Thursday, September 11, 2008

Viewing RSS feeds in Sharepoint RSS viewer Web Part

I have been asked about how to view RSS feeds in MOSS. Sharepoint has got a nice RSS webPart viewer which is quite simple to use.
1. Locate your RSS feed (e.g bbc)
2. Add the RSS viewer webpart to Sharepoint
3. Modify the web part properties to add the RSS feed

If you are behind a proxy , you will get a connection error. To resolve that:
Edit your web.config to add the following:

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Microsoft Express

Nice stuffs on this Site. I think MS is trying to give more starter packages like SQL Express and Visual Studion Express to enable small & medium development.
Good Initiative
http://www.microsoft.com/express

With some interresting plug-ins like PopFly where you can create mashups without writing a line of code. With the mashup creator you can combine different web sites.
http://www.popfly.com/

Facebook DEv KIT is also available
http://www.microsoft.com/express/samples/facebook/Default.aspx

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Workflow in Sharepoint Designer

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx

Showing a Calculated Column in Infopath 2007

Here is a small tip about how to display a Sharepoint Lists' calculated column in infopath 2007.1. Create your lists in Sharepoint with a calculated column (Field1&Field2)2. In Infopath 2007, create a data connection use XML file use the following (http://servername/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?cmd=Display&List={GUID of the Lists}&XMLDATA=TRUE3. Choose this data connection in your drop down lists, and choose your field.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

MOSS 2007 is a collaborative platform, that connect people, processes and information. As compared to Sharepoint 2003, which was an incomplete solution, i think MOSS 2007 has got almost every feature to become a reference in terms of ECM.Fror those who want to experience this product, microsoft offers a free trial of Sharepoint Standard and Sharepoint Enterprisehttp://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/trynow.mspx