Archive for February, 2005

Whilst customising our SPS installation various people were complaining of all the admin links down the left hand side.

So we thought about removing them, but how do you then edit.

I stumbled across configurator, really handy to see what can be done when customising area templates, and I remembered that this had removed all the admin links like change settings.

Well it hadnt removed them it just ensured that these links only appeared when in edit mode, a much better solution (why is this notthe default ?)

So the items for your <spswc:toolbar> that need hiding can have the value “EditOnly” instead of Both.  Don’t ask me what the other value is.

Thanks to Stuart Estell for assistance on this one.

I may be wrong but this, to me, looks like an SPS installation

http://www.greatwesthealthcare.com

I cant tell if its WSSor SPS, but I didnt think the licening model allowed for SPS installs on the internet.

But the larger question is, for the functions that this site offers, WHY ? Why use sharepoint at all, would not CMS be better ?

If anyone knows please enlighten me.

Its very pretty by the way and does show how you can change an area template.

There are quite a few blog entries out there about sharepoint and applications hosted on the same machine.

There is a KB article on it too http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823265. You modify the managed paths.

Well true this works and apps can run side by side, in fact you can run applications inside sharepoint with the managed paths option. We did hit some problems in doing this.

1. All of a sudden Session stopped working, it told us hey turn it on. Well I can tell you it was turned on. Nevr got round to fixing this, if someone knows of the problem and of a fix post a comment.
2. Visual Studio became a bloody nightmare. Whilst it could create new apps apps opened from Sourcesafe had a blue fit.

So we tried to install Sharepoint and Apps on two seperate webs. We also utilised host-headers so both webs could use port 80. This does require the developers box to be Server 2003. If you have one monitor, then dont do it virutalise it and have seperate boxes. If you have two monitors you will lose productivity by not doing it, but be prepared to re-install sharepoint, beter still make a copy of everything to copy over More >

See.

http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2005/02/24/379498.aspWhich references  http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Hardly new

I have been creating AJAX apps since IE4 with RDS and offscreen IFRAMES then with XMLHTTP.  My problem back in the day was cross-browser compatibilty, I didnt even consider doing it back then most of the AJAX things I did were extranet or intranet.

It bugs me that someone who recently started investigating this gives a bunch of credit to google for this technique, true well done for pushing it beyond what us early pioneers did but your still standing on others shoulders.

So I’d like to send my thanks to the person who inspired me to pioneer this technique all those years ago in my own applications. (And for those who have worked with me you never thought you’d hear this).

Thanks to Dino Espisito, author of probably the only book released at the time with mention to RDS which enabled me to exploit this now redundant technology to do AJAX.  Instant Scriptlets was a much overlooked book, that gave me insight in to all the nasty things I could do with RDS (and the piss-poor implemented “scriptlets”).

Thanks again Dino.

PS Thanks to MS for IE4 and the IE4SDK, what got me interested in Web in the firstplace More >

Love the name for the problem they describe here, we all suffer the woe now and again

http://spaces.msn.com/members/mwadams/Blog/cns!1pAMOzaH98ZfHK1uhQS5Bd5g!111.entry