SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Four

In part three I said there was bit of functionality left to clear up. We have to run the process manually. We actually did a little bit of the ground work in part two. One of the pieces of code was the main function that brings all the bits and pieces together – it was

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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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Working with hidden content types and site columns in SharePoint v3

This isn’t new but I’m reproducing for my own benefit! I blogged ages ago about needing to get at the Event content type in SharePoint which by default is in the _Hidden category I normally get at the Event content type by creating a calendar, enabling content types and then following the links until I

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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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Useful Commands – CmdKey

A couple of weeks ago I saw a post on Mark Wilson’s blog talking about CMDKEY. At the time I thought “that’s one to remember” but wondered if I’d ever actually need it Turns out today I did! CmdKey is used for managing cached credentials Someone called today as they were working with the documents

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Creating a multi-column search form in SharePoint v3 with SharePoint Designer

This post isn’t anything ground breaking or new but I remember the first time I tried to do this! Also every time I do it I always forget something The requirement here is simple Create a form that allows the user to enter some search criteria and have it search across specific, multiple columns For

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