Compiling audiences in SharePoint 2010

Compiling audiences from code has always been a bit troublesome to do. The things you need aren’t that well documented so it takes some Googling to get everything into place. But for some reason, the articles I found didn’t seem to work in my SharePoint 2010 installation. The result of my job was always 4:

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Creating and editing documents online: SkyDrive

A lot of buzz was generated this week as Google announced Google Cloud Connect. A plugin which you can install on you Office equipped computer to save documents to Google Docs. Wow, what a revelation! Or is it? I’ve been using Microsoft SkyDrive for a while now, which originated out of Office Live! SkyDrive is

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I’m going Dutch!

Untill now, I’ve written all my blog posts in English. That’s because this blog was used for tech stuff (or actually jsiegmund.wordpress.com was the place for that) and I wrote my social stuff elsewhere. But because it’s all me and I wanted people to find me and my stories more easily, I decided I needed

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Welcome to my new 2011 blog!

Following up on http://wp.me/p6iHx-3N, welcome to the new location of my blog! I moved my blog to my personal webspace. Needed to install some plugins and you cannot do that for a wordpress.com site. So in 2011 my blog will remain to exist at: http://blog.repsaj.nl. I’ve exported / imported all posts so nothing is lost.

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SP2010: December cumulative update

I guess some Microsoft employees we’re still busy ending the year 2010. On december 31, the latest cumulative update was released for SharePoint 2010. There are lot’s of bugfixes in it once more, but this time one of mine is included! I posted this quite a while back on the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010customization/thread/d38e74a1-ea49-4197-a70f-0e5b28743553. The bug

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My blog in 2010

Great service at WordPress! I received an e-mail with my blog stats for 2010. I wanted to share those with you, since my readers are responsible for those stats 🙂 For 2011, I intend to up the number of articles and content, because I’ve labeled 2011 as my SharePoint year. SharePoint 2010 will get more

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SP2010: Setting BCS column and related fields

I’ve been struggling for a while to programmatically set BCS columns. Setting the column itself isn’t that hard, but it’s getting all the related fields to show data too that’s a challenge. There seems to be no out of the box method to do this, so I’ve created one myself. Without further ado, let’s get

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SP2010: Fixing Javascript / Ribbon errors

I had some users complaining about their Ribbon not working. When looking more closely, SharePoint was generating lot’s of JavaScript errors in IE8. I had no clue why (still don’t have really), but here are two solutions which you can try to fix this problem: In web.config, make sure the following section exists: <system.web.extensions> <scripting>

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Twitter & Social media

It’s been a while since my last blog post, mostly due to a well deserved holiday (if I may say so). So now I’m back and I wanted to get your attention for two things. First, I’m on Twitter these days. Since you can’t beat the social revolution, you might as well join ’em right!?

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