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Sharepointology is the study and handling of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available!

Posted 09Feb10 by Erwin in Development having no comments »

The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are available for  MSDN subscribers, you can download them immediately from this location.  The Release Candidate will be made available to the public on 10 February 2010.

This release includes a “go-live” license for users who want to use VS in a production environment.

Remark: Before installing the Release Candidate you will have to uninstall any previously installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 versions.

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SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam Videos

Posted 08Feb10 by Erwin in Development, End User, Setup having 1 comment »

You can find most of the videos from the SharePoint Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam by searching for the “SPC10” tag on Channel9.

Metadata not saving when Office Document is password protected

Posted 04Feb10 by Erwin in End User having 2 comments »
This is a known issue.  The metadata is actually stored within the document and gets read into SharePoint when being saved.  Unfortunately, since the document is password protected, SharePoint cannot read the metadata values and therefore you lose them. More precise, if you open the document for example in Excel you will see in your Document Information Panel (DIP) that the metadata is stored (in the document), but you won’t see the metadata in SharePoint.

You have 2 different options to password protect an Office document, you can enter a “password to open” and/or a “password to modify“. The problem only occurs when you enter a “password to open”. If you use “password to modify” SharePoint will be able to read the metadata from the document.

SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available

Posted 20Nov09 by Erwin in General having 1 comment »

Microsoft announced the general availability for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx

At the PDC in n Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta:

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-4-beta-is-now-available/

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/

Bulk editing metadata in a Sharepoint Picture Library

Posted 18Aug09 by Erwin in End User having 6 comments »

One of our SharePoint users asked me if it was possible to select a range of multiple images in a SharePoint Picture Library and edit their metadata in one go?

In a Document library you can do this by using the “Edit in datasheet” option, in the datasheet  you can bulk edit the metadata, but for some reason the Picture Library doesn’t have that option.

But, if you have Access 2007 installed on your pc,  you can create an Access View which allows you to use Access 2007 to populate the metadata.

1. Go to your Picture Library and Create a new view

Bulk_Picture_Create_View

2. Choose Access View

Bulk_Picture_Access_View

3. Save the file somewhere

Bulk_Picture_Save_As

4. Datasheet is the best way to edit bulk data

Bulk_Picture_Datasheet

5. Edit your metadata, click in another record to save the changes

Bulk_Picture_Edit

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My name is Erwin Bastiaensen and I am a Software Architect from Belgium, with a huge interest in technology. Lately I have been involved in some Java projects and implementing, interfacing and extending a Sharepoint portal.

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