SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Three

Following on from part two I commented that there were a couple of issues outstanding, It doesn’t automatically update the SharePoint list. We have to repeat the list creation process every time. We have to run the process manually.    This post will cover the first item on the list and is really straight forward.

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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Two

I intended to follow on from part one a bit sooner but it’s been really busy at the office! In part one I gave a brief overview of what I was trying to accomplish and how to get a rough prototype working. While it did the job I highlighted the following limitations. It only fetches

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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part One

This is going to be quite lengthy so I’ll split into a couple of posts. Back in March, Mark Wilson of MarkWilson.co.uk (if you’re not reading his blog….go check it out now!) asked the following on Twitter. Does anyone know how to read XML (i.e. Twitter updates) into a SharePoint List (not the XML webpart

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InfoPath – Errr! What?

I got an email earlier this week from Richard Tubb asking a couple of questions about InfoPath. This is also the same Mr Tubb who has been “nagging” me to post more about InfoPath and SharePoint. I do take his point as I’ve posted very little on the topic since I spoke about it at

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Office 2010 Versions

With everything that’s been going on personally and professionally the last few months the newest version of Office sort of skipped by me Sure I installed the “alpha” when it was released on one of my machines but I wasn’t using it full time Yesterday I had to do a rebuild of my main office

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The Case of the Vanishing E-mails

I just wanted to relay a support call I’ve just dealt with as it really had me stumped. For a while I was concerned there was something really bad happening but now that I’ve gotten to the bottom of it I can breathe easy as it wasn’t actually all that serious Our client called to

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SharePoint Designer – Free?

There has been a rumour kicking around the last few weeks that Microsoft are to make SharePoint designer available for free (Posts from various SharePoint based blogs here, here and here) Any software announcement scheduled for April 1st always makes me suspicious (a couple of the blog posts I’ve mentioned have updated to say it’ll

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Changing Symbols in Word 2007

Just learnt something new! I’d inserted the following symbol into various parts of my document   I wanted to change one of them and for some reason I double clicked it which displayed the symbols dialog This is much easier than having to delete it and insert a brand new one again I’m not sure

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Office 2007 – Prompt for Document Information

I got asked this today so it’s here in case I need it again! In Office 2003 (Word/Excel/etc) there is an option to be prompted to enter document information (subject, title, category, etc) when you save a new file In office 2003 it’s on the SAVE tab in the OPTIONS dialog which is very easy

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