Mar22

Item Level Security in WSS Custom Lists

WSS v3 has very powerful item level security features that were completely non-existent in previous versions of SharePoint.  This wiki discusses how to take advantage of those features for custom lists.   There are several ways to implement ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-22-07 | 4 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar22

SharePoint Designer Workflow Limitations

SharePoint Designer workflows are have some great benefits: they are relatively easy to create, don't require any code, and can be created and maintained by power users, not just developers.  However, there are several limitations to SharePoint Desi ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-22-07 | 25 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar16

MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 Backup Script

Here is a VBScript I put together to make a full backup of a MOSS 2007 or WSS v3 Server.  The thing I like about this script is that it creates a rolling 7 day backup of your SharePoint Server.  The problem with the built in solution is that it just ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-16-07 | 78 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar15

SharePoint Designer Workflows - Logical Expressions

SharePoint Designer workflows allow several conditions to be specified for a set of actions.  Each condition results in a logical value (true/false) and can be ANDed or ORed with other logical conditions.   Here is an example set of 4 condit ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-15-07 | 5 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Mar13

Starting SharePoint Designer Workflows from SharePoint Events

This post describes how to start workflows from SharePoint events.  The details here are known to apply to SharePoint Designer workflows, but may also apply to Visual Studio 2005 workflows.   Purpose   Why would you want to do start a Shar ...[Read More]
Published: Mar-13-07 | 7 Comments | 0 Links to this post