Author: hightechdave

NavigateUrl in SharePoint master pages

If you find that you want your site logo link to go elsewhere you adjust the NavigateUrl property in your SPLinkButton reference. In my case I wanted it to go to the root of the sub site, not the site collection. NavigateUrl=”~sitecollection/” became NavigateUrl=”~site/”

Visual Corruption in VMWare 5 when using Office 2013 applications

Visual corruption got you down?  Well there are two ways to bring sanity to using your VM. To work around this issue, either disable 3D acceleration for the virtual machine, or disable hardware acceleration in the particular Microsoft Office 2013 application. To disable 3D acceleration in a Windows 7 or 8 virtual machine: Shut down… Continue reading Visual Corruption in VMWare 5 when using Office 2013 applications

SharePoint Workflow completes with status ‘Stopped’

I recently ran into a problem in WSS3 with emails not firing when folks registered for an online course.  The workflow would inconsistently end with the status of ‘stopped’.  However, every time I would run it things went through without a problem.  After some research I stumbled upon a great post that seems to have… Continue reading SharePoint Workflow completes with status ‘Stopped’

Looking for a few good developers

We are looking to hire (long-term contract) several client-side or front end developers to join our team in an in-house studio environment. We work on sites large and small and deploy in a SharePoint environment with a combination of pure Javascript, jQuery, JSON, XSLT, CSS, and SharePoint webparts. We value all experience related to web/Sharepoint… Continue reading Looking for a few good developers

Parsing the Sharepoint Site Actions menu with jQuery

On recent Sharepoint (WSS3) sites I use jQuery extensively.  One of the things I often do is to remove the default Site Actions menu and draw those same links at the bottom of each page in the site.  I had found a way to successfully parse the Site Actions menu using some trickery: $(‘#siteactions ie\\:menuitem’).each(function(){… Continue reading Parsing the Sharepoint Site Actions menu with jQuery

Stop the annoying Adobe Dreamweaver prompt for Alt field text

Yes, I still use image maps.  They are nifty, and don’t require Flash to pull off things like interactive maps.  But suppose you are trying to add 70ish links to an image map and Dreamweaver insists on prompting you EVERY SINGLE TIME to add an ALT tag.  Before you slit your wrists or kill your… Continue reading Stop the annoying Adobe Dreamweaver prompt for Alt field text