The SharePoint Hive

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
Introduction
Now after the SharePoint Conference 2009 is over, we’re free to publish and disclose a lot of content around SharePoint 2010.
The first thing that I’ll do is to link to these awesome Hands-On-La … (More)
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Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
Introduction
Normally I don’t make link-posts like this one, but it is too good to miss out on. My main man and friend Andrew Connell (AC) have created a new utility for SharePoint 2010 which is essentially … (More)
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I’m using a mailto: link on my website so users can contact me.

However i’ve had 2 people say this week that they’ve emailed me and it hasn’t reached me. I know that one of them is a hotmail user and sent the email through the web browser by copying the shortcut.

Having googled I’ve noticed that hotmail does not like mailto tags very much and i’ve seen many sites showing how individuals how they can make changes to their own settings to remedy this.

What i’m wondering though is, is there a way that I can either have a piece of code that removes the mailto for users who right click to get the shortcut?

Before anyone mentions creating a form so people can just type their message in there, i’m using sharepoint to make my website (not my choice it was forced upon me) and it won’t let you just put regular forms in like you would on a normal site you have to use loads of complicated widgets and i’m not that talented (i’m only just learning how to use it and I don’t want to break it as it’s not my site to break, it’s my employers)

Fingers crossed someone knows an answer to this as it’s frazzling my brain!
Thanks Ron,

That’s exactly the coding I have already. I just wondered if there was a way of somehow removing the mailto: from the link that those who right click for shortcut get and keeping it for those that have a default email program set up.

Chosen Answer:

If they right click to get the shortcut link, that includes the “mailto:” portion and will not work. If the link is correct, then their local email program will open with your email address already in the “To:” field. If they have no local default email program, they need one, but it may open the web mail program they have to log into.

Email Me

Ron
by: Mr. Tacki
on: 14th April 11

I’ve got a link in my SharePoint site that absolutely will not style with CSS. The Link is Located under Site Settings > People and Groups and appears after the text “Use this group to grant people contribute permissions to the SharePoint site:”. The link is some color of purple that is referenced nowhere in my master page, my css, or the core css. Using IE8′s developer tools, I can look at all CSS having an effect on the link, and that shows that the link’s color should be FFFFFF which…is not purple. Is there anyone out there that has experienced this same problem and could maybe give me a point in the proper direction to correct this?

Chosen Answer:

If the link has it’s own style property, then those styles will over write your CSS file’s style rules. If the link is automatically generated, then you are out of luck. Sorrry. Otherwise, just remove the style property, and its contents. Those are your two options. If you post a link to your site, or send it to me, I can take a closer look.

Feel free to contact me, through my profile page, if you have any follow up questions.

Cheers,

Gitlez
by: Gitlez
on: 6th March 11

I am creating a website for my band and I would like to attach files for their listening and analysis assignments. So far I have been able to add pictures and worksheets, but the audio files will not attach.

I am fairly new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone could give me detailed instructions on how to do this, or perhaps a link to a manual that I can read while trying to figure this out, I’d appreciate it. My IT person was supposed to come down and help me 2 weeks ago and I’m tired of waitingg for him.

Chosen Answer:

Try using a Page Viewer web part. This is one of the few ways that multimedia can be added to a SharePoint web site.

FYI – it’s also the ways to add swf files to a SharePoint site – the file has to be added as a web page (not a file) in the Page Viewer web part for it to work.
by: brisray
on: 9th February 11

I am using sharepoint 2007

I put this code in the CSS

a:link {
text-decoration: none;

and the link become non-underline. If i give it a colour, all the links in my whole website will have that colour. I don’t want it this way.

How do i set it such that all the links are in the default colour (meaning whatever colour i set when i type the words)?
i found the answer

the code is below

a:link {
color:inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}

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by:
on: 1st January 70

I am trying to Create a website for work, and I would like to use CSS to change the layout of the page, and appearance, but I can not find out how to link my CSS script to Sharepoint. if anyone knows anything about CSS and Sharepoint 2010, can you please help me? thank you in advance.

Chosen Answer:

Use should use SharePoint Designer. This utility makes it incredibly easy. Here is a Google thread that you can peruse, but most (in spite of the search terms) discuss using PowerPoint to create a theme and import that theme into SharePoint. The thread:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=import+CSS+layout+into+SharePoint+2010&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Best of luck.
by: mnmboy
on: 30th August 10

We will soon be updating our enterprise to a backend of servers that include 3x Server 2008 R2 boxes. One acting as AD, DNS, DHCP, and WDS server, that we will promoted from our existing 03 box. One acting as a SAN running SANMelody with tiered storage. And one acting as our HyperV, AppV box for legacy server virtualization and App pushing. This infrastructure will talk to 500 machines with a gigabit link between 4 IDFs and 1 MDF over 5 buildings. I want to know if I’m missing something, for example sharepoint, or another MS service that would be beneficial. Hopefully you can help. If anythings glaringly obvious, let me know. Much appreciated.

Chosen Answer:

As it is, it looks pretty good.
by: Cher
on: 28th June 10

I can’t seem to log in to my college account thing. it was working fine this morning. after i enter my info it says “an unexpected error has occurred” and it provides a link for troubleshooting with Windows Sharepoint Services. I don’t even know what Windows sharepoint services is!!

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by:
on: 1st January 70