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Technical / June 8, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Having one of the following two problems? 1) Grouped views not working properly when you’ve selected a BCS / External data field as the group field 2) Column filtering not working properly for BCS / external data fields But these problems seem to be inconsistent, some records work and others don’t? Chances might be that
Technical / June 7, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today we ran into a weird problem. People reported not having access to their personal documents library on their MySite. So I checked, the Personal Documents library ACL was empty for that particular user. But for other users, I noticed where were some entried, just not their own user account and always Limited rights (which
Technical / June 6, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
One of our environments is one that was upgraded from MOSS 2007. In that transition, BDC changed to BCS and we didn’t really take care of that because we weren’t using BDC that much. One of the lists got migrated and stopped working, but because it was in a dark alley on our SharePoint site,
Technical / June 4, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I spent quite some time today on a question I was asked. In an existing solution, we added a custom action (button) to the standard menu (the dropdown menu on your account name in the right upper corner of a site). This button was a “Add site to favorites” custom solution. The request was: can
Technical / June 1, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
There seems to be some mystery around a technique called form digest. Mainly because developers will get errors complaining about an invalid security state of their request. I’ll try to explain.
Technical / May 18, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Of course every server in your farm should be equipped with antivirus. But without properly configuring your antivirus program, it could become a serious danger to the performance of your SharePoint farm. There are some exclusions you can or rather should make to make sure that antivirus won’t come in the way of performance. To
Technical / April 27, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Ok, so we struggled with a little problem which could be a big problem if you don’t know where to look. Imagine you’ve got your site with a couple of lists, but list items aren’t indexed by the search engine. What to do? This post is meant as a quick guide on stuff you should
Technical / April 19, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
This probably is the last post in my latest BCS series for now, since our project is almost finished 🙂 One of the last hurdles I had to take was an error which only occured in our production environment for some reason (I guess production and test still aren’t similar enough). It occurred when trying