using the Central Admin Manage Form Template page to upload a new version of a form, and your form template never finishes uploading, the spadmin or sptimer job is probably stopped.Go to the command line on your server and fire the following commands. net start spadmin net start sptimerv3 stsadm -o execadmsvcjobsThis should execute the

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-20610503849315748052009-03-10T05:47:00.000-07:002009-03-10T05:54:06.545-07:00

I am planning to attend the next SharePoint Saturday in Washington, D.C. on May 2, and I hope to see you there.For more info: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/default.aspx

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-27408028823667344722009-03-04T08:54:00.000-08:002009-03-04T10:01:47.255-08:00

Mary Flaherty quoted me in her article, "Getting Business Value from the New Worlds of Social Networking: First-Hand Tales of Entering the Twittersphere, Blogosphere & More" today in The Rainmaker Report, The Premier Site for Marketing & Sales for Professional Services.The article focuses on how to generate real business value out of the leading social networking sites such as LinkedIn and

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-50958676576178153742009-03-03T12:05:00.000-08:002009-03-18T06:02:09.340-07:00

In discussing the shortage of tools and guidance on SharePoint development, a situation that remains a challenge for developers looking to develop custom applications for Microsoft's increasingly popular collaboration and portal software, the recent article in Visual Studio magazine makes a compelling case for developing a strategic plan for rolling out your SharePoint solution whether this is

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-72552834614950130002009-03-03T10:06:00.000-08:002009-03-03T10:35:40.843-08:00

The 12th studio album and first in half a decade from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers U2 blasts off quickly with Larry Mullen’s drums crackling under a sonic landscape that is quintessentially both U2 and Eno/Lanois, the album’s by now legendary producing team. Indeed, Eno and Lanois are actually credited along with the band with the music on more than half of the new disc’s tracks. Longtime

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-37346953464816818422009-03-03T09:00:00.000-08:002009-03-03T13:09:13.906-08:00

As you’ve seen for yourself if you’ve been reading some of the links I’ve posted recently, Washington Technology has been doing a great job of covering the stimulus package and the corresponding rise in State and Local spending patterns for IT. Today, they published two articles, one, a Who’s Who in the State and Local Market, and the other, a color commentary companion piece by William

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-46828617861323339842009-02-28T20:46:00.000-08:002009-02-28T21:05:58.328-08:00

Mel Kleiman, CSP asked an interesting question on LinkedIn that I responded to this evening. Mel's question was "If there was one piece of advice you would give someone who was new to LinkedIn or had not really been effective at using it. What would you tell them or show them?"Here is how I responded:The "one" piece of advice I would offer is to use it fully, which has many subtasks, some of

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-69534929023061109732009-02-23T11:00:00.000-08:002009-02-23T11:07:15.864-08:00

This morning, I read this terrific article by Jon Birger in the current Fortune magazine. By taking the subject out of the context of the technology and hard business world, I think it shines a light on some fundamental principles of outstanding customer service, and hints at ways you should rethink what you and your business are doing during these tough economic times to make sure you keep your

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-31891302068268540602009-02-19T18:30:00.000-08:002009-02-19T18:34:56.584-08:00

This article in the Salt Lake Tribune cites White House sources saying that the top 10 districts in terms of job retention/creation will be in Nevada, Utah, Washington, D.C., and others.http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11734647This post originally appeared at http://becraftsblog.blogspot.com. Your feedback is welcome!

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-77881361271300990892009-02-18T11:10:00.000-08:002009-02-19T14:21:49.145-08:00

Washington Technology offers this summary of spending provisions in the Stimulus package as they pertain to the IT services spectrum.http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/02/04/it-stimulus.aspx

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-65908627039988359622009-02-18T10:58:00.000-08:002009-02-19T14:22:15.814-08:00

Washington Technology is reporting that the stimulus package highlights a strong preference for fixed price contracts against RFP'd opportunities.http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/02/17/stimulus-bill-requires-fixed-price-contracts.aspx?s=wtdaily_180209The unfortunate downside of this is that the government will likely end up paying for projected risk up front, whereas with T&M there

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-6133949684609246052009-02-17T18:39:00.001-08:002009-02-17T18:59:30.622-08:00

A couple weeks ago, I posted about PerformancePoint being folded into the SharePoint juggernaut in the next release. In this Information Week article by J. Nicholas Hooverhttp://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213402535, Hoover discusses another new feature being rolled into the next SharePoint release (part of Microsoft Office 14, apparently planned for

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-72994343322524619832009-02-17T07:20:00.000-08:002009-02-17T07:31:24.123-08:00

This article from InfoWorld touches on a number of key areas where technology people should be focusing for long-term job security and growth.In particular, what sticks out strongly for me, a Senior Business Analyst in the Hosting & Application Services division of one of the largest and best-known telecommunications corporations in the world, "business skills... are increasingly important. Many

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-41927575985693357072009-02-17T06:43:00.001-08:002009-02-17T06:53:26.664-08:00

This article in Washington Technology http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/02/13/stimulus-to-generate-new-state-and-local-tech-spending.aspx?s=wtdaily_170209 provides analysis by Input Inc., indicating that up to $4.5 billion in new state and local tech spending is on the way due to the Stimulus package that President Obama is signing into law today.Given the tough economic times across

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-3508104589017545342009-02-04T06:41:00.000-08:002009-02-04T06:55:24.747-08:00

In this Washington Technology article,Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, makes a very good point regarding the effect of the economic downturn and the need for labor reductions as it pertains to the H-1B Visa program and especially Microsoft, as well as other high tech companies.Quoting the article, “'It is imperative that in implementing its layoff plan, Microsoft ensures that

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-59849462304480898572009-01-27T14:43:00.000-08:002009-01-27T14:48:35.208-08:00

Visual Studio Magazine reports that Microsoft is dropping PerformancePoint Server as a solo product, and blending it into the Enterprise Edition of the next version of MOSS. This is great news for MOSS Enterprise users looking for sophisticated BI tools that surpass the entry-level BI features of the MOSS 2007 Enterprise product:http://visualstudiomagazine.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-64131671249195415702008-11-17T07:45:00.000-08:002008-11-17T07:49:08.074-08:00

Thanks to Srinivas Varukala for this helpful post regarding this challenging and not widely documented problem that you may run into while publishing InfoPath Forms to SharePoint through the Central Administration interface as opposed to straightforward publishing.http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/p/8034/29193.aspx#29193

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-18495850497667746682008-11-12T11:31:00.000-08:002008-11-17T19:58:33.289-08:00

Clay Fox (Infopath MVP) answered one of my recent posts on the InfoPath newsgroup in a way that led me to the realization that the encapsulation I had been missing while using the same conditions repeatedly throughout my large InfoPath form is actually available in a sort of poor-man's encapsulation way.Say you want to disable or hide a lot of your form controls if the form has already been

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-32459039801170397492008-11-12T08:18:00.000-08:002008-11-12T08:20:54.574-08:00

If this is your problem, Jussi Palo has the solution (thankfully, it's an EASY one):http://howtocode.blogspot.com/2008/02/forms-server-invalid-canary-for-view.html

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-88662288144884094912008-11-07T10:18:00.001-08:002008-11-08T19:16:44.497-08:00

I was very disappointed to discover that the InfoPath GUI limits my Conditional Formatting rules to a maximum of five condition clauses per rule.I have a viable requirement that requires me to consider the values of six (that's right, 6) different fields before hiding a control, and this means I can't make it work through the UI tools.What to do, what to do?!It turns out you may be able to

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-70947392306982839762008-11-06T07:23:00.000-08:002008-11-06T07:40:32.675-08:00

Any serious InfoPath form is all about the Rules, but since the Rules you create are well-hidden in the UI, even in design view, it is very tough to keep track of where you left off between form design sessions, and to see all of the rules that might be affecting a particular control on your form.Someone at Microsoft was looking out for you and me, though, because there is an extremely handy

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-56236495126519475572008-11-03T17:37:00.000-08:002008-11-06T07:43:28.663-08:00

If you get the following error message while attempting to publish a browser-enabled InfoPath Form to your Forms Services-enabled SharePoint site: "The following web server does not appear to be running Windows Sharepoint Services:http://sharepointserverurl/"Then check out this blog post for a solution:http://sheetal-d.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!237C3DEA7120098B!644.entry

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-14631813046145821482008-10-21T19:49:00.001-07:002008-10-27T19:58:39.222-07:00

The other day I posted some guidance on how you can effectively fake a multi-select list in browser-enabled InfoPath forms, and even showed how to show or hide another control based upon a selection in that fake multi-select list.The next level of problem is a tricky one... Let's say you have several options in a drop-down list box that you've embedded into a repeating table, just like I

Jeff Becraftnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430762864229835171.post-65636753297362390142008-10-20T09:31:00.000-07:002008-10-20T09:40:26.379-07:00

Okay, that title is a mouthful, I know, but to me the way you do this kind of thing in InfoPath is not intuitive, and therefore worthy of a blog post. It’s actually quite easy to do once you’re informed, so I’ll skip the small talk and get to it.First of all, the scenario. I was trying to give my users a multi-select list control even though I’m working in Forms Services within SharePoint, and

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