Robin's SharePoint and Website musings

SharePoint Resource Center | InformIT 35% off SharePoint 2013 books and a change to win one for free!

A New Concept in SharePoint Collaboration: Self-Publishing Books - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com Looking forward to the release of this book. Have my pre-release copy already purchased.

Since I seem to have trouble remembering how to do this every time I create a new form, I am writing up the steps here to set the UserID and Supervisor values in an InfoPath form from the User Profiles. Here's what we're trying to do :   So how do we accomplish this? First, we need to create the data connection to the User Profiles Service. In the form, create a new Data Connection.  This Data Connection will Receive Data from a Soap Service .   You'll use something similar to this: http://YourWebServiceDomain/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx?WSDL (put in your server's URL for the YourWebServiceDomain). Select the GetUserProfilebyName operation. Click Next twice and Finish  

Tips and Tricks: Opening a Hidden Web Part - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com Steps to finding and deleting a hidden web part in MOSS 2007

Had a user today who was experiencing issues submitting an InfoPath form.  The original set of error messages made me assume that SharePoint was not set as Local Intranet site (which it wasn't).  So I set SharePoint as the local intranet site,  updated the user's desktop icon shortcut (to use the https version of the site).  And thought, okay, problem solved.  Alas and alack, not so! The user entered a form went to submit it and got a different set of error messages. (Unfortunately I didn't think to screenshot the errors and send them to myself so I don't have the exact wording for any of the errors.)  The basic message the second time was InfoPath cannot submit the form.  I've seen variations of this error before, so I started looking at Compatibility View, and Add-ons.  Well, I found the user had IE10 which we recommend our users NOT install as there are known compatibility issues with IE10 and SharePoint 2007 as well as some of our other inte...

Manage employee acknowledgement forms with DocRead and SharePoint Find out more about an easy way to manage employee acknowledgement forms with Coallboris' DocRead and your SharePoint environment!  If you have a heard time verifying that employees have read mandatory documents or viewed mandatory training, this is your solution!

Need to know which SharePoint 2013 web template to use?  Thanks, Jasjit Chopra, for the blog post: http://www.funwithsharepoint.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2