Logging into Sharepoint Designer

This may be obvious to others, but I was having some problems with not being able to control how I logged into SharePoint Designer. I have a couple of accounts – one for normal work, and one with admin privileges. What I found was that SharePoint designer would log in variously with one or the…

Preselect a tab in the 'New SharePoint Site' page

I tried to find the answer to this one for too long. It may be obvious to most intelligent people but this one’s for the rest of us. In our SharePoint site we make an individual site for each project and these are all kept under one Project Management uber-site. This means that we’re often…

SharePoint vs File Server

OK – so it can’t directly replace a file server. Probably obvious, but this post neatly describes why. I’d summarise – if: it’s not big it’s not clever, and it’s not a movie then it’s probably Ok.

Show all subsites in a webpart

I’ve been looking for a while to find a webpart that would show all the subsites of a particular sharepoint site. If you google this, there appear to be lots of people looking for the same thing. Well, I’ve just found an old reference which, a slight update for MOSS 2007 seems to work at…

My Sharepoint site templates are missing content in the wiki

(About time I started this again… beware though, you may notice a sharepoint theme developing.) SharePoint allows you to create a site template by simply saving a site as a template. This is fine, but buggy and I’ve come across some holes recently. The latest problem for me is that the site template I’m trying…