WSU-OAI Tech Topics

"A little playing and guessing and the issue turned out to be permissions. For some reason WSS_Admin_WPG and WSS_WPG did not have the any rights to c:\windows\temp on the central admin server."

before CSS skills can be expanded to an advanced level, the basics must become instinct to any CSS coder. Develop these habits and you lay a solid foundation to apply advanced CSS techniques.

"XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page."

You cannot edit list or document library items on existing SharePoint sites

I felt a great desire to post this solution for all of you just in-case you run into this problem as I did, I have spent three weeks off and on researching, testing, and so fourth to find the core problem and a solution to it. Core Problem Definition: SharePoint gives access denied when trying to Edit Item in List and/or Document Library even if user is granted full control permissions or is part of the Site Collection Administrators Group

"ULSViewer allows users to open a ULS log file and display its contents in a user friendly format. Users can then perform advanced functions such as filtering, sorting, highlighting, loading logs, appending logs, etc in order to single out the data that is important to the user. This information can be used to diagnose problems with machines running ULS services, or to monitor machines and the events they create in realtime. "

code fix for permmask problem for doclibs (and lists) and templates

"This is to explain what the ULS logs are, why they exist, and how to read and write 'em. In a nutshell, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) writes WSS 3.0 and MOSS events to SharePoint's Trace Logs, and these are stored in the file system in ...\12\LOGS. Collectively this location and its files are commonly referred to as the "ULS Logs" though MSDN calls them the Trace Logs. "

"SharePoint ClientSide Extensions makes it easy to develop JavaScript within the confines of SharePoint. A simple feature allows site admins to add JQuery, JQuery UI, Prototype, Scriptaculous and Ext JS to their site. "

Mircosoft SQL Server online docs home page, for current version (2008 R2) as well as our 2005 version. Links to "Books Online", "Compact Edition", and White Papers in three editions.

See the "Taming the Elusive Calculated Column" series

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