SharePoint 2010

The 3th edition of the free DIWUG SharePoint magazine is out, you can download it here, this time there is an article about PowerShell and SharePoint in there, and its all written by me. Pretty proud on that one.

With the new SharePoint Designer creating reusable workflows has become fairly easy,however deploying them seems to be a bit harder, lets say you create a reusable workflow that you use globally on all your content types, it seems it still has to be deployed to each list you use it in. ...

So always nice to update a few minor things on a pagelayout using SharePoint Designer, especially if it has to be done quick, however this week I spend the first hour cursing why SPD wouldn’t allow me to edit my pagelayout. Seems to be that opening it, checking it out isn’t enough. ...

Last few days I saw quite a few forum posts about custom ribbon actions that where created but where not working as expected, or not updated the second time they got deployed (see this and this post). Now assuming you have the same issue; there are two things you need to check: ...

Adding the new note board to your page layouts seems like a nice way to allow comments on news items and provide a some more social element within your site, however in terms of configuration, you don’t want to have to add the note board to each page you created, and add it to a page layout. ...

After creating my first ribbon control (blogged about that in this post), I wanted to learn a bit more about the client object model in SharePoint 2010. So due to that I decided to make a new ribbon button that would allow me to publish multiple items, using the Client Object model (allowing you to use the solution as a sandboxed solution. ...

Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 to a SharePoint 2010 environment and all options you have is something that is handled quite well on the web, personally i love this post on how to do it, but there are several other posts out there making it pretty easy. However I ran into a ‘small’ bug upgrading. ...

One of the new features in SharePoint 2010 are the so called DocumentSets, a sort of folders-like option that allows you to manage multiple documents as they where a set, setting global metadata or capturing versions and downloading multiple documents. Since those options sounds pretty cool I recon it’s going to be a much used option within SharePoint 2010, however once you created a DocumentSet moving it around can be pretty hard. ...

Creating custom ribbon commands is all inline with the SharePoint User Experience, and thus something you should keep in mind whenever you are developing for SharePoint 2010. However I found myself in need of creating a new group within an existing tab and stumbled upon the next MSDN article, however a minor detail is that you cannot add a CommandUIHanlder without a CommandAction. ...