Category: SharePoint 2007
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SharePoint People Picker Error – Item cannot be more than 256 characters.
Had a colleague ask me the other day if there was a limit on the People Picker control in SharePoint. Reason being is that she had a Person field setup to accept multiple users and had a group that was constantly getting the error “Item cannot be more than 256 characters” when trying to enter…
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SharePoint Best Practices – Content Types
The other day I decided to start a power user best practice series. I started with site columns and now the next logical step is content types. I have found that many times experienced users don’t realise the importance of a properly setup content type. Because of this, they often are recreating the same data, having…
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SharePoint Best Practices – Site Columns
So today I am starting a new series on SharePoint Best Practices. This may seem like a fairly simple topic but, I have come to learn that it is an important one. I am not talking about best practices in setting up and configuring SharePoint or how to best develop a solution in SharePoint. I…
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Build Views on the Fly When Gathering Data from SharePoint
So recently at my client site we had a report that was running incredibly long. This was a while ago, so unfortunately I can’t remember the run time, but I believe it was greater than 12 hours. The report was pretty basic, just a determination of which documents were created within the month and an…
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Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) Reporting in SharePoint (Part 1): Web Analytic Reports
I have seen over time that new users have asked about reporting in SharePoint. Usually it is in a forum post which isn’t always the best place to provide an answer as the answer can be quite detailed, so I decided to do a write-up and if someone asks, I can direct them here instead…